Feb. 25 Harvard Symposium on Dietary Guidelines Open to Boston University Medical Campus Community
Faculty, students, and staff of the Schools of Public Health and Medicine are invited to join a webcast on Wednesday, Feb. 25, from 3:30-6 p.m. on the newly released recommendations of the 2015 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee.
Committee members will discuss the new set of recommendations, which reflect the latest in food and nutrition research and will help the US Departments of Health and Human Services (HHS) and Agriculture (USDA) to update the nation’s dietary guidelines. Among the committee’s more controversial recommendations is a call to lift the longstanding cap on dietary cholesterol, which the panel said has no appreciable relationship to blood cholesterol levels.
The outside experts who make up the 2015 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee are nationally recognized in the fields of nutrition, medicine, and public health. The panel is led by Barbara Millen, a retired faculty member who was a professor of family medicine at the School of Medicine and associate dean for research and faculty development at SPH.
Wednesday’s symposium is hosted by the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and will be moderated by Howard Koh, an alumnus of BU’s School of Public Health who is professor of the practice of public health leadership at Harvard and former assistant secretary for health for the US Department of Health and Human Services. The public is invited to attend the event in Snyder Auditorium (G-1), 667 Huntington Ave., Boston. The webcast will be also be broadcast live. Sign in to register in advance.
Questions may be submitted to presenters at https://harvard.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe1/form/SV_7WL0pzPIwAnLIl7.