Climate and/or Food Systems

CHAIN GEM Forum (Climate, Environment, Health, Agriculture, and Improved Nutrition) - Navigating Research Funding: A Panel on Advancing Research Connecting Climate/Environment, Health, and Food Systems

Chair(s)

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  Naglaa El-Abbadi, PhD

  Scientist III
  Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging (HNRCA) at Tufts University
  Boston, Massachusetts, United States

  Disclosure(s): No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.
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  Allison Unger, PhD (she/her/hers)

  Senior Director, Nutrition Research
  National Dairy Council
  Rosemont, Illinois, United States

  Disclosure(s): National Dairy Council: Employee (Ongoing)

Speaker(s)

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  Sara Elnakib, PhD, MPH, RDN (she/her/hers)

  Department Chair/Associate Professor
  Department of Family & Community Health Sciences
  Rutgers University
  New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States

  Disclosure(s): No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.
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  Caitlin Grady, PhD

  Associate Professor, Department of Engineering Management and Systems Engineering and Director of Research and Policy, Global Food Institute
  George Washington University
  Washington, District of Columbia, United States

  Disclosure information not submitted.
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  Michael Lavender

  Policy Director
  National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition
  Washington, District of Columbia, United States

  Disclosure information not submitted.
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  Catherine Woteki, PhD (she/her/hers)

  Distinguished Institute Fellow, UVA's Biocomplexity Institute; Past Chair, ASN Foundation Board of Trustees; Former Member of the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST)
  University of Virginia; American Society for Nutrition Foundation
  Washington, Virginia, United States

  Disclosure(s): No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.

Join the CHAIN GEM forum to hear invited panelists share their experiences navigating research in intersecting spaces of climate/environmental health, human health, and food systems. The session will include case studies of resilience in research programs, discussion of how to position your research to withstand changes in funder prioritieschanges, what we can learn from taking a historical perspective to analyze current events, and how to best position these topics within the Farm Bill and annual agriculture appropriation processes.