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Mark Your Calendar for the ASTPHND Annual Meeting
| | Please join us for the 2011 ASTPHND annual meeting, Leading the  Way in Public Health Nutrition and Physical Activity: Blazing New Trails June 12th - 14th in Salt Lake City, Utah. This meeting is planned in conjunction with
the National Society of Physical Activity Practitioners in Public Health. The registration fee is $385 for members and $435 for nonmembers.
In addition to the three-day annual meeting, we will hold a special workshop, Building Effective Collaborations: Implementation of the Surgeon General's Call to Action to Support Breastfeeding, Tuesday afternoon June 14th through Wednesday June 15th. The registration fee is $85 and includes breakfast and a box lunch on Wednesday, as well as refreshments on both days.
The National Council of Fruit and Vegetable Nutrition Coordinators will also meet Tuesday afternoon through Wednesday. This training workshop will focus on the Let's Move Salad Bars to Schools campaign. The workshop on the Salad Bar campaign is open to state Fruit and Vegetable Nutrition Coordinators.
View complete annual meeting details, including agendas and lodging information on ASTPHND's Annual Meeting webpage.
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Fruit and Vegetable Council Mini-Grant Program Supports Let's Move Salad Bars to Schools
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The Fruit & Vegetable Nutrition Council will grant $75,000 in mini- grants to state agencies and their partners to learn how salad bars in schools impact fruit and vegetable access and consumption, what role Fruit & Vegetable Nutrition Coordinators are playing, and what training needs coordinators have in this initiative. The mini-grant program is made possible through a collaborative project with our partners at CDC DNPAO. Applications were due April 15 and the Council will announce its awards May 2 for projects to be completed by the end of 2011.
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ASTPHND Now Posts Job Openings
| |  The ASTPHND website now lists available positions around the country in public health nutrition. At www.astphnd.org, just scroll down the left menu bar and click on Job Openings.
Have a job announcement you'd like us to list? Send your information to Lynda Alfred.
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Fruit & Vegetable Council Wins
CHAMPION Award
| | The National Council of Fruit and Vegetable Nutrition Coordinators received a Champion award from the Produce for Better Health Foundation for the Council's work in supporting the Fruits & Veggies More Matters campaign.
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Wanted:
Member to Represent ASTPHND with
Action for Healthy Kids
| | Action for Healthy Kids (AFHK) brings together diverse organizations, leaders, and volunteers to improve nutrition and increase physical activity in schools. If you work with AFHK in your state, you may be interested in serving as the ASTPHND liaison to AFHK. Your level of involvement could be as simple as monitoring AFHK's list serve and sharing important information with the ASTPHND Board as needed. There may also be opportunities for you to become more involved with AFHK.
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Now Available
Presentations from the
WIC Food Package Symposium
| | On November 30, 2010, the Altarum Institute, in partnership with ASTPHND and the National WIC Association, presented the WIC Food Package Evaluation Symposium in Washington, D.C. The event was a gathering of researchers, policy makers and program administrators to discuss WIC Food Package research, evaluations, and findings. Altarum now has available on its website a report on the proceedings of the symposium as well as each of the multimedia presentations.
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National Maternal and Infant Nutrition Intensive
July 27-29 2011
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Registration is now open for the 16th Annual National Maternal and Infant Nutrition Intensive Course July 27-29 at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. Distance education opportunities are also available for this conference.
Featured topics this year include:
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The effects of obesity and glycemic status in pregnancy on infant and child obesity and health outcomes
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Environmental health issues for maternal and child health populations
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Breastfeeding promotion for minority women and mothers of multiples
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The lifecourse theory and nutrition
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The National Children's Study Management of feeding issues in early childhood
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Food insecurity and weight
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Developing effective messages to advance health policy
and advocacy.
Click here for detailed information about the course, including topics, speakers, CEUs, registration and housing. Click here for registration information.
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National Food Day
October 2011
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Healthy, affordable food produced in a humane, sustainable way is the  rallying cry for Food Day, planned for October 24, 2011. Like Earth Day, Food Day seeks to build a nationwide, grassroots movement aimed at educating Americans about the impact of the food system on health, hunger, and the environment and to advocate for stronger food policies at the local, state, and national levels.
Food Day organizers, led by the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI), are planning events in schools, churches, farmers markets, city halls, and state capitals around the country.
State public health nutrition directors can use Food Day to bolster their ongoing efforts to help Americans choose healthy diets. ASTPHND members can volunteer to lead Food Day events by writing to foodday@cspinet.org. Eventually, www.foodday.org will feature a map highlighting where Food Day events are planned coast to coast.
"Too many Americans are eating diets that can lead to obesity, diabetes, cancer and other health problems," said CSPI executive director Michael F. Jacobson, Ph.D. "CSPI is hoping that ASTPHND members can take leadership roles in Food Day and that their events will bring attention and support for our shared public health goals."
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State Health Departments be on the Alert!
State Legislature Moves to Prevent Local Governments from Banning Fast Food Toy Giveaways
| | In late February, the Arizona House of Representatives passed a bill that would make it illegal for any local government to restrict toys from being given away with fast-food meals targeted to children. Although not a single city or county in Arizona is proposing such a ban, the legislation is a counter response to measures passed in San Francisco and Santa Clara County, California banning toys in kids' meals that have excess calories or poor nutritional quality. The Florida State Senate passed a similar bill in mid-March.
A March 1 op-ed piece in the Arizona Daily Star summed up the issue: "The proponents aren't interested in learning why restrictions on promotions for unhealthy foods to children make sense, or why soda taxes and other policies to combat the growing epidemic of childhood obesity are gaining in popularity. Childhood obesity will soon displace
tobacco use as the number one threat to the nation's public health in terms of lives damaged and lost as well as in health-care costs shouldered by taxpayers."
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Send Your Photo to ASTPHND
| | Please send us a picture of you! We'd like to post your picture with your listing in the membership directory on ASTPHND's website. Just email a JPEG photo to Cyndi Atterbury. Thanks!
Also, please double check that your phone number is accurate in the membership directory. Send any changes to Cyndi.
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About ASTPHND
| | The Association of State & Territorial Public Health Nutrition Directors (ASTPHND) is a non-profit membership organization that provides state and national leadership on food and nutrition policy, programs, and services. We seek to create new environmental norms where healthy eating and active living are the easy and natural choices for all Americans. We welcome your involvement in our growing organization. Learn more about us at About ASTPHND.
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