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NANA Needs You!
Important & Time Sensitive News from the ASTPHND Advocacy Committee
Success Stories:
Currently, our partners at the National Alliance for Nutrition & Activity (NANA) are working hard to convince our legislators that CDC-DNPAO needs funding for all states to implement obesity prevention. NANA is doing a terrific job on these efforts but legislators want to hear from states! The ASTPHND Advocacy Committee would like to assist NANA in their efforts. To do this, committee members encourage you to send NANA success stories about nutrition programs and policies that resulted from CDC-DNPAO funding. Legislators are eager to hear your success stories! Please send your stories to NANA's Lauren McLarney, at lmclarney@cspinet.org. Lauren will also provide guidance on format.
Stimulus Package:
The Advocacy committee has been working with NANA and other partners to monitor progress on the Obama Administrations Stimulus Package. As a result of a huge outpouring of state level grass roots work, the Stimulus Package passed with several funding items for public health nutrition. To assist ASTPHND members in understanding where to find public health nutrition topics within the Stimulus Package, the Committee drafted a document highlighting information about public health nutrition related funding. The document is posted here. The committee recommends that you visit this document periodically as it will change when new information is identified. One example in the document is potential funding for school cafeteria equipment. This may be an important improvement for states that are working to increase fruit and vegetable consumption.
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ASTPHND Annual Meeting 2009
Get set for the 2009 ASTPHND Annual Meeting: Guiding the Winds of Change in Public Health Nutrition, June 14 - 16, 2009 at the Hilton Santa Fe at Buffalo Thunder. (Click here to view the Buffalo Thunder website). A tentative agenda is available here for your review.
The committee is testing something new this year - a dinner
with speaker on Sunday evening. The
registration fee is $350 which includes dinner on Sunday evening, and breakfast
and lunch both Monday and Tuesday.
Information seeking abstracts for posters will be sent out via e-mail and be available on the ASTPHND website.
Online registration will be available in mid March.
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Promoting Healthy Weight Colloquium
Friday, March 27, 2009, 8:00 am-12:30 pm EDST
Howard Baker Center & Live Webcast
1640 Cumberland Avenue, Knoxville, TN 37996, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
This is the first of a series of biannual
Promoting Healthy Weight Colloquia. In our first colloquium, we will
highlight the issues facing infants, children, families, and their
communities related to healthy weight. This will include an emphasis
on physical activity, parenting, nutrition, and Bright Futures.
Speakers include:
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Barbara Levin, MD, MPH, Immediate-Past Chair,
Maternal and Child Health Section, American Public Health Association;
Health Officer, Loudon County Health Department; Medical Director,
Women's Wellness and Maternity Center, Madisonville, Tennessee.
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James M. Pivarnik, PhD, President, American
College of Sports Medicine; Professor and Director, Center for Physical
Activity and Health, Michigan State University
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Melissa Vickers, MEd, IBCLD, Family Advocate and Breastfeeding Consultant, Family Voices
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Stephanie Joyce, MCH Graduate Assistant, Department of Nutrition, University of Tennessee
Colloquium Offered Onsite and Online!
The Colloquium will be offered live from the new
Howard Baker Center on the University of Tennessee, Knoxville campus.
For those unable to attend in person, live web conferencing will be
available that includes the ability to submit questions to the speakers
via the Internet. High speed Internet access will make access quicker
and easier!
Registration:
Register by Friday, March 20, 2009! Click here to access registration form. Registration is required, but free! Although there is NO COST for the
colloquium, space at the Baker Center in Knoxville, is limited, so
please register early. Registration is required for both site and
online participants. Please complete the registration form and submit
by selecting the "Submit by Email" button OR complete the registration
form, select the "Print" button, and then FAX to 865-974-3491. If you
are using web-based email, you will need to save the form to your
desktop, open your web-based email, attach the registration form, and
email to utphn@utk.edu To print or email this form, please make sure
you have the most recent version of Adobe Reader. If you are using a
MAC, you may encounter error codes requesting that you update Adobe
Reader. Please disregard these error codes, select BLOCK, and
continue. A confirmation will be sent via email to all registrants.
Online participants will receive a web link to view the web conference.
For more detailed information, click here.
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Annual Award Nominations
The ASTPHND Membership Committee is seeking nominations for the annual awards. The Membership Committee is implementing several
new awards this year. The submission process will be electronically
through Survey Monkey. A notice will be sent out via e-mail early next
week requesting that members submit nominees. Contact Cyndi Atterbury if
you have not received the notification by March 18th. A listing of previous ASTPHND Awardees can be found here.
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Keep Up To Date
ASTPHND Board of Directors meet monthly on the second Friday.
A summary of the actions taken by the Board of
Directors is available after each meeting on the home page of the
ASTPHND website. Click here to view the most recent summary.
Be sure to check the ASTPHND website for other important and updated information.
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How Would You Change Healthy People 2010 Objectives?
As you know, Healthy People objectives are the
ten-year health priorities for our nation. As the nation starts the
work of revising the Healthy People 2010 (HP 2010) objectives, the
state and territorial public health nutrition directors will contribute
to this work. Federal agencies value the input of state public health
nutrition professionals. ASTPHND wants to hear the opinions of members
on the HP 2010 nutrition-related objectives so we can influence the
2020 objectives.
A form to review the HP 2010 Objectives and provide feedback is available on the ASTPHND website home page in the left column. Please take a few minutes to complete the form and send it to Karen Probert, Executive Director, at karen@astphnd.org.
Thank you.
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