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th Annual Nutrition Symposium7TheCenter for Research in Nutrition“Healthy Eating In Context: Nexus of Food andandHealth Disparities, and theEnvironmental Justice”Environment & Sustainability Program,Presents:Co-Hosted By:The School of the Earth, Ocean and Environment andThe Department of Environmental Health SciencesFriday, March 31, 201711:30am- 4:30pm- SymposiumCarolina Alumni CenterKeynote Speaker:Representative Harold Mitchell, Jr.District 31- Spartanburg CountyKeynote Address: “The ReGenesis Project: MovingSpartanburg, SC from Surviving to Thriving”
Agenda11:30am - 12:00pmRegistration, Student Poster Session12:00pm - 12:10pmWelcoming RemarksSonya Jones, Ph.D.Director, Center for Research in Nutrition and Health DisparitiesAssociate Professor, Department of Health Promotion,Education, and BehaviorArnold School of Public HealthUniversity of South CarolinaGwendelyn Geidel, Ph.D., JDDirector, Environment & Sustainability ProgramResearch Professor, School of the Earth, Ocean, andEnvironmentCollege of Arts and SciencesUniversity of South Carolina12:10pm - 12:30pmLunch is served12:30pm - 12:35pmIntroduction of SpeakerDwayne Porter, Ph.D.Director of Graduate Studies and Associate ProfessorDepartment of Environmental Health SciencesArnold School of Public HealthUniversity of South Carolina12:35pm - 1:10pmKeynote Address: “The ReGenesis Project: MovingSpartanburg, SC from Surviving to Thriving” (Over Lunch)Speaker Bio: Rep. Harold Mitchell, Jr. is a respected leaderwith a long record of achievements in affordable housing,environmental justice, community revitalization, and publicpolicy. He is the Founder of ReGenesis in 1998 and served as theExecutive Director of this non-profit organization until 2012.During his tenure ReGenesis leveraged over 250million inrevitalization, clean up, housing, job training, federally qualifiedhealth centers, and infrastructure. Rep. Mitchell also established jobtraining initiatives as part of a Hope 6 Grant in 2005 for residents ofpublic housing and residents of a local homeless shelter, many ofwhom were veterans. As the Executive Director of ReGenesis, a notfor profit developer of quality affordable housing, he has areputation for a steadfast commitment to voting rights. Moreover,he is a respected advocate for racial justice and served as theChairman of the SC Legislative Black Caucus during the 2012-14cycle.
1:15pm – 2:00pmSession I: Public Health Impacts of Climate ChangeAn examination of trends and current/emerging food andenvironmental challenges and solutions arising from climatechange, sanitation and subsequent health problems. Presenterswill provide 10 minute presentations followed by a Q & Asession with the audience and/or panel discussion.FacilitatorCarol Boggs, Ph.D.Director, School of the Earth, Ocean & EnvironmentProfessor, Dept. of Biological Sciences and School of theEarth, Ocean & EnvironmentCollege of Arts and SciencesUniv. of South CarolinaPanelistsLucy (Annang) Ingram, Ph.D.Associate ProfessorProfessional Online MPH Program DirectorDepartment of Health Promotion, Education and BehaviorArnold School of Public HealthUniversity of South Carolina“Community-based Partnerships in the Wake of anEnvironmental Disaster in SC”Alan Decho, M.Sc., Ph.D.Associate Dean for ResearchProfessor, Microbial Interactions LaboratoryDepartment of Environmental Health SciencesArnold School of Public HealthUniversity of South Carolina“Your Gut Microbiome and Food You Eat”Geoffrey I. Scott, Ph.D.Clinical Professor and ChairDepartment of Environmental Health SciencesArnold School of Public HealthUniversity of South Carolina“Contaminants of Emerging Concern Potentially AffectingSeafood Safety”2:00pm - 2:05Break
2:05pm - 2:50pmSession II: When Communities Lead Food andEnvironmental ChangeAn examination of community responses to trends andcurrent/emerging food and environmental challenges andsolutions arising from food production and availability, dietarypatterns and poverty. Presenters provide 10 minutepresentations followed by a Q & A session with the audienceand/or panel discussion.FacilitatorBrie Turner-McGrievy, Ph.D., M.S., R.D.Assistant Professor, Department of Health Promotion,Education, and BehaviorArnold School of Public HealthUniversity of South CarolinaPanelistsTrisha Mandes, M.S., M.P.H.N.Nutritionist & Program CoordinatorIMAGINE STUDYDepartment of Health Promotion, Education and BehaviorArnold School of Public HealthUniversity of South Carolina“The Effects of Plant-Based Eating on Health and theEnvironment: Individual and Community Solutions forImplementation”J. Porter Lillis, Ph.D.Assistant Professor of SociologyDepartment of Sociology and Criminal JusticeUniversity of North Carolina at Pembroke“The Illusion of Choice- Freedom to Choose and SuperNormal Stimulus”Keithrick AlexanderFounder, Axiom Farms CooperativeManager, Dianne's Call Mobile Markethttp://www.diannescall.org/“OPEN (Optimizing People’s Everyday Nutrition) Path
2:55pm – 3:50Roundtable Panel and DiscussionWhere Urban Meets Rural: Nutritional Impacts of DownHome EcologyAll over the world, in hyper-urban environments, one of the thingsthat gets lost is the huge nutritional benefit of living embedded in arural ecology. Urban communities often gain access to an increase incaloric intake—but at the expense of the broad nutritional intakeafforded by a wide range of scavenged, gathered, hunted, casuallycultivated, intentionally cultivated, and locally-exchanged foodstuffs.We want to open up this discussion to help people see what gets lostin community movement from field- and river-side to grocery storeaisles.Facilitator/PanelistJenny PournelleResearch Associate ProfessorSchool of the Earth, Ocean and EnvironmentCollege of Arts and SciencesUniversity of South Carolina“Marsh Collapse, Community Collapse: Nutrition and HealthImpacts of Wetlands Destruction in Southern Iraq”PanelistsDale Baughman Rhodus, West Columbia, SC.“Farm-to-Table Life in Williston: Then and Now”Urbie West, Rest Park Farm and Pinckney’s Produce CSA,Beaufort, SC – SC Farm Bureau National Delegate.“Building Farm-to-Table Communities”3:50pm - 4:15pmPoster Session/Afternoon Snack4:15pm- 4:30pmDoor Prizes, Poster Competition Winner AnnouncementMary Wilson, MPHDirector of Capacity BuildingCenter for Research in Nutrition and Health DisparitiesArnold School of Public HealthUniversity of South CarolinaClosing RemarksSonya Jones, Ph.D.Director, Center for Research in Nutrition and Health DisparitiesAssociate Professor, Department of Health Promotion,Education, and BehaviorArnold School of Public HealthUniversity of South Carolina
Student Poster PresentationsPoster #1Molly Beman & Grace WhitbeckDepartment of Health Promotion, Education, and BehaviorArnold School of Public HealthUniversity of South Carolina“Examining the Role of Primary Care Providers in thePrevention of Childhood Obesity”Poster #2Eleanor DavisGeography DepartmentUniversity of South Carolina“What’s salt got to do with it? Salinity Remote Sensing ofAgricultural Lands in the Albemarle-Pamlico Peninsula, NorthCarolina”Poster #3Cameron HubbardDepartment of Nutrition and Health Care ManagementAppalachian State University“Food Security Status in Rural North Carolina: ExploringCoping Strategies among Community Residents”Poster #4Katelin HudakPublic Policy DepartmentUniversity of North Carolina-Charlotte“The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program andChildhood Obesity: A Review of the Evidence
7TH ANNUAL NUTRITION SYMPOSIUM PLANNING COMMITTEESonya Jones, PhDDirector, Center for Research in Nutrition and Health DisparitiesAssociate Professor, Department of Health Promotion, Education, and BehaviorArnold School of Public HealthUniversity of South CarolinaOrganizer/ChairpersonMary Wilson, MPHDirector of Capacity BuildingCenter for Research in Nutrition and Health DisparitiesArnold School of Public HealthUniversity of South CarolinaCo-ChairpersonRanina Outing, MHADirector of CommunicationsCenter for Research in Nutrition and Health DisparitiesArnold School of Public HealthUniversity of South CarolinaMembersJessica Barnes, Ph.D.Assistant ProfessorDepartment of GeographyCollege of Arts and SciencesUniversity of South CarolinaCarol Boggs, Ph.D.Director, School of the Earth, Ocean & EnvironmentProfessor, Dept. of Biological Sciences and School of the Earth, Ocean & EnvironmentCollege of Arts and SciencesUniversity of South CarolinaGwendelyn Geidel, Ph.D., JDUndergraduate Director, School of the Earth, Ocean and Environment (SEOE)Research Professor, SEOECollege of Arts and SciencesUniversity of South CarolinaDwayne Porter, Ph.D.Director of Graduate Studies and Associate ProfessorDepartment of Environmental Health SciencesArnold School of Public HealthUniversity of South Carolina
A Very Special Thank You to our StaffCenter for Research in Nutrition and Health DisparitiesArnold School of Public HealthUniversity of South CarolinaJason Craig, Ph.D. StudentGraduate Research AssistantAshley Page, M.S.W.Community OrganizerCarrie Draper, M.S.W.Holly Pope, Ph.D.Director of EvaluationHaley LittlejohnWork-study StudentLeTanya WilliamsCommunity OrganizerWendy McKenzieBusiness ManagerNick Younginer, Ph.D.Post-Doctoral ScholarDirector of Policy & Partnership DevelopmentSPONSORED BY:
College of Arts and Sciences University of South Carolina "Marsh Collapse, Community Collapse: Nutrition and Health Impacts of Wetlands Destruction in Southern Iraq" Panelists Dale Baughman Rhodus, West Columbia, SC. "Farm-to-Table Life in Williston: Then and Now" Urbie West, Rest Park Farm and Pinckney's Produce CSA,
