The Food and Nutrition section invites abstracts in the areas of 'public health nutrition' and 'nutrition and physical activity'. The annual meeting theme is "Politics, Policy, and Public Health" and will be held November 3-7, 2007 in Washington, DC. Abstracts related to the meeting theme, outstanding student abstracts, and abstracts in the following areas will be given priority for inclusion in the program:
- Physical Activity in Understudied Populations
- WHO Growth Standards: Background and Rationale for Developing a New International Growth Standard for Infants and Young Children
- A Comprehensive Approach to Obesity Prevention by an Integrated Health Care Delivery System: Kaiser Permanente's Health Eating Active Living Initiatives
- Agnes Higgins Award Lecture
- Approaches to Improve Nutrition in School Settings (Jointly-organized by the Food and Nutrition, Epidemiology, & School Health Education and Services Sections)
- Breastfeeding Programs and Evaluation
- Bugs, Drugs, and Flu: Human Health Impacts of Intensive Animal Agriculture (jointly organized by the Environment and Food & Nutrition Sections)
- Community Approaches to Breastfeeding
- Community Innovations for Sustainable Food Systems (jointly-organized by the Food and Nutrition & Environment Sections)
- Community-based Approaches to Address Disparities in Food and Activity Environments (jointly-organized by the Food and Nutrition & Environment Sections)
- Community-based Approaches to Address Disparities in Food and Activity Environments (jointly-organized by the Food and Nutrition & Environment Sections) part 2
- Community-based Physical Activity Interventions: The Healthy Eating Active Communities Initiative (HEAC)
- Consumer/Retail Food Safety Issues
- Environmental and Policy Approaches to Promoting Physical Activity
- Epidemiolgy Approaches to Examine Population Health (jointly sponsored by the Food and Nutrition & Epidemiology Sections)
- F&N 2008 Meeting Planning Session
- F&N Section Council Meeting
- F&N Section Meeting Awards Reception
- Farm Bill Renewal: Going Forward with Nutrition and Food Policy Outcomes
- Featured Project Session: Healthy Eating, Active Communities: A Multi-sectoral Approach to Improving Food and Physical Activity Environments in Communities
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- Food & Nutrition Section Meeting
- Food System Design to Ensure Nutritional Health
- Implementing the IOM Report on Nutrition Standards for Foods at Schools: Joint SHES & FN Session
- Improving the School Nutrition Environment: Joint SHES & FN Session
- Infant Feeding and Health: First Results from the Infant Feeding Practices Study II
- Interdisciplinary collaborations to prevent obesity and chronic disease
- March of Dimes Agnes Higgins Award Lecture and Reception
- Marketing To Children
- Marketing To Children
- Modeling Techniques for Health Outcomes Research
- Nutrition in Schools (jointly-organized by the Food and Nutrition & School Health and Education Sections)
- Obesity and Physical Activity Posters: Joint SHES & FN Session
- Obesity: Prevalence and Risk Factors (Jointly-organized by the Epidemiology & Food and Nutrition Sections)
- Physical Activity Special Interest Group Meeting
- Physical Activity: Current Trends and School Health: Joint SHES & FN Session
- Poster Session I: The Use of Technology to Improve Public Health
- Poster Session II: Physical Activity and Nutrition Issues
- Poster Session III: Select Nutrition Policy Issues
- Poster Session IV: Various Issues on Health and Nutrition
- Poster Session V: Nutrition in Schools (Jointly-organized with the Food and Nutrition & School Health Education and Services Sections)
- Public Health and Aging: Promoting Healthy Communities for Healthy Aging
- Research on the Limited Availability of Fruits and Vegetables in the Low Income Population
- School Wellness Posters: Joint SHES & FN Session
- Special Annual Statistical Methodology Session: Accounting for Confounding in Observational Studies
- State Policy Action for School Health and Wellness: Joint SHES & FN Session
- Sustainable Seafood: Optimizing Health and the Environment (jointly organized by the Environment and Food & Nutrition Sections)
- The Common Ground of Food, Nutrition, and Ecological Health (jointly organized by the Environment and Food & Nutrition Sections)
- The School Nutrition Dietary Assessment Study (jointly-organized by the Food and Nutrition & School Health and Education Sections)
- Using Innovative Technologies to Increase Access to Nutrition and Health Education/Promotion
- Value Enhanced Nutrition Assessment (VENA) in WIC: Creating New Policy and Guidance to Maximize WIC’s Role as a Premier Public Health Nutrition Program
- WCRF-AICR 2nd Report on Food, Nutrition, Physical Activity and the Prevention of Cancer: A Global Perspective
Preference will be given to abstracts presenting program design/methodology, scientific research, and program evaluation results. An award will be presented for the student abstract receiving the highest score from reviewers. The Food & Nutrition Section also seeks innovative technology-based presentations (interactive phone, internet, mass media, film and theater) that can utilize the Film and Technology Theater.
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Program Planner Contact Information:
Sibylle Kranz, PhD, RD
Nutritional Sciences
Pennsylvania State University
5 G Henderson Bldg
University Park, PA 16802
Phone: 814-865-2138
Fax: 814-863-6103
sxk72@psu.edu
and
Janice Adams-King, RN, MS
OPAEO/FSES
USDA/FSIS
George Washington Carver Center
5601 Sunnyside Avenue, L-290
Beltsville, MD 20705
Phone: 301-504-6754
Fax: 301-504-0203
janice.adams-king@fsis.usda.gov
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