Advancing Nutrition and Food Science: 80th Anniversary of the Food and Nutrition Board
February 28, 2020
National Academy of Sciences Building Auditorium
2101 Constitution Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20418
| 9:00 am | Welcome and Opening Remarks |
| Shiriki Kumanyika, Research Professor, Drexel University, and Food and Nutrition Board Chair | |
| 9:15 | Perspectives from Leadership in Nutrition, Science, and Health Policy |
| Moderated by Barbara Schneeman, Professor Emerita, University of California, Davis | |
| Remarks from David Satcher | |
| 16th Surgeon General of the United States and Founding Director and Senior Advisor, Satcher Health Leadership Institute, Morehouse School of Medicine |
| Remarks from the National Academy of Medicine President | |
| Victor J. Dzau, President, National Academy of Medicine | |
| Remarks from the Health and Medicine Division Executive Director | |
| Clyde Behney, Executive Director, Health and Medicine Division | |
| 9:45 | Keynote Address |
| David Kessler, Director and Board Chair, Center for Science in the Public Interest, and former Commissioner, U.S. Food and Drug Administration | |
| 10:15 | Break in Great Hall |
| 10:35 | The Food and Nutrition Board’s Impact on Nutrition and Food Science: Domestic and International Perspectives |
| Moderated by Sylvia Rowe, President, SR Strategy | |
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| 11:50 | Q&A with Presenters |
| 12:15 pm | Lunch |
| 1:00 | New Challenges in Nutrition, Food Science, and Policy |
| Moderated by Robert Russell, Professor Emeritus, Tufts University, and former Food and Nutrition Board Chair |
| 1:00 | New Challenges in Nutrition Science |
| Patrick Stover, Vice Chancellor and Dean for Agriculture and Life Sciences, Texas A&M AgriLife Research | |
| 1:20 | New Challenges in Food Science and Technology |
| Eric Decker, Professor and Department Head, University of Massachusetts | |
| 1:40 | New Challenges in Food and Nutrition to Inform Policy |
| David M. Klurfeld, National Program Leader, U.S. Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service | |
| Susan Taylor Mayne, Director, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition | |
| Alanna Moshfegh, Research Leader, U.S. Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service | |
| 2:25 | Q&A with Participants |
| 2:40 | Break in Great Hall |
| 3:00 | Participant Discussion: Future Directions for the Food and Nutrition Board |
| Moderated by Bernadette Marriott, Professor Emerita, Medical University of South Carolina | |
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| 4:15 | Q&A with Participants |
| 4:40 | Building a Blueprint for the Future |
| M. R. C. Greenwood, Professor Emerita, University of Hawaii, and Distinguished Professor of Nutrition, Emerita, University of California, Davis, and former Food and Nutrition Board Chair | |
| Johanna Dwyer, Professor, Tufts University | |
| Linda Meyers, former Director, Food and Nutrition Board | |
| 4:55 | Closing Comments |
| Shiriki Kumanyika, Research Professor, Drexel University, and Food and Nutrition Board Chair | |
| 5:00 | Adjourn |