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While food and nutrition are separate concepts, they converge at the point of access - not only should food be reliably available to everyone, but that food should be affordable, culturally relevant, and nutritious. In the United States, 38 million people, including 12 million children, are food insecure. United States Department of Agriculture and other government and non-governmental organizations improve nutritional guidelines and increase access to healthy and affordable food.

During Birth & Beyond, keynote speaker Dr. Maya Maroto will talk about the convergence of food and nutrition security, the role of nutritional guidelines, and the policies and programs the federal government and non-governmental organizations are implementing to equitably improve food and nutrition security in the United States. Guest speaker Dr. Tanya Agurs-Collins will speak on the root causes of nutrition health disparities; a representative from the Center for Agriculture and Food Systems at Vermont Law School will share tools and programs created to support local communities to strengthen healthy health food policy and healthier school lunch programs. The Food and Nutrition Information Center at the United States National Agricultural Library will close out the event, sharing tools and research and demonstrating how to navigate the information center and nutrition.gov websites.

The afternoon session consists of an optional Wikipedia editing training session and editing time to focus on food systems and food insecurity.

Please register on Eventbrite. The confirmation email from Eventbrite will include the Zoom link and password to access the event. Full-day attendance is not required.

Wikipedia is an openly editable resource, meaning that you can improve the quality and accuracy of Wikipedia entries. As one of the web’s most visited reference sites, Wikipedia serves as a starting point for many individuals looking to learn about art, history, and science.

During this training, attendees of all experience levels will learn the basics of how to edit Wikipedia by updating related articles.

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When

March 23, 2022
10:00am-3:00pm Eastern

Where

Virtual!

Details

No Wikipedia editing experience is necessary; training will be provided.


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10:00-10:05 Welcome, Paul Wester, Director, USDA National Agricultural Library

10:05-10:35 Dr. Maya Maroto EdD, MPH, RDN, Vice President, Federal, State, and Municipal Partnerships, Partnership for a Healthier America

10:35-10:45 Dr. Tanya Agurs-Collins, PhD, RD Program Director, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health

10:45-11:00 Question & Answer session with keynote speakers, Paul Wester as moderator

11:00-11:10 Dr. Sara Bleich, Director, Nutrition Security and Health Equity in the Food and Nutrition Service (USDA)

11:10- 11:20 Lihlani Nelson, Associate Director, Center for Agriculture and Food Systems

11:20-11:30 Question & Answer session with guest speakers, with Paul Wester as moderator

11:30-12:00 BREAK

12:00-12:30 Wikipedia Editing Training with Jamie Flood, USDA National Agricultural Library

12:30-12:35 Break

12:35-3:00 Editing time, questions and follow-up, one-on-one training as needed. Take breaks as needed. Shortly before 3:30 we will wrap up by reviewing our editing statistics.

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Dr. Maya Maroto is Vice President of Federal, State, and Municipal Partnerships at the Partnership for a Healthier America (PHA). Dr. Maroto serves on the PHA leadership team and is working to cultivate partnerships to expand PHA’s current and future programs in pursuit of food equity. Prior to joining PHA, she held positions at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (CFSAN) and at the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) where she managed award-winning nationwide nutrition education and outreach initiatives. Dr. Maroto also currently serves as an adjunct graduate-level nutrition science professor at the George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services. She is a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist (RDN) and has a Doctorate of Education in Educational Leadership from Morgan State University, a Master of Public Health in Nutrition from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and a Bachelor of Science in Nutrition and Food Science from Auburn University.

Dr. Tanya Agurs-Collins is a Program Director in the Health Behaviors Research Branch, Behavioral Research Program, Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, National Cancer Institute (NCI). In this capacity, she is responsible for directing, coordinating and managing a research grant portfolio in diet, physical activity and weight loss behavioral interventions for cancer prevention and survival. Dr. Agurs-Collins’ research focuses on race and ethnic disparities in dietary intake and obesity on cancer risk and survival. She is also interested in understanding individual genetic variation in diet and physical activity behaviors and response to weight loss interventions.

Dr. Sara Bleich is the Director of Nutrition Security and Health Equity in the Food and Nutrition Service at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), after serving as the Senior Advisor for COVID-19 in the Office of the Secretary at USDA (2021). She is a policy expert and researcher who specializes in diet-related diseases, food insecurity and racial inequality with more than 175 peer-reviewed publications. She is on leave from her post as a Professor of Public Health Policy at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, the Harvard Kennedy School, and the Harvard Radcliffe Institute. Dr. Bleich was also a White House Fellow during the Obama administration, where she worked at USDA as a Senior Policy Adviser for Food, Nutrition and Consumer Services and with the First Lady Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move! Initiative. She holds degrees from Columbia (BA, Psychology) and Harvard (PhD, Health Policy).

Lihlani Nelson is the Associate Director and Research Fellow at the Center for Agriculture and Food Systems (CAFS), where she manages operations and a wide range of administrative functions. She also leads and contributes to a variety of projects, including overseeing the Healthy Food Policy Project which elevates local-level policies that increase access to healthy food. She has a background in planning and food systems, with a dual masters in Agroecology and Urban and Regional Planning from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Before joining the CAFS team, she worked as a Program Associate with the National Farm to School Network on the Seed Change initiative building capacity for schools to increase local procurement, support on-site food production, and providing food, nutrition, and agriculture education.

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Slides from the March 23, 2022 Birth & Beyond Edit-a-thon

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