Encouraging Healthy Food Choices in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)
 
Encouraging Healthy Food Choices in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)

Tuesday, May 14, 2013
9:00 am - 11:00 am ET

Co-sponsored by
Grantmakers in Health and
American Society for Nutrition

Examining Financial and Other Incentives to Change Purchasing Patterns
This Altarum Institute Policy Roundtable will examine innovative approaches, including financial incentives, to encourage healthy food choices by SNAP program participants. We will also examine the added economic benefit that can occur when more SNAP dollars are spent on local food and circulate in the local economy. Speakers from Altarum’s Center for Food Assistance and Nutrition, the Bipartisan Policy Center, the Fair Food Network, the U.S. Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service, and the W. K. Kellogg Foundation will discuss what is being tested and what is known to be working in this critical effort to improve health status through healthier food purchases supported by SNAP.

Speakers

  • Senator Debbie Stabenow, Michigan (invited)
    Introductory remarks

  • Linda Jo Doctor
    W. K. Kellogg Foundation

  • Dan Glickman
    Former U.S. Secretary of Agriculture; Senior Fellow, Bipartisan Policy Center

  • Oran Hesterman
    Fair Food Network

  • Faith Mitchell
    Grantmakers in Health

  • Audrey Rowe
    Food and Nutrition Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture

  • Loren Bell
    Altarum Institute, panel moderator