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Sunday, July 26, 2026
4:30 PM - 5:30 PM ET
The Nutritional Status of Americans Monitored Over Nearly 25 Years in NHANES
Chair: Christine M. Pfeiffer, PHD – National Center for Environmental Health (NCEH)/Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC)
Speaker: Naman Ahluwalia, PhD – NHANES, NCHS, CDC, US Dept of Health & Human Services
Speaker: Jaime J. Gahche, PhD, MPH – National Institutes of Health
Speaker: WenYen Juan, PhD (she/her/hers) – Food and Drug Administration, Human Foods Program, Office of Nutrition and Food Labeling
Speaker: Christine M. Pfeiffer, PHD – National Center for Environmental Health (NCEH)/Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC)
Speaker: Maya R. Sternberg, PhD – Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Career and Professional DevelopmentClinical and Translational NutritionCommunity and Public Health NutritionPopulation Science/Epidemiology

Monday, July 27, 2026
8:30 AM - 9:30 AM ET
A 20-year Retrospective of the Healthy Eating Index
Chair: Jill Reedy, PhD, MPH, RDN – National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health
Speaker: Kirsten A. Herrick, PhD, MSc (she/her/hers) – National Institutes of Health
Speaker: Jennifer Lerman, MPH, RD, LDN – National Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute
Speaker: Jill Reedy, PhD, MPH, RDN – National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health
Speaker: TusaRebecca Pannucci, PhD, MPH, RDN – USDA
Speaker: Marissa M. Shams-White, PhD, MSTOM, MS, MPH – American Cancer Society
Career and Professional DevelopmentCellular and Physiological Nutrition/MetabolismClinical and Translational NutritionCommunity and Public Health Nutrition

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM ET
Ultra-Processed Foods and Chronic Disease: Current Research and Future Priorities
Chair: Bramaramba J. Kowtha, MS, RDN, LDN – National Institutes of Health Office of Disease Prevention
Speaker: Valerie L. Darcey, PhD, MS, RD, LD – National Institutes of Health, NIDDK
Speaker: Kaelyn Burns, PhD (she/her/hers) – National Cancer Institute
Speaker: Aaron Hengist, PhD (he/him/his) – National Institutes of Health, NIDDK
Speaker: Nicholas Jury, PhD (he/him/his) – National Institutes of Health Office of Nutrition Research
Speaker: Claudine Kavanaugh, PhD, MPH, RD – Food and Drug Administration
Speaker: Leah Lipsky, PhD, MHS – Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)
Cellular and Physiological Nutrition/MetabolismClimate and/or Food SystemsClinical and Translational NutritionCommunity and Public Health NutritionPopulation Science/Epidemiology

Tuesday, July 28, 2026
8:30 AM - 9:30 AM ET
Federally Funded Multilevel Nutrition Interventions and Programs to Address Diet-related Chronic Diseases
Chair: Alison G.M Brown, PhD, RDN, FAHA (she/her/hers) – National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health
Speaker: Andrew Bremer, MD, MAS, PhD – National Institutes of Health
Speaker: Joel Gittelsohn, PhD, MS – Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Speaker: Diane M. Harris, PhD, MPH, CHES (she/her/hers) – Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Speaker: Tashara M. Leak, PhD, RDN (she/her/hers) – Cornell University
Speaker: Jean Pascale, PhD, RD, CHES – National Institute of Food and Agriculture, USDA
Speaker: Susan Veldheer, DEd, RD – Penn State University, College of Medicine
Cellular and Physiological Nutrition/MetabolismClinical and Translational NutritionCommunity and Public Health NutritionPopulation Science/Epidemiology