Legislative Briefing and Policy Forum: New Approaches to Reducing Promotion of Unhealthy Food in New York City

The City University of New York Campaign Against Diabetes and the Public Health Association of New York City invite you to a Legislative Briefing and Policy Forum:

New Approaches to Reducing Promotion of Unhealthy Food in New York City

Tuesday, January 27
9 am to 11 am
CUNY Graduate Center
365 Fifth Avenue at 34 Street
Skylight Room, 9 Floor

To reverse the epidemics of obesity and diabetes epidemics that are burdening New York City and worsening the city's health disparities requires three changes: making affordable healthy food more available; increasing options for safe physical activity and reducing the promotion and availability of unhealthy food.  While the City is taking important steps in the right direction in the first two, much more needs to be done to reduce the promotion of unhealthy food. This Policy Forum will review legislative and other approaches to making unhealthy food less available. Its goal is to assist legislators, advocates and others to propose and implement specific policy changes in New York City.  The Policy Forum is based on the recent report Reversing Obesity in New York City An Action Plan for Reducing the Promotion and Accessibility of Unhealthy Food.

Please RSVP by 1/23 to 212-817-1888 or LMongiello@gc.cuny.edu

The full report is available at http://www.phanyc.org/pdfs/2008unhealthyfoodreport.pdf
and a 4 page summary is at http://www.phanyc.org/pdfs/2008unhealthyfoodreportexec.pdf

Schedule
9:00  Welcome Paul Meissner, President of Public Health Association of New York City
9:10  Introduction: Why reducing promotion of unhealthy food is important for reversing epidemics of obesity and diabetes in New York   Nicholas Freudenberg, Distinguished Professor of Public Health, CUNY, Co-Chair, CUNY Campaign Against Diabetes
9:25  Current NYC Initiatives to Reduce Availability of Unhealthy Food, Dr. Lynn Silver, Assistant Commissioner, Bureau of Chronic Disease Prevention & Control  NYC Department of Health & Mental Hygiene
9:40  Policy Options for Reducing Promotion of Unhealthy Food: What's the Evidence?  Lauren Dinour, MPH, RD, CDN, CUNY Graduate Center
Questions and Answers
10:00 Lessons from London and other European Jurisdictions   Kim Libman*, PhD Candidate, Environmental Psychology, Coordinator CUNY/London Metropolitan University Collaborative On Childhood Obesity in New York City and London
10:15  Perspectives from Elected Officials and their Staff  --At an open forum for elected officials and their staff to respond to the report, suggest policy options and ask questions.  Invited:
Honorable Christine Quinn, Speaker, New York City Council; Honorable Joel Rivera, Majority Leader and Chair, Health Committee, New York City Council; Honorable Scott Stringer, Manhattan Borough President; Honorable Marty Markowitz, Brooklyn Borough President  and others
10:45  Summary and closing, Hollie Jones,PhD,  Medgar Evers College, Co-Chair CUNY Campaign Against Diabetes  and Lois Utley, Chair, PHANYC Policy Committee

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