Agenda
| Airlie Centera Warrenton, VA Wednesday, April 1, 2009 6:45–7:30 p.m. |
Welcome Remarks Mary Story Professor, University of Minnesota School of Public Health; and Director, Healthy Eating Research, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Michael Hamm C. S. Mott Professor of Sustainable Agriculture, Michigan State University Linda Jo Doctor Program Director, W.K. Kellogg Foundation Overview of Conference Goals Mary Story and Michael Hamm A Healthy Food System—What Would It Look Like? Michael Hamm |
| Thursday, April 2, 2009 8:30–8:45 a.m. |
Welcome and Orientation to the Conference Federal Room, Airlie House Mary Story and Michael Hamm |
| 8:45–9:15 a.m. | Today's Food System—How Healthy Does it Look? Presenter: David Wallinga Director, Food and Health Program, Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy |
| 9:15–10:15 a.m. | Improving the Food System Along the Food Supply Chain: Five Views, Part 1 Moderator: Roni Neff Research Director, Center for a Livable Future, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Five speakers will give a broad overview of their perspectives on the food system and health. What do we know? What don't we know that we need to know? 1. Public Health Presenter: Robert Lawrence Professor of Environmental Health Sciences and Director of Center for a Livable Future, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health 2. Sustainable Agriculture Presenter: Mary Jo Forbord Executive Director, Sustainable Farming Association of Minnesota |
| 10:45 a.m.–12:15 p.m. | Improving the Food System Along the Food Supply Chain: Five Views, Part 2 3. Health Care Presenter: Jamie Harvie Executive Director, Institute for a Sustainable Future 4. Food Industry Presenter: Arlin S. Wasserman Vice President, Corporate Citizenship, Sodexo 5. Community Food System Presenter: Hank Herrera Project Manager, HOPE Collaborative |
| 1:30–2:15 p.m. | Leveraging the Food Supply Chain to Promote Healthy Diets and Prevent Obesity Presenter: Corinna Hawkes, Freelance Consultant |
| 2:15–3:15 p.m. | Building the Good Food “Toolkit,” Part 1 Moderator: JoAnne Berkenkamp Program Director, Local Foods, Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy This broadly framed, interdisciplinary session examines the concept of “Good Food”—food that is healthy, fair, affordable and “green.” Five scholars will discuss their approaches to the research questions within a context of good food as well as their perspectives on building a better toolkit for improving the food system. The session will end with a discussion of systems-based approaches. 1. Healthy Speaker: Daryll Ray Director, Agricultural Policy Analysis Center, the University of Tennessee What would it take for us to produce, process and distribute a healthy diet for all Americans and US residents that blends local, national, and global food supplies into a locally integrated food system? How could this impact health disparities across the country? What types of researchers need to be at the table? How do they need to interact with communities to ensure research utility? 2. Fair Speaker: Refugio Rochin Professor Emeritus, Agricultural Economics & Chicana/o Studies, University of California, Davis and Santa Cruz What do we know about cost and infrastructure issues in production, processing, and distribution that impact a living wage across the food system? How different would our food and health systems look if there were a living wage across the industries? What public and private policy changes might be needed? What types of researchers need to be at the table? How do they need to interact with communities to ensure research utility? What are the legal possibilities right now and what might be done? |
| 3:30–5:05 p.m. | Building the Good Food “Toolkit,” Part 2 3. Affordable Speaker: Roland Sturm Senior Economist, RAND What would it take to allow access for everyone to a healthy diet that is as local as feasible? What do we know about potential ways to change pricing; eg, taxes on inputs or finished products? What public and private policy changes might be needed? What types of researchers need to be at the table? How do they need to interact with communities to ensure research utility? 4. Green Speaker: Gail Feenstra Food Systems Analyst, UC Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program/Agricultural Sustainability Institute, University of California, Davis Can we develop a food system to feed 8 billion people that is sustainable? How do we balance production across local-national-global settings? What public and private policy changes might be needed? What do we know about climate change and our food system? What types of researchers need to be at the table? How do they need to interact with communities to ensure research utility? 5. Systems-Based Speaker: Diane Finegood Professor, Simon Fraser University How will utilization of a systems approach move us further, faster? How will it help us to identify public and private policy changes that might be needed? What types of researchers need to be at the table? How do they need to interact with communities to ensure research utility? |
| Friday, April 3, 2009 8:30–10:00 a.m. |
Small Group Breakout Sessions Conference participants will divide into six breakout sessions for a period of 1.5 h. The topics will be (1) Healthy, (2) Fair, (3) Affordable, (4) Green, (5) Health Care, and (6) Mobilizing Change. Group Charge: 1. What is the sufficiency of the knowledge base as grounds for policy change—what do we know now? Is this research being applied? 2. What are the policy-relevant research questions we need answered within the next 3–5 years in order to develop healthier food environments? |
| 10:20–11:50 a.m. | Recommendations From Small Groups and Group Discussion Moderator: Michael Hamm Small groups report |
| 11:50 a.m.–12:00 p.m. | Next Steps Mary Story and Michael Hamm |
| 12:00 p.m. | Conference Adjourns |