FY 2010 Food Assistance and Nutrition Research Conference: Emerging Issues and Recent Findings: Agenda

Welcome

7:30-8:15 am

Check-in and continental breakfast

8:15-8:30 am

Welcome
Katherine (Kitty) Smith, Administrator, Economic Research Service, USDA

8:30-9:15 am

Keynote Speaker
Moderator: Kitty Smith, Administrator, Economic Research Service, USDA

• Kevin Concannon, Under Secretary for Food, Nutrition, and Consumer Services, USDA

9:15 -10:45 am

Child Nutrition and WIC: Emerging Issues and Research Priorities
Moderator: Laurian Unnevehr, Economic Research Service, USDA

• Derek Miller, Staff, Senate Agriculture Committee
  
• Marlene Schwartz, Deputy Director for the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity, Yale University
  
• James Weill, Food Research and Action Center
  
• Jay Hirschman, Office of Research and Analysis, Food and Nutrition Service, USDA

10:45-11:00 am

Break

11:00-Noon

Recent Findings on Food Insecurity of Children
Moderator: Joanne Guthrie, Economic Research Service, USDA

• Food Security among Children
  Mark Nord, Economic Research Service
  
• The Role of School Breakfast in Alleviating Food Insecurity
  Judi Bartfeld, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  
• School Meals and the Diets of Children from Food Insecure Families
  Anne Gordon and Elizabeth Potamites, Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.

Noon-1:00 pm

Lunch at ERS

1:00-2:30 pm

SNAP: Emerging Issues and Research Priorities
Moderator: John Kirlin, Economic Research Service, USDA

• David Stevens, Jacob France Institute
• Dottie Rosenbaum, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
• Edward Frongillo, Jr., University of South Carolina
• Carol Olander, Office of Research and Analysis, Food and Nutrition Service, USDA
  

2:30-2:45 pm

Break

2:45-4:00 pm 

Recent Findings on Program Access and Outcomes
Moderator: Betsy Frazao, Economic Research Service, USDA

• Food Distribution Program on Indian Reservations
  Walter Hillabrant, Support Services International, Inc.
  
• Impact of Food Stamps and WIC on Health and Long-run Economic Outcomes
  Hilary Hoynes, UC Davis
  
• Immigration and WIC/NSLP Caseloads
  Tracy Vericker, Urban Institute
• Food Deserts
  Shelly Ver Ploeg, Economic Research Service