APHA 140th Annual Meeting – San Francisco, CA, 2012
Food & Nutrition Section Sponsored Sessions
Note: Sessions in italics were organized by a different Section, SPIG, or caucus but are endorsed by the Food & Nutrition Section.
Saturday, October 27
5:30p - 7:30p
127.0 Food & Nutrition Section Meeting (open to all section members)
Sunday, October 29
2:00p - 5:00p
180.0 Food & Nutrition Section Meeting (open to all section members)
6:30p - 8:30p
229.0 Food & Nutrition Section Awards Reception
Monday, October 29
7:00a - 8:00a
242.0 Food & Nutrition Section Program Planning Meeting (open to all section members)
8:30a - 10:00a
3026.0 Invited Session - Healthier Communities through Sodium Reduction in Restaurants: Evaluation Approaches to Build Practice-Based Evidence (CHPPD)
3031.0 Food Economics and Public Health
3032.0 Measuring the Food Environment
3051.0 Innovations in Technology and Social Media to Assist Breastfeeding Success (MCH)
10:30a - 12:00p
3132.0 Regulating Competitive Foods in Schools: From Assessment to Policy
3133.0 Nutrition and Human Rights
3134.0 Keeping Our Food Safe from Pathogens
3178.0 Eat your heart out: Exploring the intersections of trade, food, and health (Trade & Health Forum)
12:30p - 1:30p (POSTER SESSIONS)
3185.0 Addressing Food Security, Food Access, and Nutritional Needs of Underserved and Disadvantaged Communities
3186.0 Children's Dietary Patterns and Nutrition in School and Child Care Settings
3187.0 Food Systems, Food Environments, and Food Policy
3188.0 Individual, Social, and Environmental Influences on Dietary Practices
12:30p - 2:00p
3234.0 Improving the Food and Beverage Environment in Schools and Child Care Settings
3244.0 Weight management in low resource communities: A lens across life stages
2:30p - 4:00p
3303.1 Nutrition and Aging (Aging & Public Health)
3334.0 Food Access and Food Security
3335.0 The Food Marketing Environment: Barriers and Opportunities to Action to Improve Children’s Health
4:30p - 6:00p
3417.0 Implementing social change that promotes or supports breastfeeding (BF Forum)
3424.0 Food deserts: Digging into the complexity of reducing food access disparities (Environment)
4:30p - 6:30p
3452.0 March of Dimes Agnes Higgins Award Lecture and Reception: Maternal nutrition and the outcome of pregnancy, success of lactation and infant growth: We’ve come a long way, with new challenges ahead
Tuesday, October 30
8:30a - 10:00a
4033.0 Innovations in Food/Nutrition Assistance and Emergency Food Programs
4034.0 Monitoring School Nutrition and Activity Policies Over Time: Identifying Gains, Losses, Stalls and Disparities
4034.1 Food, Fairness and Health I: Communicating the “Sweet Spot” Around Healthy Food, Fairness and Social Disparities
10:30a - 12:00p
4111.0 You Can Lead the Students to Water, but . . . the Current State of Drinking Water Availability and Intake in School and Child Care Settings
4112.0 Retail Strategies for Increasing Healthy Food Access and Purchasing
4117.0 Food Industry and the Law (Law)
12:30p - 2:00p
4216.0 Competitive Foods and Wellness Policies: Lessons Learned in Schools
4217.0 Corner Store and Home Makeovers in East Los Angeles: Family and Neighborhood Interventions to Reduce Heart Disease Risk
4225.0 International Issues in Nutrition & Malnutrition (International Health)
2:30p - 4:00p
4308.0 Fast Food Menus, Marketing, and Public Policy: Can We Get Children and Adolescents to Eat Healthy?
4309.0 Research, Practice, and Policy Around Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Consumption
4310.0 Connecting Farmers to Consumers of All Ages
4:30p - 6:00p
4399.0 Nutrition Education, Culinary, and Gardening Programs
4400.0 How Can We Balance Government Interventions, Market Forces and Individual Responsibility to Address the Obesity Epidemic?
4400.1 Sodium in School Meals and in the Local Food Environment
Wednesday, October 31
8:30a - 10:00a
5054.0 Integrating Nutrition into Medical and Dental Care and Training
5055.0 Food Industry Regulation: Labeling, Taxation and Litigation
5093.0 Changes in Dietary Guidance Over Time and Framing of Nutrition Messages for Diverse Audiences (Organized Jointly with Food & Nutrition) (PHEHP)
5100.0 Creating Nutrition Policy Change in Schools (SHES)
10:30a - 12:00p
5124.0 Improving the Retail Environment for Healthy Food: Examples from the Communities Putting Prevention to Work Initiative
5125.0 Evidence-based Obesity Prevention Strategies for Policy, Systems, and Environmental Changes
5125.1 Social Norms and Perceptions Related to Diet and Weight
12:30p - 2:00p
5179.0 Farmers' Markets and Their Impact on Community Food Access and Diet
5180.0 Maternal and Child Nutrition
5181.0 Food, Fairness and Health II: Occupy Agriculture – Corporate Power, Equity and the Food System
5208.0 Behavioral Innovations that Nudge Students to Eat Healthier Lunches (PHEHP)