NYC Food Policy Center (Hunter College)

Interview with Food Policy Expert Dr. Marion Nestle
2022-10-13 09:30 - 10:30 (America/New_York)
On October 13th, author and food policy expert Dr. Marion Nestle joined Hunter College NYC Food Policy Center Executive Director Dr. Charles Platkin to discuss Dr. Nestle’s latest book, “Slow Cooked: An Unexpected Life in Food Politics.”
Watch the interview HERE.

NY Food 2025: Policies for a Stronger, Healthier, More Just, and Sustainable Food System in NYC
2022-03-16 09:00 - 11:00
n March 16th, NY Food 2025, a collaboration of the Hunter College New York City Food Policy Center, the CUNY Urban Food Policy Institute, and the Laurie M. Tisch Center for Food, Education & Policy, Teachers College, Columbia University, held an online public forum titled “NY Food 2025: Policy Recommendations for a Stronger, Healthier, More Just, and Sustainable Food System in NYC.” Building on the first report detailing COVID-19’s impact on the NYC food system during the first six months of the crisis, this forum educated and inspired stakeholders to support food policies and programs that will ensure NYC emerges from the COVID-19 pandemic with a stronger, healthier, more just, and sustainable food system.
Moderator: Lisa Elaine Held, Senior Staff Reporter, Civil Eats
Watch the panel discussion HERE.

Measuring Food Insecurity
2021-10-26 09:30 - 10:30 | Online Zoom Webinar, 2180 Third Avenue at 119th Street, New York, NY, United States
Measuring food insecurity is critical for developing food assistance programs; evaluating nutrition, health, and development initiatives; and informing food policy across sectors. This panel will discuss how food insecurity is measured. We will speak with experts to explore how food insecurity has been measured and if new tools are needed to accurately assess food insecurity following the COVID-19 pandemic.
Participants include:

Chris Barrett, PhD, Stephen B. & Janice G. Ashley Professor of Applied Economics and Management International Professor of Agriculture at Cornell University’s Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management and Co-Editor-in-Chief of Food Policy
Joel Berg, CEO, Hunger Free America
Carlo Cafiero, PhD, Project Manager of “Voices of the Hungry,” Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Alisha Coleman-Jensen, PhD, Social Science Analyst, Economic Research Service, USDA
Trenor Williams, MD, Founder & CEO, Socially Determined

Moderated by Charles Platkin, PhD, JD, MPH, Executive Director, Hunter College NYC Food Policy Center and Distinguished Lecturer at Hunter College, City University of New York. Watch the panel HERE.

Making Progress on Added Sugar: Nutrition Policy After The Pandemic
2021-05-20 09:30 - 11:00 | Online Zoom Webinar, 2180 Third Avenue at 119th Street, New York, NY, United States
Making Progress on Added Sugar: Nutrition Policy After The Pandemic

In partnership with the Center for Science in the Public Interest

In three 30 minute panels we will discuss what progress has been made on added sugar and what still needs to be done. We will also explore how the pandemic has influenced nutrition policy and what to expect going forward.

Panel I: Sugar and Institutions: What’s Been Done, and What Needs to Be Done

To increase access to and promote consumption of healthier foods and beverages for employees, program participants, people in public custody, students, and citizens, state and local governments are increasingly adopting guidelines for the foods and beverages they purchase, serve, and sell on public property and through their programs—from the prison commissary to meals served to patients at a public hospital. These policies can play a role in reducing consumption of added sugars. This session will explore the experience of implementing sugar reduction through the NYC food standards, the NYC Health and Hospitals Healthy Beverage Initiative, and opportunities to make further progress at the city and state level.

Nichola Davis, MD, MS, Vice President, Chief Population Health Officer at NYC Health + Hospitals
Elizabeth Solomon, MS, RD, Director, Nutrition Policy & Programs, NYC DOHMH
Pam Koch, EdD, RD, Executive Director, Laurie M. Tisch Center for Food, Education & Policy, Program in Nutrition

Panel 2: Pouring Rights Contracts at Public Universities
One way that beverage companies advertise their products is through exclusive marketing agreements with venues and institutions, known as “pouring rights” contracts (PRCs). Many U.S. universities (including the CUNY system and several SUNY campuses) maintain PRCs with Coca-Cola or Pepsi. Through these multi-year, multi-million dollar contracts, universities sell exclusive access to their own students, allowing beverage companies to push sugar-sweetened beverages on students and promote those products with on-campus advertising in exchange for funds. Such contracts allow the beverage companies to benefit from public resources, and effectively make universities corporate partners in the sale of unhealthy drinks. Student activists and public health faculty have begun engaging their universities to reconsider their relationships with Big Soda. This panel will discuss considerations and strategies for engaging university leadership around university pouring rights

Jen Falbe, PhD, Assistant Professor of Nutrition and Human Development, UC Davis
Richard Black, PhD, Principal, Quadrant D and former Vice President of Global Nutrition Sciences, PepsiCo
Kelly Garvey, Research Assistant at University of California Santa Barbara

Panel 3: (Added) Sugar Warnings at Restaurants
Returning to normal after the pandemic also means returning to food environments that normalize extreme consumption of sodium (salt) and added sugars. Too often, meals sold at chain restaurants approach or exceed the daily limit of sodium or added sugars in a single serving. A bill now pending in NYC Council for a sugar icon modeled on the sodium icon already in use on NYC menu boards, can help transform food environments by promoting consumer choice and reformulation. How can warnings be designed in a way that centers the needs of New York communities? These communities are disproportionately impacted by diet-related disease, and have the right access to key information about the unhealthy foods served in the food environments they utilize the most.
Communities want successful, effective warnings that will achieve real gains when it comes to public health. Learn how warning icons can help your community recover to a healthier food system and empower individuals to attain our own goals when it comes to restoring our health.

Aviva Musicus, ScD, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Sarah Sorscher, JD, MPH, Deputy Director of Regulatory Affairs at Center for Science in the Public Interest
Julio Salcedo, Teens for Food Justice Intern

Moderated by:

Marion Nestle, PhD, MPH, Paulette Goddard Professor of Nutrition, Food Studies and Public Health, Emerita, at New York University

This event will be conducted via Zoom. Register HERE.

A Conversation With Michael Moss
2021-04-20 10:00 - 11:00 | Online Zoom Webinar, 2180 Third Avenue at 119th Street, New York, NY, United States
A Conversation With Michael Moss
This event will be conducted via a Zoom Webinar.
Michael Moss, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter formerly with the NY Times and the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller SALT SUGAR FAT: How the Food Giants Hooked Us, will join the Center’s Executive Director, Dr. Charles Platkin to discuss his latest book, HOOKED: Food and Free Will.
This panel will be held as a zoom webinar. Register HERE>>>

Food, Food Insecurity, and Mental Health
2020-12-09 09:30 - 10:45 | Online Zoom Webinar, 2180 Third Avenue at 119th Street, New York, NY, United States
Food, Food Insecurity, and Mental Health
This panel will discuss the impact of food and food insecurity on mental health. We will speak with experts to explore the negative outcomes that short-term and long-term food insecurity can have on mental health.
This event will be conducted via a Zoom Webinar.

Michael Burke, PhD, Social Science Research Analyst, USDA, Food and Nutrition Service
Kara Dean-Assael, DSW, Director of Clinical Innovation and Practice, NYU McSilver Institute for Poverty Policy and Research
Craig Gundersen, PhD, ACES Distinguished Professor, Managing Editor, Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, Director of Undergraduate Studies, University of Illinois
Khary Lazarre-White, JD, Executive Director and Co-Founder, Brotherhood/Sister Sol

Moderated by Charles Platkin, PhD, JD, MPH
This panel will be held as a zoom webinar. Register HERE

The Impact of COVID-19 on Restaurants
2020-11-17 09:30 - 11:00 | Online
The Impact of COVID-19 on Restaurants in partnership with Food Tank

The restaurant industry employs 15.6 million people in the United States. Before COVID-19 restaurants were often overlooked as an integral part of the food system. When COVID-19 hit the United States hundreds of thousands of restaurants were forced to close their doors leaving restaurant workers and owners without incomes. Some restaurants closed their doors permanently but others pivoted and came up with innovative solutions to continue to serve food through COVID. The restaurant industry has been decimated. It’s estimated that around 100,000 or 1 in 6 restaurants have closed permanently or long-term. But with talk of a vaccine on the forefront many are reimagining a world post-COVID. What will restaurants look like when we return to “normal”?

In three 30 minute panels we will discuss how COVID-19 has impacted the restaurant industry and what can be done to save restaurants.

Panel 1: What Is the Role of Restaurants in the Food System?

Camilla Marcus, Founding Member, Independent Restaurant Coalition and Co-founder of the Relief Opportunities for All Restaurants
Naama Tamir, Co-owner of Lighthouse and Lighthouse Outpost

Panel 2: The Pivot. Working Through COVID-19.

JJ Johnson, Owner, FIELDTRIP
Tom Colicchio, Founder, Crafted Hospitality

Panel 3: What’s Next for Restaurants Post-COVID?

Andrew Rigie, Executive Director, NYC Hospitality Alliance
Salil Metah, Chef and Owner, Laut Singapura Restaurant

Moderated by:

Danielle Nierenberg, MS, President and Co-Founder, Food Tank
Charles Platkin, PhD, JD, MPH, Executive Director, Hunter College NYC Food Policy Center

This event will be conducted via Streamyard live and streamed all Food Tank and Food Policy Center channels (Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and YouTube).

HOW TO WATCH
Tune in Live On ANY of these channels:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NYCFoodPolicy/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uywLh5oSKfs
Twitter: https://twitter.com/NYCFoodPolicy

NY Food 20/20: Visions, Research, and Recommendations for Food Systems During COVID-19 and Beyond
2020-09-30 09:30 - 11:00 | Online Zoom Webinar, 2180 Third Avenue at 119th Street, New York, NY, United States
NY Food 20/20: Visions, Research, and Recommendations for Food Systems During COVID-19 and Beyond
Join NYC’s Three Leading Food Policy Centers
CUNY Urban Food Policy Institute
Hunter College New York City Food Policy Center
Laurie M. Tisch Center for Food, Education & Policy
On September 30th, join the Hunter College NYC Food Policy Center in collaboration with the CUNY Urban Food Policy Institute and the Laurie M. Tisch Center for Food, Education & Policy at Columbia University, for a jointly-organized online public forum “NY Food 20/20: Visions, Research and Recommendations for Food Systems During COVID-19 and Beyond.”
The three academic institutions, which are leading food policy research centers in New York City, have joined forces to monitor and assess New York City’s food system response to COVID-19 over the next 18 months and produce the first independent assessment of the effects of COVID-19 on our food system and an assessment of the many public and private responses.
In this first panel discussion of NY Food 20/20, the Centers will begin to examine the effects of the first six months of the COVID-19 pandemic and its economic consequences on New York’s food system and the health and wellbeing of New Yorkers. The Centers will also discuss the creation and early implementation of some of the City’s responses to COVID-19 related food system changes.
Panelists will discuss the concrete actions that public officials and agencies, civil society groups and others can take with a focus on how to minimize the harms and maximize the opportunities to address the underlying problems the pandemic has exacerbated. They will identify possible steps New York City can take to minimize the inequitable distribution of burdens of the pandemic by socioeconomic status and race/ethnicity. Finally, speakers will suggest strategies to enable New York City’s food system to respond to a possible resurgence of the epidemic in the coming months or to new opportunities to open and rebuild the City.
This panel will be held as a zoom webinar. Register HERE
Image courtesy of Food Bank For NYC

Stephen Ritz UNFILTERED
2020-06-17 09:30 - 10:30
Hunter College NYC Food Policy Center Executive Director Charles Platkin, PhD, JD, MPH will be joined by Stephen Ritz is the Founder of Green Bronx Machine and self-proclaimed CEO – Chief Eternal Optimist – of Bronx County to discuss COVID-19, food insecurity and food policy in New York City.
This event will be conducted via a Zoom Webinar.
This panel will be held as a zoom webinar. Register HERE

Hunger, Food and COVID-19 in NYC: An Update
2020-05-05 09:30 - 10:30
Hunger, Food and COVID-19 in NYC: An Update
COVID-19 has had significant impacts to our local food system and food around the world. This panel conversation will discuss what is happening in NYC to protect our food system, farmers and local food-related business owners and to ensure that our most vulnerable populations have access to nutritious food during this challenging time.
This event will be conducted via a Zoom Webinar.

Joel Berg, CEO, Hunger Free America
Commissioner Grace Bonilla, JD, Administrator, Human Resources Administration
Ruth Finkelstein, ScD, MA, Executive Director, Brookdale Center on Aging, Hunter College, CUNY Professor, Urban Public Health, Hunter College, CUNY
Tony Hillery, Founder and Director, Harlem Grown
Michael Hurwitz, JD, MSW, Director, Food Access and Agriculture, GrowNYC
Kate MacKenzie, MS, RD, Director, Mayor’s Office of Food Policy

Moderated by Charles Platkin, PhD, JD, MPH and Alexina Cather, MPH
This panel will be held as a zoom webinar. Register HERE

Everything You Need to Know About Food Safety, Takeout, and Groceries During COVID-19
2020-04-29 10:30 - 11:30
Everything You Need to Know About Food Safety, Takeout, and Groceries During COVID-19
This event will be conducted via a Zoom Webinar.
A conversation with Urvashi Rangan, PhD, Chief Science Advisor at Grace Communications Foundation and Donald W. Schaffer, PhD, Extension Specialist in Food Science and Distinguished Professor at Rutgers University.
Dr. Rangan is an environmental health scientist, toxicologist and investigator with more than 25 years of experience deciphering food systems to educate consumers, companies, government agencies and philanthropic investors on the best systems to support. She is a national spokesperson and advocate on a wide range of food safety risks – pathogens, pesticides, antibiotic resistance, arsenic and other carcinogens – as well as sustainable solutions, product choices and meaningful labels.
Dr. Schaffner is Extension Specialist in Food Science and Distinguished Professor at Rutgers University. His research interests include handwashing, cross-contamination and quantitative microbial risk assessment. He has authored more than 180 peer-reviewed publicationsand educated thousands of food industry professionals around the world. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Food Technologists, the American Academy of Microbiology and International Association for Food Protection (IAFP). He has served as an Editor for Applied and Environmental Microbiology since 2005. Dr. Schaffner was the president of IAFP in 2013-2014. In his spare time, he co-hosts the Food Safety Talk and Risky or Not podcasts.
Moderated by Charles Platkin, PhD, JD, MPH
This panel will be held as a zoom webinar. Register HERE

Hunger, Food and the Coronavirus in NYC
2020-03-31 09:30 - 10:30 | NY, United States
Hunger, Food and the Coronavirus in NYC
COVID-19 is rapidly changing life in New York City and across the world. This panel conversation will discuss what needs to happen in NYC to protect our food system, farmers and local food-related business owners and to ensure that our most vulnerable populations have access to nutritious food during this challenging time.
This event will be conducted via a Zoom Webinar.

Joel Berg, CEO, Hunger Free America
Commissioner Grace Bonilla, JD, Administrator, Human Resources Administration
Michael Hurwitz, Director, Greenmarket, GrowNYC
Kate MacKenzie, Director, Mayor’s Office of Food Policy (tentative)
Bryan Moran, Director, DevOps, City Harvest
Karen Washington, Owner, Rise and Root Farmer

Moderated by Charles Platkin, PhD, JD, MPH and Alexina Cather, MPH
This panel will be held as a zoom webinar. Register HERE

The Impact of Food on Academic Behavior, Attendance, Performance and Attrition
2020-03-10 09:00 - 10:15 | Online Zoom Webinar, 2180 Third Avenue at 119th Street, New York, NY, United States
The Impact of Food on Academic Behavior, Attendance, Performance and Attrition
Panelists:

Cara Cuite, PhD, Assistant Extension Specialist, Department of Human Ecology, Rutgers University
Andrea Deierlein, PhD, MPH, Assistant Professor of Public Health Nutrition, School of Global Public Health, NYU
Kevin Froner, PhD, Principal, Manhattan Hunter Science High School
Amy Schwartz, PhD, Professor, Economics and Public Administration and International Affairs, Syracuse University

Moderated by Charles Platkin, PhD, JD, MPH
Healthy Breakfast Will Be Served @ 8:30am, Talk at 9am

Kid Food: The Challenge of Feeding Children in a Highly Processed World
2019-11-14 18:30 - 20:30 | Hunter College Silberman Building, 2180 3rd Ave at 119th St, 2nd Floor Terrace, NY
Kid Food: The Challenge of Feeding Children in a Highly Processed World
A Conversation With:

Bettina Elias Siegel, Author, Kid Food: The Challenge of Feeding Children in a Highly Processed World, and blogger at The Lunch Tray
Pam Koch, PhD, Executive Director of the Laurie M. Tisch Center for Food, Education & Policy, Program in Nutrition, Teachers College, Columbia University
Marion Nestle, PhD, Paulette Goddard Professor of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health, Emerita, New York University
Charles Platkin, PhD, JD, MPH, executive director of the Hunter College NYC Food Policy Center

The panel will discuss the challenge of raising healthy eaters in today’s food environment.
Light Fare Will Be Served @ 6:30pm, Talk at 7pm with a book signing until 8:30pm

Food Policy 2019 Pitch Event
2019-11-12 08:45 - 10:15 | Hunter College Silberman Building, 2180 3rd Ave at 119th St, 2nd Floor Terrace, NY
If You Could Create ONE Food Policy or Food Initiative That Would Change/Fix the Food System in NYC – What Would It Be?

Come watch the finalists from our Food Policy 2019 Pitch Contest present their innovative ideas

One thousand dollar prize awarded to the winner.

Judges Include:

Eric L. Adams, Brooklyn Borough President
Michael Hurwitz, GrowNYC Greenmarket Director
Kim Kessler, Assistant Commissioner, NYC DOHMH
Karen Pearl, President, God’s Love We Deliver
Stephen Ritz, CEO, Green Bronx Machine

If you are interested in submitting a pitch please email info@nycfoodpolicy.org
Healthy Breakfast Will Be Served @ 8:30am, Presentations begin at 9am

Big Apple Crunch 2019
2019-10-16 10:00 - 14:00 | Hunter College Silberman Building, 2180 3rd Ave at 119th St, 2nd Floor Terrace, NY
On Wednesday, October 16, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m, the Hunter College New York City Food Policy Center, along with East Harlem service providers and small businesses, will host the BIG APPLE CRUNCH at Hunter’s Silberman School of Social Work on 119th Street in East Harlem!

The Big Apple Crunch at Hunter College in East Harlem will bring together hundreds of East Harlem children for a morning of fun and educational activities. Local elected officials (subject to availability and scheduling) will lead the crowd in big apple crunches throughout the day – attendees will bite into their apples to celebrate nutritious food and healthy eating in East Harlem. The community partners engaged in this work have come together to celebrate Food Day with community children in a fun, healthy and educational way.
Big Apple Crunch is a way for New York City residents to celebrate healthy eating. The goal of each annual Big Apple Crunch is to get as many New Yorkers as possible to bite into an apple on Food Day. In the past few years there have been more than 800,000 participants in the Big Apple Crunch nationally.

Event Details and Location:
Wednesday, October 16, 2019, 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. E.T.
Hunter College Silberman Building, 2180 3rd Ave at 119th St, 2nd Floor Terrace
Throughout the morning: Big Apple Crunches and activities for children, officiated by local elected officials. (Great photo op!)
Activities will include: Apple Face Painting; Apple Stamping; Apple Sandwiches; Apple Drizzles; Apple Goodie Bags; Apple Trivia; Apple Parachute…and many more!
Some notable participants are (subject to scheduling conflicts) Council Member Ben Kallos and Deputy Manhattan Borough President Washington.
Participating schools include: P.S. 7; The Association to Benefit Children; East Harlem Bilingual Head Start; Addie Mae Collins Head Start; Harlem Children’s Zone

Big Apple Crunch in East Harlem
2019-10-16 10:00 - 14:00 | Hunter College Silberman Building, 2180 3rd Ave at 119th St, 2nd Floor Terrace, NY
On Wednesday, October 16, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m, Hunter College New York City Food Policy Center, along with East Harlem service providers and small businesses, will host the BIG APPLE CRUNCH at Hunter’s Silberman School of Social Work on 119th Street in East Harlem!

The Big Apple Crunch at Hunter College in East Harlem will bring together hundreds of East Harlem children for a morning of fun and educational activities. Local elected officials (subject to availability and scheduling) will lead the crowd in big apple crunches throughout the day – attendees will bite into their apples to celebrate nutritious food and healthy eating in East Harlem. The community partners engaged in this work have come together to celebrate Food Day with community children in a fun, healthy and educational way.
Big Apple Crunch is a way for New York City residents to celebrate healthy eating. The goal of each annual Big Apple Crunch is to get as many New Yorkers as possible to bite into an apple on Food Day. In the past few years there have been more than 800,000 participants in the Big Apple Crunch nationally.
Event Details and Location:
Wednesday, October 16, 2019, 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. E.T.
Hunter College Silberman Building, 2180 3rd Ave at 119th St, 2nd Floor Terrace
Throughout the morning: Big Apple Crunches and activities for children, officiated by local elected officials (Great photo op!)

Activities will include:

Apple Face Painting (Hunter College Nutrition Club)
Apple Stamping (Hunter College Nutrition Club)
Apple Sandwiches (WSCAH)
Apple Drizzles (Wellness In The Schools)
Apple Goodie Bags (Harvest Home Markets)
Apple Trivia (Hunter College Nutrition Club)

. . . and many more!
Some notable participants (subject to scheduling conflicts):

Council Member Diana Ayala

Council Member Kallos

Participating schools:

P.S. 7
The Association to Benefit Children
And more…

Women in Food
2019-09-17 08:45 - 10:15 | Hunter College Silberman Building, 2180 3rd Ave at 119th St, 2nd Floor Terrace, NY
Food Policy For Breakfast Series
Discussion + Networking + Healthy Breakfast Served
(This is a FREE Event)
Women in Food
Restaurant and Food Culture: Gender, Equal Pay, Sexual Harassment, Sustainability, Career Advancement and More
Panelists:

Camille Becerra, Chef, Food Stylist and Recipe Developer

Katy Sparks, Founder, Katy Sparks Culinary Consulting

Naama Tamir, Owner, Lighthouse Restaurant

Diana Tandia, Chef-owner, Berber Street Food

Moderated by Liz Neumark, CEO, Great Performances
Healthy Breakfast Will Be Served @ 8:30am, Talk at 9am
Register for the event here.
Can’t make the event in person? Watch the livestream here.

The Borough Presidents on NYC Food Policy
2019-04-09 08:30 - 10:30 | Online Zoom Webinar, 2180 Third Avenue at 119th Street, New York, NY, United States
Food Policy For Breakfast Series
Discussion + Networking + Healthy Breakfast Served
(This is a FREE Event)
The Borough Presidents on NYC Food Policy

Brooklyn Borough President Eric L. Adams
Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr.
Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer
Staten Island Borough President James S. Oddo

Moderator: Charles Platkin, PhD, JD, MPH, executive director of the Hunter College NYC Food Policy Center
Healthy Breakfast Will Be Served @ 8:30am, Talk at 9am
Watch Livestream of the event HERE

GMOs-Science, Ethics, Risks, Regulations and Food Security
2019-03-12 09:00 - 10:30 | Hunter College Silberman Building, 2180 3rd Ave at 119th St, 2nd Floor Terrace, NY
Food Policy For Breakfast Series
Discussion + Networking + Healthy Breakfast Served
(This is a FREE Event)
GMOs-Science, Ethics, Risks, Regulations and Food Security

Arthur Caplan, PhD, Drs. William F and Virginia Connolly Mitty Professor and founding head of the Division of Medical Ethics, NYU School of Medicine
Fred Gould, PhD – Distinguished professor of Evolutionary Biology in the Department of Plant Pathology at North Carolina State University
Michael Hansen, PhD, Senior Staff Scientist, Consumers Union
Greg Jaffe, JD, Director, Project on Biotechnology for Center for Science in the Public Interest
Jonathan Latham, PhD, Co-founder and Executive Director, Bioscience Resource Project
Matthew Willmann, Director, Plant Transformation Facility, Cornell University

This panel will explore the latest research concerning GMOs and their impact on human and environmental health.

Moderator: Charles Platkin, PhD, JD, MPH, executive director of the Hunter College NYC Food Policy Center
Healthy Breakfast Will Be Served @ 8:30am, Talk at 9am
Register HERE

Everything but the Food: Real Ideas to Fix Real Problems
2019-02-26 09:00 - 10:15 | Online Zoom Webinar, 2180 Third Avenue at 119th Street, New York, NY, United States
Food Policy For Breakfast Series
Discussion + Networking + Healthy Breakfast Served
(This is a FREE Event)
Everything but the Food

Shanna Castillo, Director, Resident Economic Empowerment & Sustainability, NYCHA
Ray Figueroa-Reyes, President, NYC Community Garden Coalition
Tony Hillery, Executive Director and Founder, Harlem Grown
Karen Pearl, President and CEO, God’s Love We Deliver

This panel will explore what impacts food security and how we are fighting the issues that create food injustice.

Moderator: Charles Platkin, PhD, JD, MPH, executive director of the Hunter College NYC Food Policy Center
Healthy Breakfast Will Be Served @ 8:30am, Talk at 9am
Register HERE

Unsavory Truth: How Food Companies Skew the Science of What We Eat
2018-12-04 08:30 - 10:15 | Online Zoom Webinar, 2180 Third Avenue at 119th Street, New York, NY, United States
Food Policy For Breakfast Series
Discussion + Networking + Healthy Breakfast Served
(This is a FREE Event)
Unsavory Truth: How Food Companies Skew the Science of What We Eat
A presentation and conversation with Marion Nestle, PhD, MPH about her latest book. This seminar will discuss how the food industry manipulates nutrition science and recommendations about what we can do about it.
Moderator: Charles Platkin, PhD, JD, MPH, executive director of the Hunter College NYC Food Policy Center
Healthy Breakfast Will Be Served @ 8:30am, Talk at 9am
Register HERE

Children as Change Agents for Healthy Eating
2018-11-06 08:30 - 10:15 | Online Zoom Webinar, 2180 Third Avenue at 119th Street, New York, NY, United States
Food Policy For Breakfast Series
Discussion + Networking + Healthy Breakfast Served
(This is a FREE Event)
Children as Messengers

La Tonya Assanah, Greenhouse Manager, Harlem Grown
Nancy Easton, Executive Director and Co-founder, Wellness in the Schools
Rosa Marruffo, MA, Program Manager, Edible Schoolyard NYC
Andrea Rothenberg, MS, LCSW, Director, Department of Health Education, Mount Sinai Hospital
Christina Zarcadoolas, PhD, Sociolinguist, Public Understanding of Health & Science, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Healthliteracylab.com

This panel will explore using children as messengers to influence healthy eating habits at home, at school and in their communities.

Moderator: Charles Platkin, PhD, JD, MPH, executive director of the Hunter College NYC Food Policy Center
Healthy Breakfast Will Be Served @ 8:30am, Talk at 9am
Register HERE

Nutrition and Aging in New York City
2018-10-23 08:30 - 10:15 | Online Zoom Webinar, 2180 Third Avenue at 119th Street, New York, NY, United States
Food Policy For Breakfast Series
Discussion + Networking + Healthy Breakfast Served
(This is a FREE Event)
Nutrition and Aging in New York City

Jessica Balboni, CPC, Director, the Center at Lenox Hill Neighborhood House
Ruth Finkelstein, MA, ScD, Executive Director, Brookdale Center for Healthy Aging
David Nocenti, JD, Executive Director, Union Settlement Association
Caryn Resnick, MSW, Deputy Commissioner, DFTA
Shulamit Warren, Director of Policy and Special Projects, Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer’s Office

Like the rest of the United States, the average age in NYC is getting older as more and more from the Baby Boomer generation retire, and advances in medicine increase the average life expectancy.
From 2005 to 2015, the number of New Yorkers over 65 grew by 19.2 percent—more than double the rate of the total population (7.47 percent), and more than triple the rate of the population under 65 (5.9 percent).
More than 1.1 million seniors or about 13 percent of the city’s population call NYC home. This number is expected to increase to more than 1.4 million by 2040. What steps is New York City taking to ensure this population has access to age-appropriate, nutritious food?

Moderator: Charles Platkin, PhD, JD, MPH, executive director of the Hunter College NYC Food Policy Center
Healthy Breakfast Will Be Served @ 8:30am, Talk at 9am
Register HERE

Growing Food Right Here in NYC
2018-09-25 08:30 - 10:15 | Online Zoom Webinar, 2180 Third Avenue at 119th Street, New York, NY, United States
Food Policy For Breakfast Series
Discussion + Networking + Healthy Breakfast Served
(This is a FREE Event)
Growing Food Right Here in NYC
Where Are We — And What Needs to Happen for Urban Ag to Increase, Improve and Have a Significant Impact

Crystal Eksi, Urban Designer, NYC Department of City Planning
Council Member Rafael Espinal
Henry Gordon-Smith, Founder and Managing Director, Agritecture
Gerard Lordahl, Gardens & The Governor’s Island Teaching Garden Director, GrowNYC
Danielle Spiegel-Feld, Executive Director, Guarini Center Environmental, Energy and Land Use Law, NYU School of Law

This seminar will discuss the current state of urban agriculture and examine challenges and opportunities in NYC.

Moderator: Charles Platkin, PhD, JD, MPH, executive director of the Hunter College NYC Food Policy Center
Healthy Breakfast Will Be Served @ 8:45am, Talk at 9am
Register HERE

How Can Technology Help the Food System?
2018-05-08 08:30 - 10:15 | Online Zoom Webinar, 2180 Third Avenue at 119th Street, New York, NY, United States
Discussion + Networking + Healthy Breakfast Served
(This is a FREE Event)
How Can Technology Help the Food System?
“Food technology” traditionally referred to the science behind food processing and preservation through much of the 20th century; today food tech is working to find innovative solutions to improve access to healthy food, reduce food waste and mitigate agriculture’s impact on climate change. This panel will feature leaders in the food tech industry who are finding creative solutions to food-related issues in New York City and beyond.
Panelists:

Jonathan Chin, CEO, Share Meals
Jennifer Goggin, Director of Retail at Crave Food Systems
Robert Lee, CEO, Rescuing Leftover Cuisine
Bryan Moran, Client Adoption Lead, Plentiful
Marc Oshima, Co-founder and CMO, AeroFarms

Moderator: Charles Platkin, PhD, JD, MPH, executive director of the Hunter College NYC Food Policy Center
(Doors open @ 8:30am, Event 9am-10:15am)
Healthy breakfast will be served prior to 9am event

Registration Required: This is a Free Event

RSVP here

Film Screening & Discussion: James Beard - America's First Foodie
2018-04-24 17:00 - 19:00 | Online Zoom Webinar, 2180 Third Avenue at 119th Street, New York, NY, United States
Film Screening & Discussion
James Beard – America’s First Foodie

Introduction by Charles Platkin, PhD, JD, MPH

Discussion with Elizabeth Federici (producer and director), Kathleen Squires (producer), Alison Tozzi Liu (James Beard Foundation) and Clark Wolf (restaurant/food business consultant and forbes.com columnist) following the film

(Doors open @ 5:00pm, screening 5:30pm- 6:30pm, discussion 6:30-7:00 pm)
Refreshments served prior to the film

Hosted by the Hunter College NYC Food Policy Center

Registration Required: The event is free

Food and Health Media
2018-04-19 08:30 - 10:15 | Online Zoom Webinar, 2180 Third Avenue at 119th Street, New York, NY, United States
Food Policy For Breakfast Series
Discussion + Networking + Healthy Breakfast Served
(This is a FREE Event)
Food and Health Media
This panel discussion will explore the role of the media in covering food and matters related to health, safety, sustainability, hunger and waste, and will also take a look at how that coverage influences our relationship with food.
Panelists:

Dan Charles, correspondent, NPR News
Joe Fassler, features editor, New Food Economy
Samuel Fromartz, co-founder and editor-in-chief, Food and Environment Reporting Network
Ariel Lauren Wilson, editor, Edible Manhattan and Edible Brooklyn

Moderator: Charles Platkin, PhD, JD, MPH, executive director of the Hunter College NYC Food Policy Center
Healthy Breakfast Will Be Served @ 8:30am, Talk at 9am

Legislating Better Health Through Food Policy
2018-03-20 08:30 - 10:15 | Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College, 47-49 E 65th St, New York, NY, 10065
Food Policy For Breakfast Series
Discussion + Networking + Healthy Breakfast Served
(This is a FREE Event)
Legislating Better Health Through Food Policy
Why is it so difficult to get seemingly positive food legislation passed in a progressive NYC? And what does food have to do with human rights?
Panelists:

Alex Beauchamp, Northeast Region Director, Food & Water Watch
Margaret Brown, JD, staff attorney, New York Program, Natural Resources Defense Council NY Program
Smita Narula, JD, MA, distinguished lecturer and interim director, Human Rights Program, Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College
Margot Pollans, JD, assistant professor of law, Pace Law School; Faculty Director of the Pace-NRDC Food Law Initiative

Moderator: Charles Platkin, PhD, JD, MPH, executive director of the Hunter College NYC Food Policy Center
Healthy Breakfast Will Be Served @ 8:30am, Talk at 9am
Hosted by the
Hunter College NYC Food Policy Center and
Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College

What Are You Really Eating? Food Transparency Exposed
2018-02-13 08:30 - 10:15 | Online Zoom Webinar, 2180 Third Avenue at 119th Street, New York, NY, United States
Food Policy For Breakfast Series
Discussion + Networking + Healthy Breakfast Served
(This is a FREE Event)
What Are You Really Eating? Food Transparency Exposed

A presentation and conversation with Urvashi Rangan, PhD, Chief Science Advisor, GRACE Communications Foundation.

This seminar will discuss the dizzying array of food labels and consumer demand for increased transparency.

Moderator: Charles Platkin, PhD, JD, MPH, executive director of the Hunter College NYC Food Policy Center
Healthy Breakfast Will Be Served @ 8:30am, Talk at 9am
Register HERE
