Spring and Fall 2012 Speakers

Amy B. Jordan, PhD

Director, Media & the Developing Child, Annenberg Public Policy Center, University of Pennsylvania

Testing the Effectiveness of Public Service Advertising Aimed at Reducing Consumption of Sugar-Sweetened Beverages

Ronette Briefel, DrPH, RD

Senior Fellow, Mathematica Policy Research

National Data to Inform Childhood Obesity Prevention Strategies: Beverage, Dietary, and Activity Practices at Home and School

Ellen Wartella, PhD

Al-Thani Professor of Communication, Professor of Psychology, Professor of Human Development and Social Policy, Director of the Center on Media and Human Development, Northwestern University

Media Characters: The Unhidden Persuaders in Food Marketing to Children

James Krieger, MD, MPH

Chief, Chronic Disease and Injury Prevention Section, Public Health – Seattle and King County; Clinical Professor, Medicine and Health Services, University of Washington

Using Policy and Systems Changes to Create Healthy Environments at the Local Level

Curt Ellis

Co-Founder and Executive Director, FoodCorps

Growing Forward: Toward a New Vision for Food

Yale Peabody Museum

170 Whitney Avenue

3rd Floor Auditorium

Jason Riis, PhD

Assistant Professor, Business Administration, Harvard Business School

Field Studies of Healthy Eating Interventions in Retail Settings

Yofi Tirosh, SJD

Assistant Professor, Faculty of Law, Tel Aviv University

The Right to Be Fat

William H. Dietz, MD, PhD

Director; Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Adventures in Marketing Food to Children

Peter Kaminsky

Author

Culinary Intelligence: The Art of Eating Healthy (and Really Well)

Jean Kilbourne

Senior Scholar, Wellesley Centers for Women

Falling in Love with Food: Connection and Disconnection in Food Advertising

Yale Peabody Museum

170 Whitney Avenue

3rd Floor, Auditorium

Steven L. Gortmaker, PhD

Professor of the Practice of Health Sociology; Department of Society, Human Development and Health; Harvard School of Public Health

The Best Value for Money: Interventions to Reduce Obesity by Changing Sugar-Sweetened Beverage and Water Access and Intake

Robert H. Lustig, MD

Professor of Pediatrics, Division of Endocrinology, University of California, San Francisco

The Sugar Pandemic – Policy vs. Politics

Yale Peabody Museum

170 Whitney Avenue

3rd Floor, Auditorium

Timothy D. Lytton, JD

Albert and Angela Farone Distinguished Professor of Law, Albany Law School

Can You Believe It’s Kosher? Trust, Reputation, and Non-Governmental Regulation in the Age of Industrial Food

Matthew Prescott

Director of Food Policy, The Humane Society of the United States

Farms or Factories? How Politics, Corporations & Consumers Are Making Industrial Agriculture More Humane

Matt Longjohn, MD, MPH

Senior Director, Chronic Disease Prevention Programs, YMCA of the USA

A Physician Advocate's View of Policy and Systems Changes for Chronic Disease Prevention

W. Douglas Tynan, PhD, ABPP

Director, Program Development and Implementation, Nemours Health & Prevention Services

Transforming Early Childcare to Promote Healthy Habits

Thomas C. O'Guinn, PhD

Professor, University of Wisconsin School of Business

Branded Reality: The Construction of Commercial Social Reality

Mark Bomford

Director, Yale Sustainable Food Project

Can an Urban Campus Re-Invent the Food System? Looking Ahead for the Yale Sustainable Food Project

Edward M. Cooney, JD

Executive Director, Congressional Hunger Center

What Are the Top 2012 Policy Priorities for the National Anti-Hunger Advocates?