141st APHA Annual Meeting and Exposition

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Recorded Annual Meeting Presentations (RAMP) are now available for purchase.
Only $90 for presenters, $140 for registered attendees and $200 for non-attendees.

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Farm bill conservation programs and its effect on public health and local food systems


Tuesday, November 5, 2013 : 10:50 a.m. - 11:10 a.m.

Rebecca A. Klein, MS, Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD
     
The presenter will provide an overview of the Farm Bill's conservation programs and their potential impacts on overall public health. Depending on whether or not Congress completes a full five-year Farm Bill reauthorization before the APHA meeting in November, Becca will discuss where conservation programs may head and how to begin advocating for a stronger more equitable 2017 Farm Bill. This session will focus directly on how the Farm Bill touches more areas of public health than many currently realize. The presenter discuss the way future partnerships around various aspects of the farm bill and public health will strengthen overall grassroots advocacy and allow for a more equitable and fair Farm Bill in the future. Following the presentation, the audience will be able to identify opportunities for urban and rural communities to join together and advocate for a healthier Farm Bill that will provide better health to farmers, farmworkers and communities.

Learning Areas:

Advocacy for health and health education
Public health or related public policy

Learning Objectives:
Explain occupational health aspects of the current Farm Bill and how program cuts would impact farmworkers. Identify opportunities for urban and rural communities to join together and advocate for a healthier Farm Bill that will provide better health to farmworkers and communities. Describe how a coalition of allies from various public health backgrounds including occupational and environmental health to further future advocacy around a reformed Farm Bill.

Keyword(s): Food and Nutrition, Policy/Policy Development

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I have an MS in Food Policy and Applied Nutrition and have worked on the U.S. farm bill for the last 4 years. My position at the Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future involves translating for the public health community how food, agriculture and conservation policy impact public health.
Any relevant financial relationships? No

I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.

Back to: 4099.0: Ensuring Future Farm Bills Support Community Health: Lessons Learned from the Farm Bill