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Organized by the ASN Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Accessibility (IDEA) Committee

ASN 3-Part Webinar Series: Exploring Evidence Gaps Highlighted by the 2025 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee’s Review of the Science

ASN’s 3-part webinar series provides support navigating the Scientific Report of the 2025 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee (DGAC) and takes a deeper dive into topics where the DGAC found the evidence to be lacking.
 
Topics and areas to be covered include future needs for adolescent nutrition research, how food pattern modeling and diet simulations can be used to analyze diet quality and support research, understanding implementation science and behavioral nutrition factors that influence dietary intake and health, and accommodating for cultural responsiveness in behavioral nutrition strategies.

These webinars will showcase the current state of the evidence on each of these topics, based on the recent 2025 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee review of the evidence. In addition to the webinar titled The Use of Food Pattern Modeling and Diet Simulations to Improve Healthy Equity of the Dietary Guidelines for Americans, the other webinars in the series include:

• Nutrition and Health of Adolescents: June 30, 2025, from 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM ET
• Implementation and Behavioral Science: Helping Americans Consume a Healthy Diet: July 22, 2025, from 1:00 – 2:00 PM ET

Speakers

Achieving Health Equity in the Dietary Guidelines for Americans
Sameera Talegawkar, PhD
Professor, Milken School of Public Health, George Washington University and member of the 2025 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committe

The Role of Food Pattern Modeling and Diet Simulations in the Scientific Report of the 2025 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee
Christopher Taylor, PhD, RDN, LD, FAND
Professor and Director of Medical Dietetics in the School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, The Ohio State University, and member of the 2025 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee

Addressing Health Disparities and Equal Access Beyond the Dietary Guidelines for Americans – Panel Discussion 
Angela Odoms-Young, PhD
The Nancy Schlegel Meinig Associate Professor of Maternal and Child Nutrition, Director of the Food and Nutrition Education in Communities Program (FNEC) and New York State Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP), Cornell University and Vice Chair of the 2025 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee

Tara Maudrie, PhD, MSPH
Assistant Professor, University of Michigan School of Social Work 

Joachim Dzidzor Sackey, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Clinical and Preventive Nutrition Sciences, School of Health Professions, Rutgers University, Rutgers Health Food Pantry, and ASN Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Accessibility (IDEA) Committee Member

Moderator

Sophia Amenyah, PhD
Assistant Professor in Nutrition & Vice Chancellors Fellow, Faculty of Life and Health Sciences, Northumbria University, United Kingdom; ASN Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Accessibility (IDEA) Committee Member

Learning Objectives

1. Understand what food pattern modeling and diet simulations are
2. Understand how food pattern modeling and diet simulations were used to analyze diet quality and support the work of the 2025 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee
3. Understand how food pattern modeling and diet simulations can be used to positively impact health equity