The National Academies: Advisers to the Nation on Science, Engineering, and Medicine
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Christine Mirzayan Science and Technology Policy Graduate Fellowship Program Seminar Series |
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You Eat What You Pay For: The 2007 Farm Bill and Public Nutrition |
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10/31/2007Meeting End:10/31/2007 |
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National Academies (Keck Center) |
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500 Fifth Street, NW, Washington D.C. 20001 |
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This event is organized and sponsored by the Science and Technology Policy Graduate Fellows and is open to the public. It will be moderated with ample time available for questions and discussion. Photo ID required to enter the building. This seminar is for educational purposes only and is not connected to an NRC/NAS/IOM/NAE project, report, or committee. No report or summary will be produced from this seminar.
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Christine Mirzayan Science and Technology Policy Graduate Fellowship Program Seminar Series |
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Date: October 31, 2007
Time: 12:30-2:00 PM
Location: The Keck Center of the National Academies, 500 5th Street, NW, WDC
Room: Keck 100
By metro: Judiciary Square (red line) or Gallery Place/Chinatown (Red/Green/Yellow lines)
PLEASE NOTE: Photo ID required to enter the building
For further details and periodic updates, visit
www.national-academies.org/policyfellows/events.
The National Academies
Christine Mirzayan Science and Technology Policy Graduate Fellowship Program
presents
You Eat What You Pay For: The 2007 Farm Bill and Public Nutrition
Since its inception during the Great Depression, the Farm Bill has directed U.S. food policy and impacted public health through subsidies, farm loans, nutritional initiatives such as school lunch and Food Stamp entitlements, and other programs. Currently, the Farm Bill is up for renewal. This seminar examines how the 2007 Farm Bill will affect public nutrition and explores ways the bill could be restructured to improve America's eating habits.
The panelist will examine the following issues:
How could the Farm Bill be restructured to promote the USDA recommended dietary guidelines?
What would be the economic ramifications of such restructuring, and how do they compare with the potential improvements in public nutrition?
If fresh produce became less expensive and more accessible, would fruit and vegetable consumption change substantially?
Invited Speakers:
Hope Ferdowsian, MD, MPH (bio below)
Director
Washington Center for Clinical Research
Katherine Ozer (bio below)
Executive Director
National Family Farm Coalition
The seminar will feature 10-15 minute presentations by the invited speakers, followed by a moderated question and answer session.
No report or summary will be produced from this seminar.
Public Contacts:
Julia Skapik, JSkapik@nas.edu or 202.334.2534;
Cesar Perez-Gonzalez, cperez-gonzalez@nas.edu or 202.334.3568
Media Contact: Office of News and Public Information, 202.334.2138
SPEAKER BIOS:
Kathy Ozer has worked on farm, rural, and fair trade policy for the past 20 years in her role as Policy Director and Executive Director of the National Family Farm Coalition (NFFC). Prior to her position with the NFFC, she worked with the United States Student Association (USSA) on legislative issues.
She is on the board of the Citizens Trade Campaign, Community Food Security Coalition, and the National Campaign for Sustainable Agriculture. In the past decade, Kathy has been part of the farmer delegations at the World Trade Organization (WTO) in Seattle, Washington and Cancun, Mexico. She has also worked with NFFC farmer leaders at other international meetings including the WTO ministerial in Hong Kong.
In 2007, her work has focused on promoting changes in federal farm policy that promote food sovereignty, ensuring that farmers receive a fair price for what they produce, and policies that expand access to healthy food for all consumers.
Kathy received a B.A in economics from the University of Massachusetts/Amherst and lives in Washington, D.C.
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Hope Ferdowsian, M.D., M.P.H, is a nutrition researcher, physician, and public health advocate. As Director of the Washington Center for Clinical Research, Dr. Ferdowsian conducts studies on the role of nutrition in obesity, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease. Her current projects include the development of a multi-center study to examine the role of a low-fat vegan diet in diabetes management, a worksite-based nutrition study, and a preliminary analysis of the addictive properties of dairy products. Dr. Ferdowsian’s previous research has included studies of diabetes outcomes in a New York City homeless population and a Rockefeller University study of chronic disease prevalence in a Micronesian population.
Dr. Ferdowsian has served medically in Malawi, South Africa, and the Federated States of Micronesia. Dr. Ferdowsian has worked with the United States Department of Health and Human Services Office of Global Health, as an invited collaborator on a United States Surgeon General’s global health document. She is a volunteer physician for Physicians for Human Rights and Doctors of the World. Dr. Ferdowsian is a staff physician at Unity Health Care and a Voluntary Clinical Instructor in the Department of Medicine at The George Washington University Medical Center, in Washington, D.C.
Dr. Ferdowsian received her medical degree from the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine. She completed both residency training in Community and Preventive Medicine and her master’s degree in public health at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City. Dr. Ferdowsian completed internal medicine training at The George Washington University Medical Center, in Washington, D.C. She is board certified in General Preventive Medicine and Public Health. She holds medical licenses in the District of Columbia and New York state.
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