Healthy Food Pricing Strategies

Posted by on August 01, 2011

Healthy Eating Active Living (HEAL) Expert Speaker Series
Philadelphia Department of Public Health

“Healthy Food Pricing Strategies”
Dr. Lisa Powell, University of Illinois at Chicago

When:          Wednesday, August 10, 2011, 9am to 11am
(Light refreshments will be available starting at 8:30am)
Where:          Philadelphia Bar Association, 1101 Market Street, 11th Floor, Conference Room
RSVP:          Email Andrea.Dwyer@phila.gov by Monday, August 8, 2011

The presentation and discussion will include:
How food prices impact what we eat and our health
What groups are impacted more by food prices
Strategies to make the healthy choice the affordable choice

Lisa Powell, Ph.D. is an expert in the Economics of Health.  Dr. Powell is a Senior Research Scientist in the Institute for Health Research and a Policy and Research Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Illinois at Chicago.  Much of her current research is on assessing the importance of economic and environmental factors (such as food prices, sugar sweetened beverage taxes; access to food stores, eating places, and facilities for physical activity; and television food advertising exposure) on food consumption and physical activity behaviors and as determinants of body mass index and the prevalence of obesity, including related disparities.  Recent publications include Direct and Indirect Effects of Body Weight on Adult Wages (Economics and Human Biology); Characteristics of Prepared Food Sources in Low-Income Neighborhoods in Baltimore (Ecology of Food and Nutrition); Economic Contextual Factors and U.S. Adult Body Mass Index (American Journal of Agricultural Economics)

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