Jan 9, 2015

Jennifer Otten, PhD, RDAssistant Professor

• Policy (Food and Nutrition or will impact food and nutrition)

• Policy Communication, Process, and Implementation (aka getting research to the policy table)

• Food Systems

California’s toy ordinance policies: how parents, children, restaurants respond?

Washington State Executive Order 13-06: Healthy Food and Beverage Service Guidelines and Procurement Impacts on food served in cafeterias and vending?

Childcare food procurementSeattle’s minimum wage ordinance

Market basket prices (with Adam) Food, Nutrition, Health: childcare

(I also work with Donna on water, breastfeeding, and farmer’s market grants, which she mentioned earlier.)

FOOD AND NUTRITION POLICY

Getting research to the policy table: how researchers communicate with policymakers

Washington State EO 13-06 Policy passage Implementation

Media analysis of breastfeeding policyMedia analysis of toy ordinance

POLICY COMMUNICATION, PROCESS, IMPLEMENTATION

Food waste landscape: commercial sectorFarm to childcare, food hubs

FOOD SYSTEMS

Strategic Analysis Research and Training Program High quality research and analysis Training program

Clients thus far: PHSKC, Best Starts for Kids levyLikely looking for RAs in Fall 2015

ALSO, KEEP YOUR EYE ON…

Advance planning and noticeAttentive to e-mail and prepared for meetings Publish Be able to put it into context if you want to work on

natural experiments

WHAT DO YOU NEED TO KNOW TO WORK WITH ME?