Agenda
Thursday,
October 16 |
| 8:00 am |
Continental Breakfast
|
| 8:30 am |
Opening Remarks
Alex Majchrowicz, Director, RIDGE Program, ERS
Laurian Unnevehr, Director, Food Economics Division, ERS
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| 9:00 am |
Session 1:
Institute for Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Judi Bartfeld, Grants Program
Director
Assessing the Effect of Increased Housing Costs on Food Insecurity
Jason M. Fletcher and Susan H. Busch, Yale University
The Long-Term Outcomes of Food Stamp Participants
Thomas Vartanian, Bryn Mawr College and Joseph Harkness, Johns Hopkins University
The Effect of Food Insecurity on the Physical, Cognitive, and Socio-Emotional Development of Infants and Toddlers
Alison Jacknowitz, American University and Daphne C. Hernandez, Pennsylvania State University
Food Insecurity and the Food Stamp Program
Bradford F. Mills , Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University and Elton Mykerezi, University of Minnesota
|
| 10:45 am |
Session Break
|
| 11:00 am |
Session 2:
American Indian Studies Program, The University of Arizona
Jay Stauss, Director, American Indian Studies Program
Understanding the Impact of Food Assistance Program Usage on Diet Among American Indians
Joel Gittelsohn and Muge Qi, Johns Hopkins University
Healthy Native Foods in a Rural Convenience Store Setting
Susan Secakuku, Sipaulovi Development Corporation, Hopi Sipaulovi Village
|
| 12:00 noon |
Lunch at ERS, “City of the Big Shoulders”
|
| 1:00 pm |
Session 3:
Department of Nutrition, University of California, Davis
Lucia Kaiser, Director
The Use of New World Health Organization Growth Standards to Identify Trends and Determinants of Overweight in WIC Infants and Children
Kathryn Dewey and Zeina Maalouf, University
of California, Davis
WIC Vendor Access and Fruit and Vegetable Availability in Northern Illinois
Angela Odoms Young, University of
Illinois at Chicago and Daniel Block,
Chicago State University
The Impact of the School Breakfast Program on the National School Lunch Program in Elementary Schools
Karen Spears, University of Nevada, Reno
|
| 2:20 pm |
Session Break
|
| 2:35 pm |
Session 4:
Southern Rural Development Center, Mississippi State University
Lionel J. “Bo” Beaulieu, Director
Nutrition, Food Security, and Obesity Among Low-Income Residents of the South
Patricia Duffy, Claire Zizza, and Henry Kinnucan, Auburn University
Prevalence of Accurately Reconstituted Infant Formula Among WIC and non-WIC Participants: Exploring Maternal Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices of Infant Formula Preparation and Associations with Infant Anthropometry
Katherine Kavanagh-Prochaska, University of Tennessee
|
| 3:30 pm |
Session 5:
Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago
Robert LaLonde, Director
The Economics of the Thrifty Food Plan
Parke Wilde, Tufts University
Child Care Centers in the Mississippi Delta: Does CACFP Participation Influence Food Choices
Patricia Dill and Linda Southward, Mississippi State University
|
| 4:30 pm |
Closing Statements and Adjournment
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Friday,
October 17 |
| 8:00 am |
Continental Breakfast
|
| 8:25 am |
Announcements
|
| 8:30 am |
Session 6:
American Indian Studies Program, The University of Arizona
Jay Stauss, Director, American Indian Studies Program
Implementing Strategies That Increase Healthy Food Consumption in Local Grocery Stores on a Northern Plains Indian Reservation
Blakely Brown, University of Montana
Wa-dooch Pinx-gi: Ho Chunk for Really Good Eating
Crystal Dawn Snowball, Little Priest Tribal College
|
| 9:25 am |
Session 7:
Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago
Robert LaLonde, Director
Food Assistance and Child Care Quality
David Alexander and Marcia Stoll, Illinois Action for Children
Food Stamp Use Among the Elderly: Evidence From Panel Data
Helen Levy, University of Michigan
|
| 10:15 am |
Session Break
|
| 10:30 am |
Session 8:
Southern Rural Development Center, Mississippi State University
Lionel J. “Bo” Beaulieu, Director
Understanding Nutrition Challenges Faced by Older Americans in Rural Areas: The Role of the Food Environment and Neighborhood Characteristics
Joseph R. Sharkey and Rodolfo M. Nayga, Texas A&M University
Socio-Demographic Factors, Food Stamp Participation and Health: The Case of Low-Income Individuals in Tennessee
Steven T. Yen, University of Tennessee
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| 11:50 am |
Conference Closing Remarks and Adjournment
David Smallwood, Deputy Director for Food Assistance Research, ERS
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