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Registration Now Open for
ASTPHND's 2013 Annual Meeting
| | Empowering Public Health Nutritionists in Times of Change is the theme of this year's ASTPHND Annual Meeting. We will gather from June 9 through 11 at the Westin Hotel in Kansas City. We are developing sessions on a number of topics, including the Affordable Care Act, the Randolph Sheppard Act, Policy Evaluation Framework developed by UNC, and Messaging for Impact. You can view a draft agenda on ASTPHND's website. Register today!
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Check Out ASTPHND's New
Effective Collaborations Webpage
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Effective Collaborations is the newest page on ASTPHND's website.  We've compiled tools and resources to help members build their skills in leading and participating in collaborative projects. On the webpage you'll find ASTPHND's new Collaboration Primer as well as background information, skills development resources, tools, and examples of how other members have successfully carried out effective collaborations.
The ASTPHND Collaboration Primer presents an overview of collaboration principles. It outlines components that build successful collaborations, and it includes examples of ASTPHND's recent experiences. The Primer includes a checklist to guide your process to develop an effective collaboration.
Please join us for 30-minute orientation call on the new Effective Collaborations webpage. The call will be held May 30 at 2:00 pm ET Call-in info: 877 985-8350, code 833953#.
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Seeking Volunteer to Represent ASTPHND with
AND Practice Group
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ASTPHND Announces 2013 - 2014 Leaders
| | It is with pleasure that we announce the members who have recently been elected to serve in leadership roles in ASTPHND. These leaders will take office August 1st and will join existing Board members whose terms continue into next year. Thank you to the Governance Committee for building such a strong slate of candidates.
ASTPHND Board of Directors
· President-Elect - Heidi Scarpitti (OH)
· Secretary - Doris Montgomery (IA)
· Director-at-Large - Michelle Futrell (NC) and Paola Velez (UT)
Governance Committee
· Molly Killman (AL), Tracy Miller (CO), Amy Ellings (WA)
MCH Nutrition Council
· Chair-Elect: Robin Stanton (OR)
Fruit and Vegetable Nutrition Council
· Chair-Elect: Amy Koren Roth (NY)
Congratulations!
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An Update from an ASTPHND Liaison
| | Jennifer Young, MPH, RD (OR) is ASTPHND's liaison with the Center for Science in the Public Interest's (CSPI) Food Marketing Workgroup. She is passionate about food marketing to children and is eager to share information from the Workgroup with ASTPHND members.
More than twenty organizations participate on the Workgroup's  quarterly informational calls. The Workgroup works through social media to raise awareness about food marketing aimed at youth and to influence food industry, media, and decision makers to create policies that restrict food marketing to youth. In the past six months, the Workgroup has released a number of reports and publications on food marketing, including Redefining "Child-Directed Advertising" to Reduce Unhealthy Television Food Advertising and Nickelodeon, Marketing Obesity to Kids. Jennifer is a Nutrition Consultant with the Oregon Department of Human Services.
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ASTHO Cross-Cutting Training Needs
Strategy Meeting
| | In mid-April, ASTPHND Executive Director Karen Probert joined representatives of 31 national public health leadership groups to assess the priorities, needs, and characteristics of the governmental public health workforce. This meeting marked the first time that national leaders from all levels of government public health met to discuss future cross-cutting training needs.
ASTHO and the de Beaumont Foundation convened this strategy meeting, which was the starting point of a multi-year effort to identify the top strategic challenges and opportunities facing the public health workforce. ASTHO and the de Beaumont Foundation seek to enhance coordination among ASTHO, its affiliates, peer networks, and key partners to foster a stronger learning culture within health departments and stimulate research on workforce development.
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Obesity Prevention Projects:
Stories from ASTPHND Members
| | Back in 2010, CDC-DNPAO developed State Program Highlights, summaries of state health departments' projects to prevent and control obesity through healthful eating and physical activity. ASTPHND spoke with the lead public health nutritionist for several of these projects. We wanted to learn more about how the projects have progressed and about the important role that the state public health nutritionists played in moving these projects forward.
 In Obesity Prevention Projects: Stories from ASTPHND Members, you can read about Amy Koren-Roth's work on New York State's Farm-to-Where-You-Are Program, Teresa Hill's work on South Carolina's Breastfeeding in the Workplace Program and Diane Golzynski's work with the Michigan Food Policy Council.
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Join the Healthy Food Procurement Discussion
| | The Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) is moderating a Healthier Food Choices for Public Places Procurement Group on the Community Commons website. You can use this group to post resources, ask questions to other group members, share insights about challenges, and join colleagues in working towards advancing healthy food procurement policies. It is free to join Community Commons. CSPI invites you and your colleagues to join this discussion.
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Medela Breastfeeding University
| | Medela has launched a new online education program, Medela Breastfeeding University, to help expecting and new moms learn about breastfeeding. The program is a series of modules that presents information about what to expect at the hospital, tools to help overcome some of the challenges of breastfeeding, and tips to success through transitions such as going back to work or breastpumping while traveling. The course is based on evidence-based breastfeeding research.
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About ASTPHND
| | | The Association of State & Territorial Public Health Nutrition Directors (ASTPHND) is a non-profit membership organization that develops leaders in public health nutrition who strengthen policy, programs and
environments, making it possible for everyone to make healthy food choices and achieve healthy, active lifestyles.
Our vision is 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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ASTPHND is looking for a member to represent the Association with the