From School Food to SNAP: Food and Nutrition Policy Perspectives from a Former Insider

From School Food to SNAP: Food and Nutrition Policy Perspectives from a Former Insider
1:45 a.m. - 2:45 p.m. | Constitution Ballroom |
Speaker: Kevin Concannon, former Under Secretary of the U.S.
Department of Agriculture’s Food, Nutrition, and Consumer Services
As the principal federal official overseeing the majority of domestic anti-hunger and nutrition policy and programs for the previous eight years, the former Under Secretary will highlight key accomplishments along with major challenges facing the US during this time, and also the respective roles of state/federal and local government agencies’ interventions designed to address these challenges. Particularly noteworthy are the first major and science-based improvements in school-based meal programs in decades, improvements in the WIC food package and nutrition education, wholesale responses through SNAP to the deepest economic recession in seventy years, issuance of two cycles of the Dietary Guidelines for Americans, and increased promotion of evidence based strategies in healthier eating and nutrition education.