Harvard Food+ Research Symposium

Date: 

Friday, February 27, 2015, 12:30pm to 4:30pm

Location: 

GEOLOGICAL MUSEUM LECTURE HALL 100 @ 24 OXFORD ST

The Weatherhead Center for International Affairs is pleased to announce the first Harvard Research Symposium on the Nexus of Food, Agriculture, Environment, Health, and Society (or as we call it, the Food+ Symposium). The Symposium will feature 20 Harvard faculty members from 8 schools and a dozen departments giving 7 minute "speed presentations" on their current Food+ research.  

The goal of the Food+ Research Symposium is to provide attendees with a sense of the excitement and breadth of the Food+ research underway at Harvard and foster cross-fertilization among researchers.

Presenters include: 

  • Robert Bates, Professor of the Science of Government in the Department of Government in the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
  • David Bell, Professor of Agriculture and Business at the Harvard Business School
  • Joyce Chaplin, Professor of Early American History at the Department of History in the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
  • George Church, Professor of Genetics at the Harvard Medical School and Professor of Health Sciences and Technology at the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology
  • William Clark, Professor of International Science, Public Policy and Human Development at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government
  • Shawn Cole, Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School
  • Ann Forsyth, Professor of Urban Planning at the Harvard Graduate School of Design
  • Susan Greenhalgh, Professor of Chinese Society and Professor of Anthropology in the Social Anthropology Program in the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
  • Jacob Gersen, Professor of Law at the Harvard Law School and Director of the Harvard Food Law Lab
  • Michele Holbrook, Professor of Biology and Forestry in the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology in the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
  • Sheila Jasanoff, Professor of Science and Technology Studies at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government
  • Peter Huybers, Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences in the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Professor of Environmental Science and Engineering at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
  • Michael Kremer, Professor of Developing Societies in the Department of Economics in the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
  • Emily Broad Leib, Lecturer on Law and Clinical Instruction at the Harvard Law School and Director of the Harvard Food Law and Policy Clinic
  • David Ludwig, Professor of Pediatrics at the Harvard Medical School and Professor of Nutrition at the Harvard School of Public Health
  • Samuel Myers, Instructor in Medicine at the Harvard Medical School and Senior Research Scientist at the Department of Environmental Health at the Harvard School of Public Health
  • PK Newby, Instructor at the Harvard Extension School, author of the National Geographic Foods for Health, and author of the blog The Nutrition Doctor is in the Kitchen
  • Robert Paarlberg, Adjunct Professor of Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government
  • Daniel Schrag, Professor of Geology in the Earth and Planetary Sciences Department in the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Professor of Environmental Science and Engineering at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and Director of the Harvard University Center for the Environment
  • Elsie Sunderland, Associate Professor in Environmental Science and Engineering at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
  • J. Gunnar Trumbull, Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School
  • Walter Willett, Professor of Epidemiology and Nutrition at the Harvard School of Public Health
  • Elizabeth Wolkovich, Assistant Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology in the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology in the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences

Ray Goldberg, Emeritus Professor of Agriculture and Business at the Harvard Business School, will give closing remarks.  

The Weatherhead Center would like to thank the Food+ Steering Committee: Professors Aaron Bernstein, Bill Clark, Missy Holbrook, Peter Huybers, Emily Broad Leib, Robert Paarlberg, Forest Reinhardt, Daniel Schrag, and Walter Willett.