Hello,

The nonprofit Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) is hosting Championing Public Health Nutrition, a conference to explore proposals to improve the food supply and the public's health, being held October 22-23, 2008, at the Fairmont Château Laurier, in Ottawa, Canada.

For conference details and online registration: http://www.cspinet.ca/conference.

Championing Public Health Nutrition is a "must-attend" for federal, provincial or municipal policy-makers, health researchers, health journalists, nutrition-promoters, child and health advocates, educators, and anyone concerned about the diets of Canadians!

Attendees will examine proposals to strengthen school nutrition standards, nutrition information on labels and menus, food taxes, marketing to children, reformulating foods to minimize added salt and harmful fats, and much more. Just some of the confirmed speakers for Championing Public Health Nutrition include:

	·        Mr. Stephen Lewis, Professor in Global Health, Faculty of Social Sciences, McMaster University and former UN Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa

	·        Dr. Walter Willett, Chair, Department of Nutrition, and Fredrick John Stare Professor of Epidemiology and Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health

	·        Ms. Leslie Beck, Registered Dietitian and Nutrition Columnist for CTV/Globe and Mail

	·        Rev. Dr. Mike Rayner, Director, British Heart Foundation Health Promotion Research Group, Department of Public Health, University of Oxford

	·        Dr. Wilbert Keon, Senator and Chair of the Senate Subcommittee on Population Health

	·        The Honourable Dr. Carolyn Bennett, PC, MP, Liberal Party Critic for Public Health, Seniors, Canadians with Disabilities and the Social Economy and former Minister of State for Public Health

	·        Ms. Rosemary Hignett, Head of Nutrition, Food Standards Agency (UK)

	·        Dr. David Katz, Director and Co-Founder of the Yale-Griffin Prevention Research Center

	·        Dr. Gail Goldstein, Deputy Director, Cardiovascular Disease Prevention and Control Program, New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene

	·        Dr. Mary L'Abbé, Director, Bureau of Nutritional Science, Health Canada

	·        Dr. David McKeown, Medical Officer of Health, Public Health, City of Toronto

	·        Mr. Peter Julian, MP

	·        Mr. Tom Wappel, MP

	·        Dr. Mary L. McKenna, Professor, Faculty of Kinesiology, University of New Brunswick, and Nutrition Consultant to the World Health Organization (WHO) on its Global Framework on School Health

	·        Ms. Shari Graydon, Author of Made You Look - How Advertising Works and Why You Should Know, Director, Media Action, and former Director of Communications for, then Premier of British Columbia, the Hon. Ujjal Dosanjh

	 

We hope that you will register today and look forward to seeing you October 22-23, 2008!

	 

Mikhela Jason
Event Planner, Championing Public Health Nutrition
Centre for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI)
Phone: 613-590-1849
Fax: 613-590-9952
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