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Second annual symposium provides comprehensive focus on challenges, solutions to healthy eating, nutrition
March 12, 2012
Dr. Roni Neff of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health will be the featured guest speaker at the second annual symposium, "Healthy Eating in Context: Local Solutions, Global Challenges," beginning at 8:30 a.m. Friday, March 30, at the Columbia Metropolitan Convention Center.
The symposium ushers in Public Health Week, April 2 – 8, that carries the theme "A Healthier America Begins Today. Join the Movement."
The deadline to register for the event is March 23. Reservations will be accepted in the order they are received. Late registration and walk-ins will be accepted as space allows, and symposium materials will be distributed as available. The registration fee for faculty and staff is $25; $10 for students and community members. The cost includes lunch and a registration packet.
Established in 2011 by the University of South Carolina's Center for Research in Nutrition and Health Disparities at the Arnold School of Public Health, the center has teamed up with the Environment and Sustainability Program to host the symposium, which will continue until about 4 p.m. with presentations and discussions, as well as a scientific poster session.
Among the topics to be discussed are the role of nutrition, agricultural, and environmental policies; barriers to a healthy and sustainable diet; promising approaches to geopolitical, community, and household food security; and lessons to be learned from local food movements.
Neff, an assistant scientist in the Department of Environmental Health Sciences, is the research and policy director at the Center for a Livable Future at the Bloomberg School of Public Health. She has a joint appointment in Health Policy and Management. The Center for a Livable Future is an academic center focused on the connections among diet, food production, environment and public health. Neff oversees policy programs for the center, and she is developing an edited textbook on food systems and public health.
Frequently called upon by the national media for her expertise on a variety of topics related to nutrition and food systems, Neff is interested in food and ecological concerns (climate change, peak oil, soil); public health and agricultural policy (especially the Farm Bill); and access to sustainably produced and healthy food. She also is interested in occupational injury and illness, with a focus on underreporting, disparities and federal policy.
Visit http://nutritioncenter.sph.sc.edu/ for complete information about the symposium or contact Dr. Holly Pope, Director of Communications, Center for Research in Nutrition and Health Disparities at hpope@sc.edu, 803.556.1122.
