Upcoming & Recent Events
Upcoming Events & Presentations
Healthy Schools Summit: Working with Families to Support Healthy Schools
May 17-18, 2012, 8 am to 3:30 pm, Seattle Airport Marriott
This year’s Summit will explore the reasons for and the most effective ways to engage families in the effort to create healthy schools. Both days of the Summit begin with a keynote address, are followed by small group sessions, and end with a ‘harvesting session,’ a time to reflect on collective learning from the day. More
Recent Events
Food Day Symposium -- UW Nutritional Sciences Program
October 27 - UW Parrington Hall Commons
The symposium brought together UW faculty and students, top researchers, and stakeholders to disucss the latest research and curriculum on food, health and our local food environment. Sessions included "Research Opportunities in an Interdisciplinary Framework," "The Big Idea: Built Environments, Obesity & Nutrition," and "Investing in Our Future: Developing Undergraduate Curriculum in Nutrition & Food Studies." See Symposium agenda (pdf).
Understanding How Washington Cities Create Opportunities for Healthy Living: The Enabling Health in Washington Cities Survey
October 17 - Vancouver, WA
Poster session by Erica Lamson, MPH, RD, who is a Research Coordinator for the UW Center for Public Health Nutrition. The survey was supported by the Washington State Department of Health through Cooperative Agreement Number 5U58DP001491-02 from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The poster session took place at the 2011 Joint Conference on Health. Read about the survey results.
Access to Healthy Foods Summit 2011
At the event on June 23, 2011, speakers included: David R. Just of the Cornell Center for Behavioral Economics in Child Nutrition Programs speaking on "Marketing Nutrition: It's Not What You Think"; and Andrew Cheyne of the Berkeley Media Studies Group speaking on "Understanding Food Marketing and its Relationship to Healthy Food Access." AHFC also presented a panel of food policy professionals from grocery retail, restaurants, schools, public health and nutrition in a conversation on current challenges and collaborative solutions to improve access to healthy foods in Washington State.
University of Washington Food Safety and Public Health: Nutritional Science Seminar SeriesFood Service Professional Seminar
On January 7, 2011, Adam Drewnowski, PhD. Professor of Epidemiology, Director, Center for Public Health Nutrition and UW Center for Obesity Research presented on "Food Environment, Food Safety, and Public Heath--an Overview." Listen to the lecture (low audio)
Child Care Nutrition and Physical Activity Research and Policy Meeting
On July 19, 2010, Donna Johnson and Pablo Monsivais presented the results of two studies on menu cost and quality and physical activity in child care (Cost & Quality and Cost Plus) that have been conducted by the UW Center for Public Health Nutrition. Participants discussed the study implications so that child care health stakeholders and advocates in Washington State can use the information to build effective child care policies. If you would like to be notified about future publications or presentations from these studies, please email uwcphn@uw.edu.
Food System Strategies Summit
On June 22, 2010, the state-wide Access to Healthy Foods Coalition convened the Food Strategies Summit in Seattle to plan ways to strengthen the state's food system. Donna Johnson and Mary Podrabsky presented a new report called "Opportunities for Increasing Access to Healthy Foods in Washington," To prepare the report, CPHN staff interviewed 65 leaders and stakeholders representing all components of Washington’s food system from production to resource and waste management.
Learn more about the summit and get the report
EveNTS ARCHIVE
CPHN/UWCOR Summits & Forums
Archive of presentations and materials from CPHN/UWCOR-sponsored summits and forums.
Faculty & Staff Presentations
Slides from selected faculty and staff presentations.
