October Data Career Conversations - Nutrition Security and Health Equity

Tuesday, Oct. 24, 2023, 12–12:45 p.m.

Are you interested in careers that use data to make informed decisions in the Food, Agriculture, Natural Resources or Human sciences? Do you want to know how professionals landed their career or what they wished they did during college?

Join us Tuesday October 24th at noon for Project DA-FANH's monthly "Ask me Anything" speaker series. This time with Dr. Sara Bleich, the Director of Nutrition Security and Health Equity in the Food and Nutrition Service at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).

After serving as the Senior Advisor for COVID-19 in the Office of the Secretary at USDA (2021). She is a policy expert and researcher who specializes in diet-related diseases, food insecurity and racial inequality with more than 175 peer-reviewed publications. She is on leave from her post as a Professor of Public Health Policy at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, the Kennedy School of Government, and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Dr. Bleich was also a White House Fellow during the Obama administration, where she worked at USDA as a Senior Policy Adviser for Food, Nutrition and Consumer Services and with the First Lady Michelle Obama's Let's Move! Initiative. She holds degrees from Columbia (BA, Psychology) and Harvard (PhD, Health Policy).

See Dr. Bleich's bio at https://www.dataanalytics4fanh.science/careers
Register at: https://forms.gle/vwtjYMeyFQN7VxXH8

This talk is being offered by Project DA-FANH, a grant funded by the USDA National Institute of Food And Agriculture Project DA-FANH works to enrich education at the intersection of Data Analytics and FANH through professional experiential learning and curriculum development. Learn more at https://www.dataanalytics4fanh.science

Contact us at fanh.analytics@gmail.com, or Robin Donatello directly at rdonatello@csuchico.edu