The 2008 Report Card on NYC’s Food & Nutrition Policies

May 16, 2008, 9:30am – 4:00 pm
Brookdale Auditorium @ Hunter College
425 East 25th Street (just off First Avenue), New York, NY 10010

Help us evaluate our city’s food and nutrition policies along with
Keynote speakers…

• Mary Bassett, Deputy Commissioner, Health Promotion & Disease Prevention, NYC DOH

• Nicholas Freudenberg, Distinguished Professor in Urban Public Health, Hunter College

• Elliott Marcus, Associate Commissioner, NYC DOH

• Ben Thomases, NYC Food Policy Coordinator

• Christine Quinn, Speaker of the New York City Council
  
  And panel facilitators

• Fern Gale Estrow, FGE Food and Nutrition Team

• Theresa Landau, WIC

• Toni Liquori, Teachers College

• Maudene Nelson, Institute of Human Nutrition

Working lunch workshop panels include:
Eating in NYC: Healthy eating and food access for all New Yorkers (community gardens, food gleaning)
Infants & Children: Enhancing nutrition for children under 5 years (WIC, Head Start, Baby Friendly Hospitals)
Special Populations: Promoting optimal nutrition for at-risk populations (elderly, homeless, incarcerated)
Educational Settings: Nutrition education in the primary, secondary, medical, culinary, and community settings

Please register early as seats are limited to the first 200 registrants.
Advanced registration only.
$10 General Admission, $5 CUNY Faculty and Staff, $5 Student*

- * send or bring a copy of valid student ID with registration form and payment
-  Cost includes a light breakfast and vegetarian boxed lunch
-  6 CPE credits have been requested from the American Dietetic Association.
-  Funded by the Hunter College Auxiliary Enterprise Board and the Hunter College Schools of the Health Professions.
-  Sponsored by the Hunter College Program in Urban Public Health and the CUNY Doctoral Program in Public Health.
-  Food provided by Sodexho and others