Health Challenge and Satellite Events 2007
Health Challenge and Satellite Events 2007 McGill University
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Health Challenge and Satellite Events 2007
Changing the global dietary environmentTop international experts to meet at McGill conference on childhood obesityLeading international experts from health, agriculture, food, education, finance, management, environmental protection, politics and economics will meet at the McGill University Health Challenge Think Tank November 7, 8 and 9 to tackle one of the most serious threats to our children’s health and well-being: the global childhood obesity pandemic. Since 2003, Professor Laurette Dubé, James McGill Chair in Consumer and Lifestyle Psychology and Marketing, has convened an annual Health Challenge Think Tank based on the firm conviction that addressing global health issues in a comprehensive, effective way demands a massive mobilization across borders, sectors and areas of expertise. To that end, this year’s event will draw a Who’s Who of key international scientists, stakeholders and decision-makers, including representatives from the Food and Health Organization of the United Nations, the World Health Organization, the Culinary Institute of America, the American Beverage Association, the Clinton Foundation/American Heart Association’s Alliance for a Healthier Generation and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, as well as from Unilever, PepsiCo, Kellogg, Sodexho, Discovery Kids, SAM Sustainable Asset Management and many other actors from the private sector and civil society. As individuals, organizations, institutions and governments have been successfully mobilized to implement significant “environmentally friendly” actions, the 2007 Think Tank calls with the same urgency for “health-friendly” actions. “If we are to have a fighting chance at stopping the progression of the childhood obesity pandemic,” says Dubé, “we need nothing less than a reconsideration of the basic ways in which our society operates to place health on everyone’s agenda. This means looking at health within the broader economic and cultural context that critically shapes such an agenda.” Think Tank participants will examine the most strategic points along local and global food chains to shift the drivers of food supply and demand in a “health-friendly” direction. A special module in the program is devoted to the empowerment of schools and communities in the fight against obesity. This conference is organized by McGill University, in collaboration with partner and contributor organizations that include, among others, the Global Alliance for the Prevention of Obesity and Related Chronic Disease, the Fondation André et Lucie Chagnon, the Ministère de la santé et des services sociaux du Québec, the Public Health Agency of Canada, the Agence de la santé et des services sociaux de Montréal, the Canadian Institutes for Health Research, Health Canada, the Institut national de la santé publique du Québec’s National Collaborating Centre for Healthy Public Policy, the Ministère de l’agriculture, des pêcheries et de l’alimentation du Québec, the Canadian Agri-Food Policy Institute, the National Institutes of Health (USA), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (USA), and the American Heart Association. A complete list of partners is available at the end of this document. The McGill Health Challenge Think Tank is open to the media and will be webcast live. Presenters may be available for interviews and web-recording will be posted upon closure. Contact:Michael Bourguignon Media Relations Office McGill University 514.398.8305 OPENING KEYNOTE SESSION Address Ways Forward and Capacity Building for Better Convergence Between Health, Economy and Culture along Local and Global Food Chains
The Moral Consequences of Economic Growth
Agriculture Corinna Hawkes, Research Fellow, International Food Policy Research Institute, USA Josef Schmidhuber, Senior Economist, Food and Agriculture Organization, Italy Vincent Atkins, Senior Agricultural Research Professional, Caribbean Regional Negotiating Machinery; Senior Project Officer in Agricultural Development, CARICOM, Guyana Stephen A. Vosti, Associate Director, Center for Natural Resources Policy Analysis at UC Davis, USA Mark Muller, Director, Environment and Agriculture Program, Institute for Agriculture & Trade Policy, USA Jay Hirschman, Director, Special Nutrition Staff, Food Nutrition Service, United States Department of Agriculture, USA Susie Miller, Director General, Food Value Chain Bureau, Canada Donna Roberts, Senior Economist, Economic Research Service, Department of Agriculture, USA Martine Dubuc, Associate Deputy Minister, Ministère de l’Agriculture, des Pêcheries et de l’Alimentation du Québec, Canada Business Stephen Sugarman, Roger J. Traynor Professor, Law, Berkley University, USA Gary Gereffi, Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center on Globalization, Governance, and Competitiveness, Duke University, USA William Bernstein, Author of The Birth of Plenty and The Four Pillars of Investments, USA David Sparling, Value Chain Expert, Department of Agricultural Economics and Business, University of Guelph, Canada Bruno Goussault, Director of Engineering Cuisine Solutions, Centre de la Recherche et d’étude pour l’alimentation, France Jordan Lebel, School of Hotel Administration, Cornell University, USA Karl Moore, Business Strategic Marketing, McGill University, Canada Eve Felder, Associate Dean for Curriculum and Instruction for Culinary Arts, The Culinary Institute of America, USA Marie-Hélène Sicard, Senior Director of Marketing, Sodexho, Canada Christine Lowry, Vice-President Nutrition and Corporate Affairs, Kellogg Canada, Canada Elizabeth Pivonka, President and CEO, Produce for Better Health Foundation, USA Ron Lemaire, President, International Alliance for Fruits and Vegetables, Canada Raquel Izquierdo de Santiago, Food Policy Advisor, Freshfel Europe, Belgium Robert-Jan Brummer, Program Director, Top Institute Food and Nutrition, Netherlands Julie Greene, Director of Healthy Living, Hannaford, USA Spencer Henson, Food Manufacturing and Distribution, Agricultural Economist, University of Guelph, Canada Patricia Vaughan, Senior Vice-President of the Legal Department, American Beverage Association, USA Miguel Pestana, VP External Affairs, Unilever, Netherlands Christy Manso, Business Development Manager, School Beverages, Alliance for a Healthier Generation, USA Advertising/Media/Culture Jessica Zwaiman, Director of Programming, Discovery Kids Latin America, USA Dana Kuperman, Country Director Latin America & Western Europe, International Projects, Sesame Workshop, USA Brady Darvin, Senior Director of Consumer Insights, Strottman International, USA Shelly Rosen, Chief Executive Officer, Airlift Ideas, Inc., USA William George, Senior Vice President, Corporate Social Responsibility and Ethical Consumerism, Edelman, Canada Warren Belasco, Anthropologist, Author of Food of the Future, USA Harvey A. Levenstein, Department of History, McMaster University, Canada Politics Cheryl Schonhardt-Bailey, Political Sciences, London School of Economics, UK; Author of From Corn Laws to Free Trade, Canada Rob Merrifield, Chair, House of Commons Standing Committee on Health, Canada Jean-Marie Le Guen, Physician and Deputy, Paris, President of the Study Group, National Assembly, France Joe Clark, Former Prime Minister of Canada; Affiliated Professor in Private-Public Partnership, McGill University, Canada Environment Paul Thomassin, Professor, Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, McGill University, Canada Marcelo Levy, Partner, Responsible Forestry Solutions; Professor, Environmental Studies, York University, Canada Lorne Johnson, Vice-President, World Wildlife Fund, USA Pierin Menzli, Senior Equity Analyst Healthy Living, SAM Sustainable Asset Management, Switzerland Education Patrick Webb, Former Chief of Nutrition for the United Nations World Food Program, Dean for Academic Affairs, Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Tufts University, USA Howell Wechsler, Director, Division of Adolescent and School Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, USA Ann Cooper, Chef; Director, Nutrition Services, Berkeley Unified School District (BUSD), USA Virginia Stallings, Chair, Committee on Nutrition Standards for Schools, Institute of Medicine, USA Doug McCall, International School Health Network, Centre for Community & School Health Promotion Research, University of Victoria, Canada Richard Leblanc, Coordinator, Complementary Educational Services, Ministère de l’Éducation, du Loisir et du Sport, Québec, Canada Health Francesco Branca, Regional Adviser, Nutrition and Food Safety, WHO, Switzerland James S. Marks, Senior Vice-President and Director, Robert Wood Foundation Health Group, USA Kaare Norum, Professor Emeritus and Rector Emeritus, Institute for Nutrition Research, School of Medicine, Oslo University; Former Chair, WHO Reference Group on Global Strategy on Diet, Physical Activity and Health, Norway Tim Lobstein, International Obesity Task Force, UK Zhao Wenhua, Acting Director, Division of Non-communicable Disease Control and Prevention, Chinese Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Deputy Director, International Life Sciences Institute, China Carlos A. Monteiro, Professor, School of Public Health and Centre for Epidemiological Research in Health and Nutrition, University of São Paulo, Brazil Narendra K. Arora, Executive Director, International Clinical Epidemiology Network; Professor of Pediatrics, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, India T. Colin Campbell, Jacob Gould Schurman Professor Emeritus; Director, the Cornell-Oxford-China Diet and Health Project, Cornell University, USA Tom Baranowski, Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, USA Thomas N. Robinson, Departments of Pediatrics and Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, USA Adam Drewnowski, Professor, Epidemiology, School of Public Health and Community Medicine; Director, Center for Public Health Nutrition, University of Washington, USA Barbara J. Rolls, Department of Nutrition, Penn State University, USA Kim Raine, Director of the Center for Health Promotion, University of Alberta, Canada Kristinn Kellie Leitch, Advisor on Health Children and Youth; Chair of Pediatric Surgery, Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, Canada Lyne Mongeau, Quebec Societal Plan Coordinator, Quebec Public Health Directorate, Canada PARTNER AND CONTRIBUTING ORGANIZATIONS STRATEGIC PARTNERS WHO INITATED THE 2007 THINK TANK
KNOWLEDGE-TO-ACTION PARTNERS WITH FINANCIAL AND SUBSTANTIVE CONTRIBUTION
KNOWLEDGE-TO-ACTION PARTNERS WITH SUBSTANTIVE CONTRIBUTION
FINANCIAL CONTRIBUTORS
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