Agenda

(Additional Summit Photos)

Thursday, October 18, 2007

6:00 p.m. - 6:20 p.m.

6:20 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.

Welcome and Opening Remarks

Maya Rockeymoore, Director, Leadership for Healthy Communities

James Marks, Senior Vice President, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation  (Video file)

6:30 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.

7:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.

Congressman Ron Kind, U.S. House of Representatives

Opening Keynote Address: Governor Parris Glendening, Smart Growth Leadership Institute (Video file)

(PowerPoint file, 3.1 MB)

Confronting Childhood Obesity Among Vulnerable Populations: Identifying Challenges and Promising Practices (Video file)

Immense disparities exist between the quality of the social, built and food environments available to support healthy eating and active living in lower-income communities, communities of color, and higher-income, predominately white communities. This panel highlights the challenges for healthy eating and active living among vulnerable populations and demonstrates how elected leaders are using innovative policy strategies to remove these barriers.

Moderator: Herb Conaway, Assemblyman, New Jersey Legislature, Delran, New Jersey

Corliss Outley, Assistant Professor, Department of Recreation, Park, and Tourism Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas  (PowerPoint file, 368KB)

Jessica Collins, Director of Special Initiatives, Partners for a Healthier Community, Springfield, Massachusetts (PowerPoint file, 3.2 MB)

Roel Gonzalez, Superintendent, Rio Grande City Consolidated Independent School District, Rio Grande City, Texas

Angela Glover Blackwell, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, PolicyLink, Oakland, California

Friday, October 19, 2007

8:00 a.m. - 8:30 a.m.

8:15 a.m. - 8:30 a.m.

8:30 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.

Continental Breakfast

Morning Remarks: James Marks, Senior Vice President, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Breakfast Keynote Address:

Senator Lisa Murkowski, U.S. Senate (Video file)

Senator Tom Harkin, U.S. Senate (Video file)

From Sidewalks to Farmers' Markets: Strengthening our Communities to Improve Health (Video file)

The world we live in and the opportunities available to us shape the choices we make. This panel highlights local and state approaches to improving community health, including: transportation, planning, and land-use policies; school siting and design issues; and innovative food access programs. The role of collaboration between land-use planners and economic development professionals, schools and local governments is explored as an effective method to create opportunities for active living and healthy eating.

Moderator: Sarah Strunk, Director, Active Living By Design, Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Gerald Johnson, City Manager, City of Lincoln, Lincoln, California

Lynn Silver, Assistant Commissioner, Bureau of Chronic Disease Prevention & Control, New York Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, New York City, New York               (PowerPoint file, 5 MB)

Dwight Evans, Representative, Pennsylvania House of Representatives, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Linking Obesity to Global Concerns: Energy, the Environment, and Climate Change (Video file)

This panel outlines opportunities and challenges in relating environmental policies to those that address public health. It moves beyond traditional discussions to identify ways that environmental and public health advocates can work together to establish and maintain healthy, livable communities that promote health, prevent obesity and protect the environment.

Moderator: James Sallis, Director, Active Living Research, San Diego, California

Howard Frumkin, Director, Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, National Center for Environmental Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia   (PowerPoint file, 3.3 MB)

Robert Cluck, Mayor, City of Arlington, Texas

J. Walter Tejada, Vice-Chairman, Arlington County Board, Arlington, Virginia            (PowerPoint file, 2.3 MB)

Harriet Tregoning, Director, Office of Planning, Government of the District of Columbia, Washington, DC (PowerPoint file, 1.2 MB)

Luncheon Keynote Address: (Video file)

Congressman Jim Oberstar, U.S. House of Representatives

Richard Jackson, Adjunct Professor, School of Public Health & College of Environmental Design, University of California, Berkeley (PowerPoint file, 2,471KB)

Identifying Promising Policy Approaches to Childhood Obesity Prevention (Video file)

Across the country, innovative leaders are implementing promising policies aimed at enhancing community health and preventing childhood obesity, especially among populations hardest hit by the epidemic. Collaborative partnerships designed to develop local health and wellness policies, and to spur legislation at the state and federal level, are central to these efforts. This panel explores the promising partnerships, policy tools and school wellness initiatives that are currently being implemented in the field. Eliminating racial health disparities and developing leaders for policy change are also highlighted.

Moderator: Robert Ogilvie, Director, Planning for Healthy Places, Public Health Law & Policy, Oakland, California

Mark Winne, Communications Director, Community Food Security Coalition, Santa Fe, New Mexico  (PowerPoint file, 618 KB)

William Bronrott, Delegate, Maryland House of Delegates, Annapolis, Maryland

John M. Vasquez, Solano County District 4 Supervisor, Fairfield, California              (PowerPoint file, 887 KB)

Joseph Curtatone, Mayor, Somerville, Massachusetts (PowerPoint file, 1.9 MB)