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Online Program

2071.1
Food and Nutrition Research and Practice Poster Session

Sunday, November 1, 2015: 4:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Poster
This poster session will cover food and nutrition research and practices addressing a variety of audiences with multiple approaches and in diverse settings. Topics include: validation of food environments; wellness policies in the early care and education setting; sugar sweetened beverage policies; measurement of diet quality; school-based nutrition interventions; social marketing campaigns to increase fruit and vegetable purchase; among others.
Session Objectives: Describe one food and nutrition intervention for a selected audience and setting.

Board 1
Developing an accurate and cost-effective food environment validation method   
Caitlin Eicher Caspi, Sc.D and Robin Friebur, MPH
Board 2
Wellness policies as a tool for addressing nutrition in early care and education settings   
Humu Ibrahim, MPH, Jennifer Weber, MPH, RD and Kate Blackburn, MSW
Board 3
Assessing Support for Policies to Reduce Sugar Sweetened Beverages among Likely Voters in Hawaii   
Jay Maddock, PhD, Kailene Nihipali and Jessica Yamauchi, MA
Board 4
Grocery Shopping Destination Choice and Obesity: An Empirical Study of Urban Population in Bangkok, Thailand   
Tinapa Himathongkam, MPP
Board 5
Evaluating Diet Quality with HEI-2010 for a Diverse Sample of Low-income Mothers   
Cassandra Johnson, MSPH, Amy Roberts, PhD, Annie Hardison-Moody, PhD, Sinikka Elliott, PhD and Sarah Bowen, PhD
Board 6
SNEAKER©: Instituting Knowledge and Behavior Changes in NYC Elementary Schools   
Robyn Wiesel, MCHES, Titilayo Ologhobo, MPH, Sandra Goldsmith, MA, MS, RD, Alanna Perlstein, CHES and Laura Robbins, DSW
Board 7
Conditional Cash Transfer Facilitated to Improved Nutrition Outcomes for the Poor Children: A Piloting Experience in Bangladesh   
Khadija Bilkis, Ms. and Mohammad Shahjahan, MA
  
Board 8
Effect of household food insecurity on adolescents' behavior problems   
Jeniffer Hyunjin Kim, MSW and In Han Song, PhD
Board 9
United for Health: Community Based Strategies for Healthy, Culturally Appropriate Alternative Food Resources in Underserved Communities in Los Angeles   
Jacqueline Illum, MPL, David Sloane, PhD, Denise Payan, PhD, MPP, Gabriel Stover, MPA, MSPH, Lark Galloway-Gilliam, MPA and LaVonna B. Lewis, PhD, MPH
Board 10
Growing Healthy Roots: A social marketing campaign to increase the amount of fruit and vegetable purchases in the Hollygrove neighborhood in New Orleans, Louisiana   
Meg Skizim, MPH

See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.

Organized by: Food and Nutrition
Endorsed by: Breastfeeding Forum, Community Health Planning and Policy Development, APHA-Committee on Women's Rights

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