Building Better Nutrition Together: A Community Town Hall
Date: Saturday, March 8th (9:00 am-12:30 pm)
Venue: Church of Christian Compassion
6121 Cedar Ave, Philadelphia, PA 19143
Lunch provided
Description
This townhall event is designed to bring together members of the Cobb Creek neighborhood with both university faculty and The Community Grocer to have an open dialog about both the challenges of improving health by eating a healthier diet as well as opportunities to improve access to affordable nutritious food. Results from the Community Health, Access to Nutrition and Grocery Experience (CHANGE) study, performed over the summer, will be described as an example by which collaboration between these groups on projects will help bring resources into the community.
Agenda
(Presentation times include 5 minutes for questions and answers)
- (9:00-9:10) Welcome
- (9:10-9:55) “Diet and its effects on health and disease: What is a healthy diet?” Discussion between Pastor Lonnie Herndon and Zena Duckett, RD, at HUP Cedar, and Meg Bruening (PSU)
- (9:55-10:20) “The CHANGE Study: The value of studying barriers to healthy eating in partnership with Penn - What did we learn about the community?” Speakers: Stefanie Hinkle, Sophia Hua, Nawar Naseer, and Lisa Downing (Community Advisory Board Member).
- (10:20-10:40) Break
- (10:40-11:15) “Opportunities to improve dietary quality: The Community Grocer” Speakers: Alex Imbot, Eli Moraru, Ms. Bird (Community Advisory Board Member), and Chef Joy
- (11:15-11:40) “Public policy focused on Medicaid expansion to combat food and nutrition insecurity in Commonwealth of Pennsylvania” Speaker: Susan Veldheer (PSU)
- (11:40-12:30): Round table discussion between community members, academics, and policy makers.
- Moderators: Sophia Hua & Christie Ileto Panelists: TCG Community Advisory Board and others, policy makers, academics (including all speakers and Gary Wu from PenNSAM), and others including Michele Nelson from Mama-Tee and Nicole Laverty from MANNA. Examples of topics for discussion:
- What is working and what is not regarding efforts to combat food/nutrition insecurity in your community?
- What are potential solutions to the problem of food/nutrition insecurity in your community? What do you think about The Community Grocer?
- What are your perspectives on participating in biomedical research? What are the challenges of providing dietary survey information (what was the biggest barrier to participation)?
- What type of benefits would you like to receive from participating in biomedical research beyond financial compensation?
- What information in this town hall did you find of value? What information was not helpful? What are topics that you would like to have been included?
- Moderators: Sophia Hua & Christie Ileto Panelists: TCG Community Advisory Board and others, policy makers, academics (including all speakers and Gary Wu from PenNSAM), and others including Michele Nelson from Mama-Tee and Nicole Laverty from MANNA. Examples of topics for discussion:
- (12:30-12:35) Closing remarks
Visit demonstration tables and obtain box lunches