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The second seminar in this series: “Junk food and challenges to generate scientific evidence of their detrimental effects.”  3:00 p.m. , Aula Magna room.

This is the first of a series of seminars I am giving as part of my Fulbright Award: “Sugar-sweetened beverages: health policies to reduce their intake.”  3:00 p.m. Aula Magna room.

I am giving the morning keynote (9:30-10:30 a.m.) at the First Annual Better Food Movement Conference, launching Food Week 2017.  My talk is “Food Politics: From Personal Responsibility to Social Responsibility.”  Chapman Conference Center, Room 3210 Miami-Dade College Wolfson Campus, 300 NE 2nd Ave, Bldg 3.

I’m doing a “Hub Session” titled “Ask About: Nutrition.”  This is from 9:30 to 10:00 a.m. in the Health Hub, lower level (-1) of the Congress Centre.

This is a dinner panel discussion from 8:00 to 10:00 p.m. on “healthy people, healthy planet,” Hotel Meierhof restaurant.  The other participants are Sam Kass, Dean Ornish, and Shenggen Fan (of IFPRI).  It’s chaired by Allison Aubrey of NPR News.

I’m giving a talk on “healthy eating: from personal responsibility to politics” from 9;00-9:45 a.m in the Congress Centre, BetaZone.  I will be introduced and interviewed by Dr.  Jeffrey Drazen, editor of the New England Journal of Medicine.

I’m on a panel on the history and future of food policy in New York City at the CUNY Graduate Center, 365 5th Avenue at 34th Street, Elebash Recital Hall, 7:00-8:30 p.m.

The panel: Gergley Baics (Barnard) will speak about his new book, Feeding Gotham, exploring the deregulation of the city’s public food markets in the early 1800s. I will talk about the late Joy Santlofer’s recent release Food City: Four Centuries of Food-Making in New York (for which I wrote the Foreword), and Nick Freudenberg (CUNY Public Health) will discuss food policy issues facing the city. Mark Bittman is moderator.  Co-sponsored by Wellness in the Schools and Green Bronx Machine.

I’m speaking to graduate students and faculty in the Department of Nutrition and Food Studies about my current book in progress, tentatively titled “Buying Nutrition Science.”  It’s about the consequences of food-industry funding of nutrition research and practice.  411 Lafayette, 5th floor, large conference room, 3:00-5:00