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Schedule


SESSION # TOPIC ACTIVITIES
 
Module 1 - Food Security: Diet, Food Production, Health and the Environment
1 Overview and Conceptual Framework for the Course (Bob Lawrence and Polly Walker) Lecture
 
Module 2 - An Ecological Perspective: Food Production and the Environment
2 A Brief History of Agriculture and Food Production; The Rise of "Industrial Agriculture" (Shawn McKenzie) Lecture
3 Ecology, Agriculture, and a "Green-Green" Revolution (M. Gordon "Reds" Wolman) Lecture
4 What Does Agriculture Have to Do with Public Health? (Fred Kirschenmann) Lecture
 
Module 3 - Public Health Implications of Industrial Animal Production
5 IAP: Overview; Health and Environmental Impacts (Ellen Silbergeld, Jay Graham) Lecture
6 Public Health Implications of Aquaculture (Edward Broughton) Lecture
7 IAP: Occupational, Community and Social Impacts; Real Communities, Real People (Ellen Silbergeld, Amy R. Sapkota) Lecture
8 Organizing for Justice: DelMarVa Poultry Justice Alliance (Carole Morison, Polly Walker) Lecture
 
Module 4 - Food Production: Economic and Policy Considerations
9 Eating as a Moral Act (Brother Dave Andrews) Lecture
10 What Does Agriculture Have to Do with Public Health? (Fred Kirschenmann) Lecture
11 U.S. Agricultural Policies and the Farm Bill: Where is Health? (Michael Heller) Lecture
 
Module 5 - Food Consumption: Cultural and Political Considerations
12 Cultural and Behavioral Determinants (Sid Mintz) Lecture
13 US Dietary Guidelines and "DASH Style" Diets (Lawrence J. Appel) Lecture
14 "Food Politics": Advertising/Marketing, Budgets (Bob Lawrence) Lecture
15 Global Nutrition Transition (Benjamin Caballero) Lecture
 
Module 6 - Sustainable Alternatives to Current Food Systems
16 The Sustainable Agriculture Imperative: Methods, Benefits, Challenges and Necessity; Local Food Systems (Michael Heller) Lecture
17 Moving Towards a Better Food System: Inch by Inch, Row by Row, Gonna Make Some Real Food Grow (Wayne Roberts) Lecture
 
Module 7 - Opportunities for Public Health
18 Research - Water and Air Quality Around CAFOs (Amy R. Sapkota) Lecture
19 Practice - Healthy Stores Projects (Joel Gittelsohn) Lecture
20 Advocacy - Meatless Monday Campaign (Sid Lerner) Lecture
21 Concluding Commentaries (All Speakers) Lecture