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Food and Nutrition

NOTE: Sessions listed in italics have been organized by another section, SPIG, or caucus but are endorsed by Food and Nutrition.


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Monday, November 05, 2007

8:30 AM-10:00 AM Mon
   3030.0Community Innovations for Sustainable Food Systems (jointly-organized by the Food and Nutrition & Environment Sections) (Oral)
   3031.0Marketing To Children (Oral)
10:30 AM-12:00 PM Mon
   3121.0Nutrition in Schools (jointly-organized by the Food and Nutrition & School Health and Education Sections) (Oral)
   3122.0Community-based Approaches to Address Disparities in Food and Activity Environments (jointly-organized by the Food and Nutrition & Environment Sections) (Oral)
   3141.0 WHO Growth Standards: Background and Rationale for Developing a New International Growth Standard for Infants and Young Children (Oral)
12:30 PM-1:30 PM Mon
   3170.0Poster Session I: The Use of Technology to Improve Public Health (Poster)
   3171.0Poster Session II: Physical Activity and Nutrition Issues (Poster)
   3172.0Poster Session III: Select Nutrition Policy Issues (Poster)
   3173.0Poster Session IV: Various Issues on Health and Nutrition (Poster)
   3173.1Poster Session V: Nutrition in Schools (Jointly-organized with the Food and Nutrition & School Health Education and Services Sections) (Poster)
12:30 PM-2:00 PM Mon
   3219.0Community-based Approaches to Address Disparities in Food and Activity Environments (jointly-organized by the Food and Nutrition & Environment Sections) part 2 (Oral)
2:30 PM-4:00 PM Mon
   3317.0Obesity: Prevalence and Risk Factors (Jointly-organized by the Epidemiology & Food and Nutrition Sections) (Oral)
   3320.0 Physical Activity in Understudied Populations (Oral)
   3320.1Approaches to Improve Nutrition in School Settings (Jointly-organized by the Food and Nutrition, Epidemiology, & School Health Education and Services Sections) (Oral)
4:30 PM-6:00 PM Mon
   3409.0Environmental and Policy Approaches to Promoting Physical Activity (Oral)
   3422.0Infant Feeding and Health: First Results from the Infant Feeding Practices Study II (Oral)
6:30 PM-8:30 PM Mon
   3437.0March of Dimes Agnes Higgins Award Lecture and Reception (Oral)

Tuesday, November 06, 2007

8:30 AM-10:00 AM Tue
   4020.0Bugs, Drugs, and Flu: Human Health Impacts of Intensive Animal Agriculture (jointly organized by the Environment and Food & Nutrition Sections) (Oral)
   4028.0WCRF-AICR 2nd Report on Food, Nutrition, Physical Activity and the Prevention of Cancer: A Global Perspective (Oral)
   4029.0A Comprehensive Approach to Obesity Prevention by an Integrated Health Care Delivery System: Kaiser Permanente's Health Eating Active Living Initiatives (Oral)
   4052.0Breastfeeding Programs and Evaluation (Oral)
12:30 PM-2:00 PM Tue
   4125.1The Common Ground of Food, Nutrition, and Ecological Health (jointly organized by the Environment and Food & Nutrition Sections) (Oral)
   4132.0Value Enhanced Nutrition Assessment (VENA) in WIC: Creating New Policy and Guidance to Maximize WIC’s Role as a Premier Public Health Nutrition Program (Oral)
   4133.0The School Nutrition Dietary Assessment Study (jointly-organized by the Food and Nutrition & School Health and Education Sections) (Oral)
2:30 PM-4:00 PM Tue
   4201.0Public Health and Aging: Promoting Healthy Communities for Healthy Aging (Oral)
   4222.0Using Innovative Technologies to Increase Access to Nutrition and Health Education/Promotion (Oral)
   4223.0Farm Bill Renewal: Going Forward with Nutrition and Food Policy Outcomes (Oral)
4:30 PM-5:30 PM Tue
   4271.0Community Approaches to Breastfeeding (Poster)
4:30 PM-6:00 PM Tue
   4303.0Sustainable Seafood: Optimizing Health and the Environment (jointly organized by the Environment and Food & Nutrition Sections) (Oral)
   4305.0Epidemiolgy Approaches to Examine Population Health (jointly sponsored by the Food and Nutrition & Epidemiology Sections) (Oral)
   4305.1Food System Design to Ensure Nutritional Health (Oral)
   4334.0Special Annual Statistical Methodology Session: Accounting for Confounding in Observational Studies (Oral)

Wednesday, November 07, 2007

8:30 AM-10:00 AM Wed
   5045.0Research on the Limited Availability of Fruits and Vegetables in the Low Income Population (Oral)
   5045.1Interdisciplinary collaborations to prevent obesity and chronic disease (Oral)
12:30 PM-2:00 PM Wed
   5097.0Featured Project Session: Healthy Eating, Active Communities: A Multi-sectoral Approach to Improving Food and Physical Activity Environments in Communities (Oral)
   5112.0Community-based Physical Activity Interventions: The Healthy Eating Active Communities Initiative (HEAC) (Oral)
2:30 PM-4:00 PM Wed
   5167.0Consumer/Retail Food Safety Issues (Oral)
   5202.0Modeling Techniques for Health Outcomes Research (Oral)

The 135th APHA Annual Meeting & Exposition (November 3-7, 2007) of APHA