The International Food Information Council Foundation in Washington DC has selected Christa Drew for its 2010 Sylvia Rowe Fellowship. Christa is a student at the Center for Public Policy and Administration pursuing an MPPA with emphasis on food science policy.
During the fellowship, Drew will work on projects and policies regarding food safety and risk communication. She plans to incorporate food science research into consumer education about nutrition and health. According to Drew, “The Sylvia Rowe Fellowship nicely compliments my previous years of work experience on hunger, nutrition and obesity and my food science policy studies at UMass. In addition, my time with IFIC will augment an internship, also this summer, with the International Life Science Institute where I’ll work on research funding/food science conflict of interest policies.”
The Sylvia Rowe Fellowship Award was established in 2007 as a tribute to former International Food Information Council Foundation President and CEO, Sylvia B. Rowe, to help promising nutrition and food safety communicators enhance their capabilities. The goal of this award is to develop the recipent’s communications skills so that they can communicate nutrition and food safety information to the public in an academic setting, professional situation (either for-profit or nonprofit sector), or other public venues.
For more information about the International Food Information Council, visit their website. For details on the food science specialization at CPPA, click here.