Dr. Nirav Shah speaks on hunger at naming ceremony for Midcoast food warehouse [Video]

The Mid Coast Hunger Prevention Program revealed a new name for its warehouse and administrative building on Thursday with a speech from former Maine and US public health official Dr. Nirav Shah.

MCHPP’s Brunswick Landing facility was named the Wright Center for Food Security, after donor Tom Wright, whose contribution allowed the organization to officially purchase the facility last year.

Speakers at Thursday’s event touched on the importance of food security programs amid a growing cost of living and federal cuts that have threatened to handicap food banks and other organizations that aid underserved populations.

“If we’re not able to feed people, then we really have to question what it means to have a community,” Shah said.

Shah,who now works as a visiting professor at Colby College in Waterville, became the face of the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention during the COVID-19 pandemic and went on to become …