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Safe Routes Coaching Action Network Webinar
Feb 23 2010
Online

In this 60 minute webinar, Arthur Wendel (M.D., M.P.H., Healthy Community Design Initiative, The National Center for Environmental Health, CDC), will discuss how Safe Routes to Schools can provide a host of health benefits. Areas covered will include how walking or bicycling to school can increase physical activity and reduce air pollution, and will help create an infrastructure surrounding schools to support safe travel.

This webinar will start at 2:00 p.m. Eastern.

This webinar is part of the Safe Routes to School Coaching Action Network Webinar Series, developed by America Walks and the National Center for Safe Routes to School. Register here.

Fresh, Local Foods in Underserved Communities Webinar
Feb 23 2010
Online

The National Policy & Legal Analysis Network to Prevent Childhood Obesity (NPLAN) webinar will teach participants how to bring healthy foods to communities, outside of the traditional full-service grocery store. It will also provide mini-trainings on two of NPLAN’s model policy tools: Model Produce Cart Ordinance and Land Use Protections for Farmers’ Markets. Click here to register.

Bridging Food Systems and Public Health: A Closer Look at the JHEN Special Issue
Feb 23 2010
Online Webinar

"Food Systems and Public Health: Linkages to Achieve Healthier Diets and Healthier Communities," a recent double issue of the Journal of Hunger & Environmental Nutrition (JHEN), bridges food systems and public health by identifying successful research, programs and policies within agriculture, food, and health to advance a food system that supports healthier diets and reduced obesity.

Please join us for an overview of this issue, a discussion on the state of the science, and an exploration of policy opportunities to develop healthier diets and healthier communities. Featured speakers:

• David Wallinga, MD, MPA, Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy

• Michael Hamm, PhD, Michigan State University

• Angie Tagtow, MS, RD, LD, Consultant, IATP Food and Society Fellow, and HEN/ADA Managing Editor

Space is limited, please register here for this event.

 

Active Living Research Conference, San Diego, CA
Feb 9 2010 - Feb 11 2010
Annual Conference 2010

 

http://www.activelivingresearch.org/conference/2010
 

Economic Development Funds to Create Incentives for Healthy Retail
Feb 9 2010
Conference Call/Webinar

Planning for Healthy Places and the Healthy Corner Stores Network invite you to join this upcoming webinar.

When: Tuesday, February 9, 2010

Time: 12:30pm – 2:00pm (Pacific) 

This call will outline how economic development tools and financing mechanisms can be leveraged to work with small corner stores to increase the availability of healthy choices and create new business models for small food retail.  Presenters will discuss the opportunities and limitations of economic development tools and offer ideas for how partnerships with local economic development agencies and small store owners can deepen the impact and sustainability of their healthy corner store work. 
 
Speakers will include:

• Jennifer Stokes, Myrtle Ave Brooklyn Partnership, will provide an overview of the economic tools available to small store owners.

• Richard Keit, San Jose Redevelopment Agency, will discuss how façade improvement programs can be deployed to improve bottom line for food retailers and increase food access for residents.
 

• James Johnson Piett, Urbane Development, will offer recommendations for working with local government to match incentives to retailer needs.
 

• Brianna Almaguer Sandoval, The Food Trust will present on the forms of technical assistance needed to prepare food retailers to take advantage of economic development incentives by sharing lessons learned from the PA Fresh Food Financing Initiative.

To join the call register at webex.com.

Reauthorizing The Child Nutrition Act: What'll It Take To Fix The School Lunch Program?
Feb 1 2010
Dialogue4Health, Web Forum

 

When: Monday, February 1, 2010
Time: 10:00-11:30 a.m. Pacific

Dialogue4Health (D4H) and Les Dames d'Escoffier's Green Table's initiative present this interactive web forum on the future of the National School Lunch Program - the nation's largest meal program. In an unprecedented effort, health and culinary professionals will be joining forces so their voices can be heard by Congress as it considers the reauthorization of the Child Nutrition Act. Learn about the essential changes needed to make school lunches more nutritious; the complex factors influencing the country's largest nutrition program; and specific measures to improve school lunch program funding in order to provide healthy meals to our children. Register here.

Economics, Media, and Obesity Prevention
Jan 27 2010
Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity, New Haven, CT

The Rudd Center Seminar Series presents: 

 

Lisa M. Powell, Ph.D.

Senior Research Scientist, Institute for Health Research and Policy; Research Professor, Department of Economics; University of Illinois at Chicago.

 

For more information on this event or series please visit: Yale University Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity

2010 Built Environment Assessment Training Application Deadline
Jan 20 2010
Philadelphia, PA

 

Built Environment Assessment Training (BEAT) Institute -- Application

Dates: June 13-18, 2010 - Philadelphia, PA
 
The built environment, which is made up of the nutrition and physical activity environments, streetscapes, transportation environments, and everything in between, has been identified as a key determinant in the obesity epidemic.  Therefore, understanding how environmental and policy changes can inform efforts to control obesity, improve diet and physical activity, is a priority. A variety of measures now exist that allow researchers and practitioners to plan and evaluate changes to the built environment. The Built Environment Assessment Training (BEAT) Institute is designed to train participants to use these measures for research and practice.

For more information, see our website www.med.upenn.edu/nems/index.shtml or email us at edavi@med.upenn.edu.

Physical Inactivity: The Biggest Public Health Problem of the 21st Century
Jan 13 2010
Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity

 
Part of the Rudd Center Seminar Series:

Steven N. Blair, PED
Professor, Arnold School of Public Health, University of South Carolina

12:30 p.m.

For more information visit: www.yaleruddcenter.org/news.aspx?id=36

Complete the Streets! Using Street Design to Create Healthier Communities Webinar
Jan 12 2010

 

The National Policy & Legal Analysis Network to Prevent Childhood Obesity (NPLAN) Presents:

Complete the Streets! Using Street Design to Create Healthier Communities Webinar

January 12, 2010

1 p.m. Eastern
 

As part of our ongoing free webinar series, NPLAN will host a training on Complete Streets policies that can be implemented at the local or state levels. Participants will learn about :
 

  • The connection between Complete Streets principles and public health
  • Different ways to implement Complete Streets principles at the local and state levels.
  • Model Complete Streets policies and other legal resources available from NPLAN
  • How different communities have implemented Complete Streets
     

This webinar is for community advocates, policymakers, and public health officials who want to make streets more conducive to active transportation and physical activity. The webinar will be recorded and archived on our website.

Click here to register.

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