Presentations

Healthy Foods in Minneapolis Urban Communities: Economic, Policy, and Community Strategies to Improve Healthy Food Access

Healthy Foods in Minneapolis Urban Communities: Economic, Policy, and Community Strategies to Improve Healthy Food Access : This public engagement symposium held in March 2006 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, brought together researchers and community leaders to identify and discuss issues related to healthy food access in lower income Minneapolis communties. An introduction by Simone French was followed by presentations by Ephraim Leibtag, Jean Kinsey, Ken Meter, and John Seltzer. Community presenters included Bernadette Longo, Angela Dawson, and Theresa Carr.

School of Public Health 2004-2005 Roundtable Presentations:

Promoting Healthy Eating and Physical Activity Among Youth of Color: Engaging Communities Through Multi-Level Strategies, June 6, 2005: This SPH Roundtable presentation, co-sponsored by the OPC, was made by Ivan J. Juzang, founder and president of MEE (Motivational Educational Entertainment) Productions Inc.  MEE is a leading provider of culturally-relevant and cost-effective intervention campaigns for hard-to-reach ethnic and urban audiences.To view his orientation, click here.

FOOD FIGHT: A dialogue on food industry litigation and the obesity epidemic. 9/14/04 (click here for a video version). This discussion, co-sponsored by the Obesity Prevention Center and the Centers for Public Health Education and Outreach, was the first of the School of Public Health Roundtable Series 2004-2005: Foods and Health. The series is part of the University of Minnesota Presidential Initiative Healthy Foods, Healthy Lives, and is funded, in part, by the Midwest Center for Life-Long-Learning in Public Health.

International Ancel Keys Symposiums on Nutrition and Health:

First International Keys Symposium on Nutrition and Health: The International Obesity Epidemic, September 2004: The First Ancel Keys Symposium on Nutrition and Health, held in September 2004 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, brought together international researchers to inform the understanding of the prevalence, underlying causes, and consequences of the global obesity epidemic, as well as the need to address obesity prevention and management as a public health issue.

U of MN SPH Annual Carl J Martinson Lectures:

The Politics of Prevention: Personal Responsibility versus Public Health by Marion Nestle, PhD, MPH. 9/18/04:The 9th Annual Carl J Martinson Lecture, University of Minnesota School of Public Health. You may also want to check out Dr. Nestle's website: www.foodpolitics.com.

Selected OPC Member Presentations:

Story, M. School-based Obesity Prevention Studies in Perspective, July 12, 2004.

Pereira, M. Effects of Dietary Glycemic Load on Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors During Weight Loss, 2004: Presented at the American Heart Associations Council on Epidemiology & Prevention.

Flood, A. A Method for Adding Glycemic Load Values to a Food Frequency Questionnaire Database, 2004.

Jeffery, RW. Invited Speaker, University of Texas, School of Public Health, Austin, TX, "Treatment and Prevention of Obesity," December 2003.

Jeffery RW. Treatment and prevention of obesity. Invited talk, Kansas University Medical Center (KUMC), Kansas City, MO, October 29-31, 2003.

Jeffery R. Invited Lecturer, Berzelius Symposium 62: Prevention of Obesity the Global Approach, sponsored by the Swedish Society of Medicine in Stockholm, Sweden, May 26-28, 2003.

Invited Speaker: Jeffery RW: Community-based interventions and government policies for addressing the obesity epidemic. Presented at the International Association for the Study of Obesity's 9th International Congress on Obesity, Symposium: "Community Based Intervention and Government Policies," Sao Paulo, Brazil, August 24-29, 2002.

Jeffery RW, Utter J. The changing environment and population obesity. TOPS award recipient presentation at NAASO's National Nutrition Week, San Diego, CA, Feb 23-24, 2002.

Audio Interviews:

Dianne Neumark-Sztainer was interviewed about her research on teen obesity for a "University of Minnesota Moment.," To hear the interview, click on http://blog.lib.umn.edu/archives/urelate/radio/UMM Obesity.mp3.