Title: APHA Annual Meeting and Exposition

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Section/SPIG: Food and Nutrition

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  • Food and Nutrition Section Exhibit Summary

    • Submitted by Elvira Jarka 1/15/2004

    More than 2000 APHA members visited our booth and participated in our raffle drawing at the 131st Annual Meeting and Exposition Nov. 16-19, 2003 in San Francisco. We selected more than 40 winners over the four-day exhibit. We would like to recognize the following organizations and individuals that contributed items promoting California products: the Wine Institute, California Strawberry Commission, California Walnut Commission, California Olive Commission, Judy Wilson, Sheryl Lee and Charlene Sanders. A bookmark promoting our section and Web site was also distributed at the booth.

    Tracy Hillard was the highest scored student abstract, and her poster served as the background for the exhibit. Very positive feedback was received on her poster presentation. Thank you, Tracy - well done!

    I would like to take this opportunity to acknowledge the many volunteers who assisted in staffing the booth and promoting the Food and Nutrition Section: Dena Goldberg, Christopher Wirth, Deborah Sica, Katrina Holt, Estella West, Ellen Harris, Annie Carr, Paul Cotton, Charlene Sanders, Jay Hirschman and Patricia Risica. Our volunteers were enthusiastic and supportive of this activity. It was great fun working together and promoting our section to the general membership.

  • The 2004 Annual Meeting and Exposition


    • The 2004 annual meeting theme is "Public Health and the Environment" and will be held Nov. 6-10, 2004 in Washington, D.C. The Food and Nutrition Section will coordinate a session with the Environment Section on environmental contaminants in the food supply and co-sponsor a session with the Maternal and Child Health Section on breastfeeding. A new addition to our program will be a session in the technology theater featuring innovative, interactive applications related to nutrition.

    The Food and Nutrition section invites abstracts in the areas of "public health nutrition" and "nutrition and physical activity." Abstracts related to the meeting theme, outstanding student abstracts, and abstracts in the following areas will be given priority for inclusion in the program:

    • Access to fruits and vegetables through community based food systems;

    • Breastfeeding as a predictor of future health;

    • Changing the food environment through nutrition labeling of commercial/restaurant foods;

    • Changing the nutrition and physical activity environment through faith-based initiatives;

    • Effects of biotechnology on food, health and the environment;

    • Environmental contaminants in the food supply;

    • Environmental factors in the obesity crisis;

    • Federal, state or local policies and their implications for environmental issues affecting food safety and food security (e.g. intentional contamination of the food supply);

    • Food insecurity, federal food program participation, and health;

    • Impact of nutrition and physical activity on the social environment of older adults;

    • Influencing policy makers on nutrition and physical activity : state examples;
    • Interactive technology: applications related to nutrition, food security, food systems;

    • Issues in measuring dietary intake: DRIs, FFQs and portion size;

    • Policies affecting food choices in the school environment; and

    • Youth obesity epidemic: public health approaches that work.



    Preference will be given to abstracts presenting program design/methodology, scientific research and program evaluation results. We are encouraging students to submit abstracts. An award will be presented for the student abstract receiving the highest score from reviewers. We hope to see you at the annual meeting.