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Public Health Policy Change:
A Webinar Series
The Public Health Law Center's series of free webinars for the public health community covers significant and timely topics in public health law and policy. Our national panel of presenters
includes experts in public health law and policy in areas such as tobacco control, obesity prevention, worksite wellness, active living, and public health legislation.
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"Addressing Childhood Obesity through School Food Procurement"
DATE: April 17, 2012
TIME: 12 - 1:30 p.m. (CST)
Children consume up to half their daily calories at school, making school food environments an important target for obesity prevention. Food procurement practices, or the ways schools obtain food for school meal programs, determine what foods are available and affordable for schools to serve. This webinar will outline why school food procurement is key to changing the nutritional quality of school meals. The presenters will highlight schools' practices of procuring food for federally-funded school meal programs, the legal requirements schools must follow when procuring food, and schools' opportunities to leverage procurement practices for the improvement of school nutrition. The webinar will also address how the new federal nutrition requirements for school meals may affect schools' procurement practices.
Speakers include:
Moderator: Susan Bishop, Great Trays Access Coordinator, Minnesota Department of Health
Presented in Partnership by the American Heart Association and the Public Health Law Center.
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