Fall Forum 2023
November 1-3, 2023
National Housing Center
1201 15th Street NW
Washington, DC 20005
Feeding Hearts and Minds: Food as Medicine, Divided Media, and Implications for Public Policy
Agenda
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Wednesday, November 1
12:00 – 1:00 p.m. Registration
1:00 – 1:45 p.m. Opening Keynote: Working Together for a Stronger Medicare
Meena Seshamani
Deputy Administrator and Director, Center for Medicare,
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
1:45 – 2:30 p.m. Keynote: Medicaid and CHIP Update
Kate Massey
Executive Director
Medicaid and CHIP Payment and Access Commission
2:30 – 3:15 p.m. Health Updates from the Hill
Conor Sheehey
Senior Health Policy Advisor
United States Senate Committee on Finance (Minority Staff)
Eva DuGoff
Senior Health Advisor
United States Senate Committee on Finance, (Majority Staff)
3:15 – 3:30 p.m. Break
3:30 – 4:45 p.m. Philanthropic Strategies to Advance Public Policy
4:45 – 5:15 p.m 'Advocacy' Isn’t a Dirty Word – Boosting Public Health’s Ability to Engage in the Policy World – Book Discussion
Shelley Hearne
Deans Sommer & Klag Professor for Public Health Advocacy and Director, Lerner Center for Public Health Advocacy
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
5:15 – 5:30 p.m. Closing Reflections
5:30 p.m. Adjourn
5:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. Networking Reception
Thursday, November 2
8:00 – 9:00 a.m. Registration and Breakfast
9:00 – 10:00 a.m. Keynote: State of Food as Medicine
Alissa Wassung
Executive Director
Food Is Medicine Coalition
10:00 – 11:00 a.m. Federal Agenda for Food as Medicine
Colin Pekruhn (Moderator)
Program Director
Grantmakers In Health
Caree Cotwright, PhD, RDN
Director of Health Equity and Nutrition Security, Food and Nutrition Services
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Rachel Fisher
Senior Advisor, President's Council on Sports, Fitness & Nutrition, Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Stacy Hammer
National Nutrition Consultant, Division of Diabetes Treatment and Prevention, Office of Clinical and Preventive Services, Indian Health Service
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Christine Going
Senior Advisor, Food Security Program Office, Veterans Health Administration
U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Opportunities for Partnership and Investment Around Food as Medicine
12:00 – 1:45 p.m. Lauren LeRoy Health Policy Lecture Luncheon
Dr. Robert Califf
Commissioner of Food and Drugs
U.S. Food and Drug Administration
1:45 – 2:00 p.m. Break
2:00 – 3:30 p.m. Building the Food as Medicine Movement: Opportunities, Innovations, and Filling the Gaps
Brent Ling (Moderator)
Director of External Affairs
Wholesome Wave
Jenn Bass
Executive Director
Hunger & Health Coalition
Jill Birnbaum
Senior Vice President of Advocacy
American Heart Association
Ismail Samad
Interim Executive Director
Corbin Hill Food Project
Pamela Schwartz
Executive Director, Community Health
Kaiser Permanente
3:30 – 4:45 p.m. Philanthropy’s Role in Moving Food as Medicine
Diana Johnson (Moderator)
Manager, Food Initiative
The Rockefeller Foundation
Kate Masuch
Director of Corporate Sustainability and Social Impact
Novo Nordisk
Trenae Simpson
Director, Grants and Programs
CareQuest Institute for Oral Health
Valerie Stewart
Director, Healthy Communities
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina Foundation
4:45 – 5:00 p.m. Closing Reflections
5:00 p.m. Adjourn
5:00 - 6:00 p.m. Funder Briefing and Conversation: USDA Summer Meals 2024
Stacy Dean
Deputy Under Secretary for Food, Nutrition, and Consumer Services
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Friday, November 3
8:00 – 9:00 a.m. Registration and Breakfast
9:00 – 9:40 a.m. Keynote: The Polarization of News, Erosion of Trust, and the Need for a Healthy Information Ecosystem
Kirsten Eddy
Senior Researcher
Center for News, Technology, and Innovation
9:40 – 10:45 a.m. Connecting Community: Exploring the Link Between Local Media, Public Trust, and Civic Engagement
David Rousseau (Moderator)
Publisher
KFF Health News
Ava Kian
Race and Health Equity Fellow
MinnPost
Tom Rosenstiel
Senior Fellow
The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research
Diane Webber
Supervising Editor, Health Policy
NPR
10:45 – 11:00 a.m. Break
11:00 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. The Need for News: Advancing Health and Civic Engagement with Investments in Local Media
Allyn Brooks-LaSure (Moderator)
Vice President, Communications
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Nora Ferrell
Director of Communications
Kate B. Reynolds Charitable Trust
Duc Luu
Director of Sustainability Initiatives/Journalism
John S. and James L. Knight Foundation
Steve Sapienza
Senior Strategist, News Partnerships
Pulitzer Center
12:15 – 1:00 p.m. Lunch
1:00 – 2:15 p.m. Creating a Healthier Information Ecosystem
Irving Washington (Moderator)
Senior Fellow for Misinformation and Trust
KFF
Kamara Jones
Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Mark Miller
Vice President of Communications
de Beaumont Foundation
Reed Tuckson
Co-Founder
Coalition for Trust in Health and Science