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Suggested Citation:"Appendix B Workshop Agenda." National Research Council. 2005. Improving Data to Analyze Food and Nutrition Policies. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11428.
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Appendix B
Workshop Agenda

ENHANCING THE DATA INFRASTRUCTURE IN SUPPORT OF FOOD AND NUTRITION PROGRAMS, RESEARCH, AND DECISION MAKING

The Melrose Hotel

2430 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW

Washington, DC

Workshop Agenda

May 27-28, 2004


Thursday, May 27

10:30

Welcome and Introductions

 

John Karl Scholz, Chair, University of Wisconsin–Madison

Constance Citro, Director, Committee on National Statistics

Susan Offutt, Administrator, Economic Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)

Clifford Johnson, Director, NHANES Program, National Center for Health Statistics, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS)

Suggested Citation:"Appendix B Workshop Agenda." National Research Council. 2005. Improving Data to Analyze Food and Nutrition Policies. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11428.
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11:00

Session 1

Overview of Food Consumption, Expenditures, and Sales Datasets

 

Session Chair: John Karl Scholz, University of Wisconsin–Madison

James Blaylock, Economic Research Service, USDA

Steve Henderson and Sioux Groves, Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor

Clifford Johnson, National Center for Health Statistics, DHHS

Abebayehu Tegene, Economic Research Service, USDA

12:00

Lunch

1:00

Session 2

Food Marketing and Promotion and Food Market Analysis

 

Session Chair: F. Jay Breidt, Colorado State University

Donald Hinman, Agricultural Marketing Service, USDA

Gerald Bange, World Agricultural Outlook Board, USDA

2:00

Session 3

Food Consumption Data and the Evaluation of Food Assistance Programs

 

Session Chair: John Karl Scholz, University of Wisconsin–Madison

Jay Hirschman, Food and Nutrition Service, USDA

David Smallwood, Economic Research Service, USDA

Jay Bhattacharya, Stanford University

Steven Haider, Michigan State University

3:15

Break

3:30

Session 4

Food Safety and Food Consumption Data

 

Session Chair: Laurian Unnevehr, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Phil Derfler, Robert Post, Ron Meekhof, Food Safety and Inspection Service, USDA

Suggested Citation:"Appendix B Workshop Agenda." National Research Council. 2005. Improving Data to Analyze Food and Nutrition Policies. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11428.
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Michael DiNovi, Office of Food Additive Safety, Food and Drug Administration, DHHS

David Miller, Office of Pesticide Programs, Environmental Protection Agency

Neal Hooker, Ohio State University

4:45

Open Discussion

5:00

Adjourn

Friday, May 28

8:30

Breakfast

9:00

Session 6

Food Consumption Data, Diet, and Health

 

Session Chair: Alan Kristal, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, University of Washington

Eric Hentges, Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion, USDA

Susan Krebs-Smith, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health

Barry Popkin, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

10:15

Break

10:30

Session 7

The Use of Scanner Data and Other Proprietary Sources of Data to Address Policy Questions: Panel Discussion

 

Session Chair: William Eddy, Carnegie Mellon University

Abebayehu Tegene, Economic Research Service, USDA

John Green, Vice President of Industry Strategy, ACNielsen

Cindy Beres, Operations Manager, Foodworld, The NPD Group

Gary Thompson, University of Arizona

Helen Jensen, Iowa State University

Suggested Citation:"Appendix B Workshop Agenda." National Research Council. 2005. Improving Data to Analyze Food and Nutrition Policies. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11428.
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11:45

Session 8

Possible Data Improvements or Data Linkages: Panel Discussion

 

Session Chair: John Karl Scholz, University of Wisconsin–Madison

Ronette Briefel, Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.

Laurian Unnevehr, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Alan Kristal, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, University of Washington

William Eddy, Carnegie Mellon University

12:30

Workshop Adjourns

Suggested Citation:"Appendix B Workshop Agenda." National Research Council. 2005. Improving Data to Analyze Food and Nutrition Policies. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11428.
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Several changes in the United States over the past two decades have implications for diet, nutrition, and food safety, including patterns of food consumption that have produced an increase in overweight and obese Americans and threats to food safety from pathogens and bioterrorism. The changes raise a number of critical policy and research questions: How do differences in food prices and availability or in households' time resources for shopping and food preparation affect what people consume and where they eat? How do factors outside of the household, such as the availability of stores and restaurants, food preparation technology, and food marketing and labeling policies, affect what people are consuming? What effects have food assistance programs had on the nutritional quality of diets and the health of those served by the programs? Where do people buy and consume food and how does food preparation affect food safety?

To address these and related questions, the Economic Research Service (ERS) of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) asked the Committee on National Statistics to convene a panel of experts to provide advice for improving the data infrastructure on food consumption and nutrition. The panel was charged to review data needs to support research and decision making for food and nutrition policies and programs in USDA and to assess the adequacy of the current data infrastructure and recommend enhancements to improve it. The primary basis for the panel's deliberations, given limited resources, was a workshop on Enhancing the Data Infrastructure in Support of Food and Nutrition Programs, Research, and Decision Making, which the panel convened on May 27-28, 2004.

This report is based on the discussions at the workshop and the deliberations of the panel. The report outlines key data that are needed to better address questions related to food consumption, diet, and health; discusses the available data and some limitations of those data; and offers recommendations for improvements in those data. The panel was charged to consider USDA data needs for policy making and the focus of the report is on those needs.

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