View our UPDATED guide to scientific sessions focusing on food system issues.

Newly added:  The Health of the Chesapeake Bay: Microcosm of Global Watershed Stresses, 10:30AM-12:00PM; Wednesday, November 11, 2009; PCC 107B.

Be sure to mark your calendars for these two important highlights:

Special Session: Public Health in an Era of Resource Depletion: Ensuring Access to Water Food and Energy
Monday, November 9^th, 8:30am-10:00am. More info here.

Film showing: Food, Inc. 
Tuesday, November 10^th, 10:30am-12:00pm
Part of the APHA Film Festival. See the film’s website.

We are pleased to invite you to the 4^th Annual Networking Reception of the APHA Food and Environment Working Group. Please join us for this delicious event featuring local, sustainable hors d’oeuvres and stimulating conversation with like-minded colleagues and food system professionals from Philadelphia.

Learn more about the event via this flyer, and feel free to share it with others attending the APHA Annual Meeting in Philadelphia.

Space is limited, please RSVP to Rebecca Klein by November 2nd, 2009 to rklein@jhsph.edu

Walking directions to the reception: http://tinyurl.com/y8h4jfx
Location: William Way Community Center, 1315 Spruce St
Time:  Tuesday, November 10^th from 6:30pm-8:00pm.

Less than 10 spaces left!  Sign up by November 6^th (or until tour is filled) to join the APHA Food and Environment Working Group in an exciting and informative tour of innovative projects in Philadelphia that are helping to create a healthy, sustainable food system.

View the event flyer in a new window.  Feel free to share the link with interested collagues.

More information and registration are at: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/85009

If you have questions, please contact Rebecca Klein: rklein@jhsph.edu, 410-502-7578

On your way to or from the APHA Food and Environment Working Group’s networking reception, consider checking out this panel discussing food access and community development!   View more info here.

The American Public Health Association’s (APHA) Food and Environment Working Group is pleased to announce the availability of scholarships for Philadelphia area Food System professionals and students to attend the APHA Annual Meeting in Philadelphia, November 7^th-11^th, 2009. These scholarships are made possible through a donation from a food systems grant program, administered by the Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission with funding from the William Penn Foundation.

The APHA conference is a large event, offering wonderful opportunities for learning and networking across disciplines. It is described by APHA as the “oldest and largest gathering of public health professionals in the world, attracting more than 13,000 national and international physicians, administrators, nurses, educators, researchers, epidemiologists, and related health specialists. APHA’s meeting program addresses current and emerging health science, policy, and practice issues in an effort to prevent disease and promote health.” Attending the conference’s scientific sessions and networking events will enable local professionals to connect their work and interests in the food system to public health efforts going on outside Philadelphia, as well as educate health professionals from around the U.S. and beyond about the innovative work in Philadelphia.

To apply please follow the directions in this PDF.

DEADLINE October 15, 9:00AM EDT