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
A celebration of Food City, the book by the late Joy Santlofer, alumna and former adjunct, from 6:00-8:00 p.m. at NYU’s Torch Club, 18 Waverly Place. Brief remarks from Jennifer Berg and Jonathan Santlofer (and me). Free.
I’m giving a lunch talk on “Food Politics: Who Decides What You Eat?” to sociology undergraduates in the department’s conference room, room 4156 Puck Building (295 Lafayette, 4th floor) from 12:30-2:00 pm. Free, open to public.
I’m giving a talk about nutrition in public health for NYU public health nutrition and other students and interested parties. A panel will follow. This starts at noon. Kimball Hall (Greene @ Waverly) ground floor.
