This panel will cover the broad issue of geographical food deserts, usually urban areas inhabited by mostly-poor people whose transportation and finances are limited, where food sellers are predominantly small stores that cannot stock a wide variety of fresh food items, and where full-service grocery stores hesitate to locate. Are there policies (such as those in zoning rules) that could be changed to enable oases in these food deserts? What impact does, for example, the addition of a full-service grocery store have on the health of the neighboring area? Panelists: Marice Ashe, JD, MPH, Founder and Director, Public Health Law & Policy. Rajiv Bhatia, MD, MPH, Director of Occupational and Environmental Health, San Francisco Department of Public Health. Amy Cohen, BA, MA, Director of Neighborhood Business Development, San Francisco Mayor's Office of Economic and Workforce Development. Regina Davis, BA, MA, Executive Director, San Francisco Housing Development Corporation. Nick Griffin, BA, MA, Senior Project Manager, Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Corporation. Moderator: Hilary Seligman, MD, MAS, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine, UCSF, and Center for Vulnerable Populations, San Francisco General Hospital. Less