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Tuesday, June 19, 2012

Public Health Policy Change Series Webinar: Healthy Kids, Healthy Child Care (Webinar)
Tuesday, June 19, 2012 (10:00AM - 11:00AM)
The Healthy Kids, Healthy Child Care Webinar will cover the current science, as well as both intervention and policy strategies to promote healthy eating and physical activity in the child care setting. Presenters will cover the current state of the research, including opportunities for improvement and research gaps. In addition, presenters will outline existing intervention-based resources and promising interventions being used around the country. Finally, presenters will analyze state and local approaches to policy change within the child care setting.

Speakers:
  • Sara Benjamin Neelon, PhD, MPH, RD, Department of Community and Family Medicine, Duke University Medical Center & Duke Global Health Institute
  • Elizabeth Walker, Senior Director, Health Improvement, The Association of State and Territorial Health Officials
  • Natasha Frost, Staff Attorney, Public Health Law Center
Moderator:
  • Kimberly F. Stitzel, MS, RD, Vice-President, Nutrition and Obesity Strategies, Consumer Health, American Heart Association National Center

Please register to attend this webinar.
Food Marketing 101: Webinar
Tuesday, June 19, 2012 (12:30PM - 1:00PM)
The need to limit unhealthy food marketing to children has never been more urgent. Food companies spend $2 billion annually to reach children through television, the Internet, mobile phones, product placement in movies and television, toys, and anywhere else a logo or product image can be shown. Aggressive, widespread food marketing undermines parents' attempts to feed their children healthfully.

In this webinar, presenters will discuss different types of food marketing to children, policy options for dealing with marketing, evidence linking food marketing with children's poor diets and health, and the effectiveness of industry self-regulation.

Speakers:

  • Samantha Graff, JD (Moderator), Director of Legal Research, NPLAN, a project of ChangeLab Solutions
  • Margo Wootan, DSc, Director of Nutrition Policy, Center for Science in the Public Interest
  • Mary Story, PhD, RD, Professor and Senior Associate Dean, University of Minnesota School of Public Health


Register here.

 

This webinar series is sponsored by the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO), the Food Marketing Workgroup, and the National Policy & Legal Analysis Network to Prevent Childhood Obesity (NPLAN), a project of ChangeLab Solutions.