FARM Food Futures Forum

9 a.m. CT

Welcome and introductions

Presenters:

• • Sandro Galea, MD, DrPH, Margaret C. Ryan Dean of the School of Public Health, Eugene S. and Constance Kahn Distinguished Professor in Public Health, Vice Provost for Interdisciplinary Initiatives, Washington University in St Louis

• • Lora Iannotti, PhD, Lauren and Lee Fixel Distinguished Professor; co-director of the Food & Agriculture Research Mission (FARM) Innovation Research Network; and founding director of the E3 Nutrition Lab at WashU School of Public Health; director for planetary health, WashU Center for the Environment

9:20 a.m. CT

What is Required to Achieve Sustainable Food Systems Transformation?

Presenter:

• • Agnes Kalibata, PhD, Founder and chair, Connect for Impact Advisory Group (C4Impact), Kigali, Rwanda; past president, Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA); special envoy of the U.N. secretary-general for the 2021 Food Systems Summit

Moderator:

• • Morven McLean, PhD, Executive director of networks and innovation and professor of practice, director of the Food & Agriculture Research Mission (FARM) Innovation Research Network, of the School of Public Health at Washington University in St. Louis (WashU)

PANELISTS:

• • David Spielman, MSc, PhD, Director of the Innovation Policy and Scaling Unit of the International Food Policy Research Institute, Washington, D.C.

• • Debra Haire-Joshu, PhD, Joyce and Chauncy Buchheit Professor in Public Health, associate dean of faculty affairs, WashU School of Public Health

• • Sarah Moreland-Russell, PhD, Associate professor, WashU School of Public Health

10:10 a.m. CT

Transforming the Global Food System: Issues and Trends, Challenges and Opportunities

Presenter:

• • Jason Clay, PhD, Senior vice president, markets and food; executive director, Markets Institute, World Wildlife Fund (WWF)

Moderator:

• • Sydney Scott, PhD, Associate professor of marketing, Olin Business School, WashU

PANELISTS:

• • Robbie Hart, PhD, Director, William L. Brown Center, and Stephen and Peter Sachs Museum, William L. Brown Curator of Economic Botany, Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis

• • Stephanie Mazzucca-Ragan, PhD, Assistant professor, WashU School of Public Health

• • Kristen Wild, BA, President & CEO, Operation Food Search, St. Louis

11 a.m. CT

Break

11:30 a.m. CT

An Imperative for Human and Planetary Health: Research to End Hunger and Improve Nutrition

PResenter:

• • Robert Bertram, PhD, Chief scientist, Food Security Leadership Council, Washington, D.C.; former chief scientist for U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Bureau for Resilience and Food Security

Moderator:

• • Jeffrey Gordon, MD, Dr. Robert J. Glaser Distinguished University Professor, and director of the Edison Family Center for Genome Sciences & Systems Biology, WashU Medicine

Panelists:

• • Lora Iannotti, PhD, Lauren and Lee Fixel Distinguished Professor; co-director of the Food & Agriculture Research Mission (FARM) Innovation Research Network; and founding director of the E3 Nutrition Lab at WashU School of Public Health; director for planetary health, WashU Center for the Environment

• • Patrick Aguilar, MD, MBA, Professor of Practice of Organizational Behavior and Managing Director of Health, Olin Business School, WashU

• • Donald MacKenzie, PhD, Executive director, Institute for International Crop Improvement, Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, St. Louis

12:20 p.m. CT

Announcement of FARM Cultivate Grant awardees, and closing remarks