September 24, 2013
Friday, December 13th 2013, 9am to 4pm Kaiser Town Hall 3704 N Interstate Ave, Portland, OR 97227 Registration: $50/professional (Includes sustainable lunch) Developed by Oregon Physicians for Social Responsibility Health Care Without Harm Kaiser Permanente Northwest Jointly Sponsored by Oregon Physicians for Social Responsibility Northwest Permanente, PC Department of Clinical & Leadership Education Kaiser Permanente Northwest About the Training: The Food Matters Training is designed to introduce a clinical audience (physicians, nurses, and other medical and community health professionals) to issues related to our current food system and human/population health and to provide them with hands-on training and experience to advocate for healthy food environments and systems as part of a prevention based agenda in the community and public policy arena. A panel of elected officials will share perspectives and strategies for effective policy advocacy. Three current policy debates will be presented by local experts as case studies: farm to school, antibiotics in animal agriculture and healthy food access. Participants will be engaged in small groups to learn and practice advocacy approaches on these case study issues including preparation and delivery of testimony, media interviews and persuasive writing. Background: What we eat profoundly impacts the health of individuals, our communities, and the environment. The U.S. population is ubiquitously exposed to energy-dense, nutritionally depleted, chemical-laden food that is grown in environmentally destructive and unsustainable ways. Obesity, diabetes, malnutrition, cancer and other chronic diseases are the costly consequences of our current consumption patterns, both in terms of human well-being Register today at: www.foodmatters.eventzilla.netand healthcare expenditures. Health care professionals, such as physicians, nurses and dieticians, frequently provide anticipatory guidance on nutrition and health eating to their patients. Yet encouraging healthy eating alone will not promote healthy eating habits if the food systems which most people rely on, make access to healthy food choices difficult. The current industrial system of food production and distribution is deeply entrenched, and until recently was seen as outside the purview of health care professionals. This view is changing. In 2009, the American Medical Association House of Delegates passed a resolution calling for physicians to work with health care and public health organizations to educate the health care community and the public about the importance of healthy and ecologically sustainable food systems that "provide food and beverages of naturally high nutritional quality”. In June 2010, the American Dietetic Association, American Nurses Association, American Planning Association, and American Public Health Association endorsed a similar set of food system principles. Speakers Include
- Ted Schettler, MD; Science and Environmental Health Network
- Emma Sirois, MS, Program Director, Oregon Physicians for Social Responsibility
- Molly Haynes RD, MPH, Community Benefit Manager, Kaiser Permanente
- Anneliese Koehler, Public Policy Advocate, Oregon Food Bank
- Jeff Kleen, Federal Public Policy Advocate Oregon Food Bank
- Katy Pelissier, MPH, Farm to School Program Manager, Ecotrust
- Invited local, state and federal elected officials
