Skip Navigation
A-Z Topics · Directory
  Print Page

Feeding Families: Bridging Social Sciences & Social Epidemiology Approaches to Obesity Research

July 8-9, 2008

Draft Agenda

Co-Chairs: John Cawley, Cornell University
Tom Glass, Johns Hopkins University

Day One

1:30pm Introductions and Meeting Charge
2:30pm Session 1: The Role of Mom
Presenter:
Sheryl Hughes, Baylor College of Medicine
Respondents:
Naomi Quinn, Duke University
Pam Smock, University of Michigan
5:00pm Adjourn

Day Two

8:30am Brief recap, logistics, etc.
9:00am Session 2: The Influence of Media
Presenter:
Elizabeth Vandewater, RTI
Respondents:
Peter Bearman, Columbia University
Rukmalie Jayakody, Pennsylvania State University
11:30am Break
12:00pm Session 3: Fast Food versus Home Cooking AND working lunch
Presenter:
Ardyth Gillespie, Cornell University
Respondents:
Virginia Chang, University of Pennsylvania
Nancy Folbre, University of Massachusetts-Amherst
2:30pm Wrap-up
3:00pm Adjourn

Sponsored by the Demographic and Behavioral Sciences Branch of the NICHD, the NICHD Obesity Research Strategic Core, the NIH Office of Disease Prevention, the NIH Division of Nutrition Research Coordination, and the Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research.

Back to Feeding Families main page

Last Updated Date: 11/30/2012
Vision National Institutes of Health Home BOND National Institues of Health Home Home Storz Lab: Section on Environmental Gene Regulation Home Machner Lab: Unit on Microbial Pathogenesis Home Division of Epidemiology Statistics and Prevention Branch Home Bonifacino Lab: Section on Intracellular Protein Trafficking Home Lilly Lab: Section on Gamete Development Home Lippincott-Schwartz Lab: Section on Organelle Biology