Strengthening Policy and Regulation for Sustainable, Healthy Diets in a Changing Food System

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Vivica Kraak, Samuel Godefroy

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• Vivica Kraak, PhD, MS, RDN - Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech)
• Samuel Godefroy, PhD - Universite Laval
   

WEBINAR DESCRIPTION

This webinar will explore the opportunities and challenges for governments to strengthen policy coherence and regulatory oversight to encourage businesses to develop and market novel food and beverage products that support sustainable healthy dietary patterns to advance personal and planetary health. The speakers will examine case studies of countries that have recently updated national food-based dietary guidelines that include plant-based dietary patterns, and the policies and regulatory oversight needed to ensure the safety and healthfulness of novel proteins (plant, animal and hybrid) to meet human needs while supporting environmental sustainability and climate mitigation goals.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

1. Define policy coherence and discuss examples in selected countries of policies and regulations used to balance the dimensions of sustainability to encourage nutrition and human health, ecological health, economic prosperity and social equity
2. Describe how business innovation, technology and marketing may be used to encourage consumers to try novel proteins that support sustainable dietary patterns and regenerative food systems for people and the planet.
3. Understand how consumers prioritize choice for healthy and sustainable products within an evolving food ecosystem.

Moderator: Rickey Yada, PhD - University of Alberta 

ABOUT THE SPEAKERS

Vivica I. Kraak, PhD, MS, RDN  is Associate Professor of Food and Nutrition Policy in the Department of Human Nutrition, Foods, and Exercise at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia. She has over 35 years of research and teaching about policies and practices for a transition toward more equitable and sustainable diets and regenerative food systems. Dr. Kraak’s current research examines food systems governance approaches to enable the transition and transformation of diets for personal and planetary health; how national food-based dietary guidelines may support sustainable dietary patterns and healthy hydration for populations; how digital communications and technology may be used to encourage sustainable lifestyles; and evaluating accountability for personal and planetary health. Vivica earned her PhD degree in population health from Deakin University in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia (2014); MS degree in nutritional sciences from Case Western Reserve University and dietetic internship at the University Hospitals of Cleveland in Ohio (1989); and BS degree in nutritional sciences from Cornell University in Ithaca, New York (1986). Vivica has held positions as an Assistant Professor at Virginia Tech (2014-2021); Research Fellow at Deakin University’s World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Centre for Obesity in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia (2010-2013); Nutrition and Physical Activity Advisor for Save the Children’s U.S. programs (2006-2010); Senior Program Officer at the Food and Nutrition Board, Health and Medicine Division of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM) in Washington, DC (2002-2006); and Research Nutritionist at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY (1994-2000). She is a member of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, American Public Health Association, American Society for Nutrition (ASN), and  ASN Committee on Advocacy and Science Policy . She served on the NASEM Food Forum (2016-2022) and was a fellow for The Lancet Commission on the Global Syndemic (2016-2019).

Samuel Godefroy, PhD is the former Director General of Health Canada’s Food Directorate, Canada’s Food Standard Setting body and a former Vice Chair of the FAO/WHO Codex Alimentarius Commission. Dr.Godefroy has over 25 years’ experience in food regulatory science and policy including 15 years, at the Executive level leading food regulatory teams and organizations at Health Canada. Prof. Godefroy was elected and serves as President of the International Union of Food Science and Technology IUFoST for the period 2024-2026.  Prof. Godefroy is the founder and the current president of the Global Food Regulatory Science Society (GFoRSS), a disciplinay group of IUFoST aiming to promote food regulatory science disciplines at the international level.

Samuel is currently Full Professor of Food Risk Analysis and Regulatory Policies at Laval University, in Quebec City, Canada and is leading the development of a Food Risk Analysis and Regulatory Excellence Platform (PARERA), hosted by the Institute of Nutrition and Functional Foods (INAF) of Université Laval.

Original Source: "CNS Education Webinars" Wednesday, March 12, 2025

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Last Updated: March 13, 2025