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Biographical Sketches of
Committee Members
Daniel R. Glickman, J.D. (Chair) is executive director of congressional pro-
grams at The Aspen Institute in Washington, DC. He is also senior fellow at
The Bipartisan Policy Center. He previously served as president of Refugees
International and chairman and chief executive officer of the Motion Pic-
ture Association of America (MPAA). Prior to joining the MPAA in Septem-
ber 2004, Mr. Glickman was director of the Institute of Politics at Harvard
University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government (August 2002-August
2004). He served as the 26th U.S. Secretary of Agriculture from March
1995 until January 2001. During his tenure, improving the nation’s diet
and nutrition and fighting hunger were among the department’s priorities.
Before his appointment as Secretary of Agriculture, Mr. Glickman served
for 18 years in the U.S. House of Representatives, representing Kansas’s
4th Congressional District. During his time in Congress, he was a member
of the House Agriculture Committee, including 6 years as chairman of the
subcommittee with jurisdiction over federal farm policy issues; nutrition
policy; the Food Stamp Program; the National School Lunch Program and
other child nutrition programs; and the Special Supplemental Nutrition Pro-
gram for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC). He also served as chairman
of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. Mr. Glickman
is co-chair of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs’ Global Agricultural
Development Initiative and vice chairman of World Food Program USA
(formerly the Friends of the World Food Program). His service includes
membership on the board of directors of the American Film Institute, CME
Group, Communities in Schools, the Food Research and Action Center, the
National 4-H Council, the William Davidson Institute at the University of
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Michigan, and the Center for U.S. Global Engagement. He is a member of
the Council on Foreign Relations and the Council on American Politics at
the Graduate School of Political Management at The George Washington
University, and a senior fellow of the Center on Communication, Leader-
ship, and Policy at the USC Annenberg School for Communication and
Journalism. In addition, Mr. Glickman is a co-chair of AGree, a multi-
foundation effort to review long term food and agricultural policy. Mr.
Glickman received his B.A. in history from the University of Michigan and
his J.D. from The George Washington University. He is a member of the
Kansas and District of Columbia Bars.
M. R. C. Greenwood, Ph.D. (Vice Chair) is president of the University of
Hawaii System, a position she assumed in 2009. Previously, Dr. Greenwood
was professor of nutrition and internal medicine, chair of the Graduate
Group in Nutritional Biology, and director of the Foods for Health Initia-
tive at the University of California, Davis. She served as chancellor of the
University of California, Santa Cruz, from 1996 to 2004 and as University
of California provost and senior vice president for academic affairs. Prior to
her Santa Cruz appointments, Dr. Greenwood was dean of graduate studies,
vice provost of academic outreach, and professor of biology and internal
medicine at the University of California, Davis. Previously, she was chair
of the Department of Biology at Vassar College. From 1993 to 1995, Dr.
Greenwood served as associate director for science at the Office of Science
and Technology Policy in the Executive Office of the President of the United
States. She is the author of numerous scientific publications in the areas of
nutrition, obesity, and diabetes. Dr. Greenwood is past president and fel-
low of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, fellow
of the American Academies of Arts and Sciences, and past president of the
North American Association for the Study of Obesity. She is past chair of
the IOM’s Food and Nutrition Board, the NRC Policy and Global Affairs
Committee, and the IOM Committee on Dietary Supplement Use by Mili-
tary Personnel, and is a former member of the National Science Board. Dr.
Greenwood received her A.B., summa cum laude, from Vassar College and
her Ph.D. from The Rockefeller University. She is a member of the IOM.
William Purcell, III, J.D. (Vice Chair) is an attorney in Nashville, Tennes-
see, who most recently served as special advisor on Allston and co-chair
of the Work Team for Allston in the Office of the President at Harvard
University. From 2008 until 2010, he served as director of the Institute
of Politics at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. Previously,
Mr. Purcell was mayor of Nashville, Tennessee, from 1999 to 2007. Mr.
Purcell’s accomplishments as a civic leader earned him Public Official of the
Year honors in 2006 from Governing Magazine. In 1986 he was elected
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to the Tennessee House of Representatives, where he served for five terms,
serving in the positions of majority leader and chair of the Select Commit-
tee on Children and Youth. After retiring from the General Assembly, he
founded and became director of the Child and Family Policy Center at the
Vanderbilt Institute of Public Policy Studies. Mr. Purcell was a member of
the IOM Committee on an Evidence Framework for Obesity Prevention
Decision Making. He graduated from Hamilton College and Vanderbilt
University School of Law.
David V. B. Britt, M.P.A., is retired president and chief executive officer
of Sesame Workshop. Mr. Britt’s professional experience includes execu-
tive positions with the U.S. Agency for International Development, the
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and the Overseas Private
Investment Corporation. Since his retirement, Mr. Britt has been engaged
in consulting and leadership development for nonprofit organizations. He
is currently chair of the board of directors of The Education Trust. Mr.
Britt has been a member of the Advisory Board on Social Enterprise at the
Harvard Business School, and is a member of the Council on Foreign Rela-
tions and the Board of INMED Partnerships for Children. He is a former
member of the Institute of Medicine (IOM)/National Research Council
(NRC) Board on Children, Youth, and Families. He previously served as a
member of the IOM Committee on Obesity Prevention Policies for Young
Children and the IOM Committee on Food Marketing and the Diets of
Children and Youth. He received a B.A. from Wesleyan University and
an M.P.A. from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard
University.
Jamie F. Chriqui, Ph.D., M.H.S., is senior research scientist and director
of policy surveillance and evaluation in the Health Policy Center within
the Institute for Health Research and Policy at the University of Illinois at
Chicago (UIC) and research associate professor in political science at UIC.
She has more than 21 years’ experience conducting public health policy
research, evaluation, and analysis, with an emphasis on obesity, substance
abuse, tobacco control, and other chronic disease-related policy issues.
Dr. Chriqui has led a number of efforts to develop quantitative measures
of the extensiveness of state- and local-level public health policies. Her
research interests focus on examining the impact of law and policy on
community and school environments as well as individual behaviors and
attitudes. Her current research focuses on sugar-sweetened beverage taxa-
tion, school district wellness policies, and community policies related to
the physical activity and food environments. She directs all state, local
and school district policy research activities for the Robert Wood Johnson
Foundation-supported Bridging the Gap program and is principal investiga-
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tor or co-investigator on several NIH-funded research grants. She serves on
numerous obesity-related advisory and expert panels and is widely called
upon for her expertise in obesity policy-related issues. Before joining UIC,
Dr. Chriqui served as technical vice president of the Center for Health
Policy and Legislative Analysis at The MayaTech Corporation and prior to
that as a policy analyst at the National Institute on Drug Abuse. She holds
a B.A. in political science from Barnard College at Columbia University;
an M.H.S. in health policy from the Johns Hopkins University School of
Hygiene and Public Health; and a Ph.D. in policy sciences (health policy
concentration) from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.
Patricia Crawford, Dr.P.H., R.D., is director of the Dr. Robert C. and
Veronica Atkins Center for Weight and Health, Cooperative Extension
nutrition specialist in the Department of Nutritional Science and Toxicol-
ogy, and adjunct professor in the School of Public Health at the University
of California, Berkeley. Dr. Crawford directed the longitudinal National
Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Growth and Health Study, a study of the
development of cardiovascular risk factors in African American and white
girls, as well as the Five-State FitWIC Initiative to Prevent Childhood Obe-
sity. She has developed numerous obesity prevention materials, including
the Fit Families novella series for Latino families and Let’s Get Moving, an
activity program for those who work with young children. She has served
on a number of advisory committees including the California Legislative
Task Force on Diabetes and Obesity. Dr. Crawford’s current studies include
evaluations of large community-based obesity initiatives and school-based
policy interventions. She is a member of the IOM Standing Committee on
Childhood Obesity Prevention and has served as a member or chair of three
IOM obesity-related planning committees. She earned a B.S. from the Uni-
versity of Washington and a doctorate in public health and an R.D. from
the University of California, Berkeley.
Christina Economos, Ph.D., is associate professor of nutrition and New
Balance Chair in Childhood Nutrition at the Friedman School of Nutrition
Science and Policy at Tufts University. She also serves as director of Chil-
dObesity180. Her research focuses on the interactions among exercise, diet,
and body composition. Her translational research includes theory-based
obesity prevention interventions with ethnically and socioeconomically
diverse children, adolescents, and their families in urban and rural com-
munities across the United States. Dr. Economos was principal investigator
for the Shape Up Somerville (SUS) project and currently leads several large
obesity prevention intervention trials. The SUS project targeted behavior
change in children through community-based, environmental change in
a low-income, racially/ethnically diverse population. Dr. Economos has
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held positions in public health nutrition, including at the Massachusetts
Department of Public Health. She serves on numerous state and national
advisory boards. She was a consultant on the Youth Subcommittee for the
2008 Physical Activity Guidelines and is a member of the Public Policy
Committee of the American Society for Nutrition. Dr. Economos served as
a member of the IOM Committee on an Evidence Framework for Obesity
Prevention Decision Making. She earned her M.S. at Columbia University
and her Ph.D. at the Friedman School for Nutrition Science and Policy at
Tufts University.
Sandra G. Hassink, M.D., began the Pediatric Weight Management Clinic
at A.I. duPont Hospital for Children in Wilmington, Delaware, in 1988.
The clinic is part of the Division of General Pediatrics; it uses a multidis-
ciplinary, family-based approach to obesity and cares for children from
infancy to young adulthood. Dr. Hassink is now director of the Nemours
Obesity Initiative. She works both in the clinical division treating obese
pediatric patients and in Nemours Health and Prevention Services, and has
served as clinical consultant for the Primary Care Quality Collaborative on
childhood obesity and in helping to develop obesity-related policy at the
community and state levels. Dr. Hassink has collaborated in basic research
efforts to identify pathophysiologic mechanisms of obesity, centering on
the role of leptin, and has lectured widely in the field of pediatric obesity.
In addition to her other responsibilities, she currently chairs the ethics
committee at A.I. duPont Hospital for Children. Dr. Hassink serves on
the board of directors of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), has
been a member of the AAP Task Force on Obesity, and is currently chair
of the AAP Obesity Leadership Workgroup. She is the author of A Parent’s
Guide to Childhood Obesity; Pediatric Obesity: Prevention, Intervention,
and Treatment Strategies for Primary Care; and Clinical Guide to Pediatric
Weight Management. Dr. Hassink received her medical degree from Vander-
bilt Medical School and a master’s degree in pastoral care and counseling
from Neumann College.
Anthony B. Iton, M.D., J.D., is senior vice president for healthy communi-
ties at The California Endowment in Oakland. In this role, he directs the
foundation’s 10-year Building Healthy Communities: California Living 2.0
initiative, an effort to create communities where children are healthy, safe,
and ready to learn. Prior to assuming this role, Dr. Iton served as both
health officer and director of the Public Health Department for Alameda
County (Oakland, California), beginning in 2003. There he oversaw the
creation of an innovative public health practice designed to eliminate health
disparities by tackling the root causes of poor health commonly found in
California’s low-income communities. Dr. Iton also served for 3 years as
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director of health and human services and school medical advisor for the
City of Stamford, Connecticut. Concurrently he served as a physician in
internal medicine for Stamford Hospital’s HIV clinic. He also has served
as a primary care physician for the San Francisco Department of Public
Health. Dr. Iton’s work has been published in numerous public health and
medical journals, and he is a regular public health lecturer and keynote
speaker. He earned his B.S. in neurophysiology from McGill University, his
M.D. from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and his J.D.
from the University of California, Berkeley.
Steven H. Kelder, Ph.D., M.P.H., is Beth Toby Grossman Distinguished
Professor in Spirituality and Healing and co-director of the Michael &
Susan Dell Center for Healthy Living at the University of Texas School
of Public Health in Austin. Dr. Kelder has directed National Institutes of
Health (NIH)- and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)-
funded research projects focused on developing and evaluating school-
based programs that address risk behaviors among children and adolescents
in order to reduce chronic disease, and include promotion of healthy eat-
ing and physical activity and prevention of tobacco use and osteoporosis.
He has been a principal investigator directing efforts to disseminate the
CATCH program, which has been adopted by elementary schools nation-
wide, including more than 2,500 elementary schools in Texas, potentially
reaching more than 1,000,000 Texas children. Dr. Kelder has authored or
co-authored numerous scientific papers and book chapters over the past
15 years addressing the design and analysis of epidemiological studies and
health promotion interventions. He teaches graduate courses in epidemiol-
ogy, social and behavioral aspects of behavior change, community nutrition
education, epidemiology of child and adolescent health, and obesity and
public health. Dr. Kelder received his Ph.D. in behavioral epidemiology and
M.P.H. in community health education from the University of Minnesota,
and a B.S. in marketing and economics from Northern Illinois University.
Harold W. (Bill) Kohl, III, Ph.D., M.S.P.H., is professor of epidemiology
and kinesiology at the University of Texas Health Science Center Houston,
and in the Department of Kinesiology and Health Education at the Uni-
versity of Texas, Austin, College of Education. Dr. Kohl is also faculty at
the Michael & Susan Dell Center for Healthy Living in Austin. He is the
founder and director of the University of Texas Physical Activity Epide-
miology Program, where he is responsible for student training, research,
and community service related to physical activity and public health. His
previous service includes directing physical activity epidemiology and sur-
veillance projects in the Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obe-
sity at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Dr. Kohl’s research
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focuses on epidemiology related to physical inactivity and obesity in both
adults and children. Dr. Kohl also studies the effect of the built environment
on physical activity and is currently researching a planned development
that implements “smart growth” techniques that support physically active
lifestyles. He received an M.S.P.H. from the University of South Carolina
School of Public Health in epidemiology and biostatistics and a Ph.D. from
the University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston School of Public
Health, in community health studies.
Shiriki K. Kumanyika, Ph.D., M.S.W., M.P.H., R.D., is professor of epide-
miology in the Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology and Pediatrics
(Gastroenterology, Nutrition Section) and associate dean for health pro-
motion and disease prevention at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman
School of Medicine. Dr. Kumanyika’s interdisciplinary background inte-
grates epidemiology, nutrition, prevention, minority health, and women’s
health issues across the life course. The main themes of her research have
concerned the role of nutritional factors in the primary and secondary
prevention of chronic diseases, with a particular focus on obesity, sodium
reduction, and related health problems such as hypertension and diabetes.
She has a particular interest in the epidemiology and prevention of obe-
sity among African Americans. Dr. Kumanyika has served on numerous
national and international advisory committees and expert panels related
to nutrition and obesity. She is co-chair of the International Obesity Task
Force, the policy and advocacy arm of the International Association for
the Study of Obesity, and serves as a consultant to the World Health
Organization’s Department of Nutrition for Health and Development. Dr.
Kumanyika served as a member of the IOM Food and Nutrition Board,
chair of the IOM Committee on an Evidence Framework for Obesity
Prevention Decision Making, and a member of the IOM Committee on
Prevention of Obesity in Children and Youth. She is currently chair of the
IOM Standing Committee on Childhood Obesity Prevention. She received
a B.A. from Syracuse University, an M.S.W. from Columbia University, a
Ph.D. in human nutrition from Cornell University, and an M.P.H. from the
Johns Hopkins University. She is a member of the IOM.
Philip A. Marineau, M.B.A., is operating partner with LNK Partners, a pri-
vate equity firm in White Plains, New York. Mr. Marineau also is currently
chairman of the Board of Shutterfly, an online photo sharing and greeting
card company, and holds numerous other board positions, including posi-
tions with Kaiser Permanente, the Meredith Corporation, and Georgetown
University. At LNK Partners, Mr. Marineau’s experience guides the firm’s
investments, which are exclusively in the consumer and retail sector. He
has had a 33-year career working in the major name brand consumer retail
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business. Mr. Marineau was president of Quaker Oats, where he worked
for 23 years. Thereafter, he served as president of Dean Foods, a dairy
company, from 1996 to 1997. He then served as president of Pepsi-Cola
North America, from 1997 to 1999, and then as president and chief execu-
tive officer of Levi Strauss, the global apparel company, from 1999 to 2006.
Mr. Marineau received his M.B.A. from Northwestern University and his
B.A. in history from Georgetown University.
Victoria Rideout, M.A., is president and founder of VJR Consulting, a
private consulting firm specializing in media research and social marketing
strategy. Until 2010 she served as vice president of the Kaiser Family Foun-
dation and director of the foundation’s Program for the Study of Media and
Health. Ms. Rideout directed more than 30 studies on topics concerning
media and health, including a 10-year study tracking the evolving nature of
media use among children and youth, research quantifying the amount and
nature of food advertising to children on television and the Internet, surveys
on teenagers’ use of the Internet for health information, content analyses
of public service advertising on television, and several studies documenting
the positive influence of health-related content in entertainment televi-
sion. Her research has been published in peer-reviewed journals such as
the Journal of the American Medical Association, Pediatrics, the Journal
of Public Policy and Marketing, Health Affairs, and American Behavioral
Scientist, and has been widely reported in the news media. Ms. Rideout has
also negotiated partnerships with the television networks MTV, BET, and
UPN, securing high-profile, multi-million-dollar donations of media time to
conduct youth-oriented public education campaigns. The public service ads,
original long-form programming, and online content she helped develop
through these partnerships received many awards, including a National
Emmy Award for best public service campaign. Ms. Rideout received a B.A.
from Harvard University and an M.A. from the Maxwell School of Public
Affairs at Syracuse University.
Eduardo J. Sanchez, M.D., M.P.H., FAAFP, is vice president and chief
medical officer for Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Texas (BCBSTX). He
previously served as director of the Institute for Health Policy at the Austin
Regional Campus of the School of Public Health in the University of Texas
Health Science Center at Houston; prior to that, he served as commis-
sioner of the Texas Department of State Health Services. As commissioner
and chief health officer for the State of Texas, Dr. Sanchez led a statewide,
comprehensive obesity prevention initiative and oversaw the creation of the
2006 Texas Obesity Policy Portfolio and the release of a Texas obesity cost
projection comparing 2000 with 2040. He also oversaw Texas’s behavioral
health programs, disease prevention and bioterrorism preparedness pro-
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grams, family and community health services programs, and environmental
and consumer safety and health-related regulatory programs. He practiced
clinical medicine in Austin from 1992 to 2001 and served as health author-
ity and chief medical officer for the Austin-Travis County Health and
Human Services Department from 1994 to 1998. He served as chair of
the IOM Committee on Childhood Obesity Prevention Actions for Local
Governments, and as a member of the IOM Committee on Progress in Pre-
venting Childhood Obesity and the IOM Committee on a Comprehensive
Review of the DHHS Office of Family Planning Title X Program. He is a
current member of the IOM Standing Committee on Childhood Obesity
Prevention. Dr. Sanchez received his M.D. from the University of Texas
Southwestern Medical School in Dallas, an M.P.H. from the University of
Texas Health Science Center at Houston School of Public Health, and an
M.S. in biomedical engineering from Duke University. He holds a B.S. in
biomedical engineering and a B.A. in chemistry from Boston University. Dr.
Sanchez is a fellow of the American Academy of Family Physicians and is
certified by the American Board of Family Medicine.
Ellen Wartella, Ph.D., is Al-Thani professor of communication and profes-
sor of psychology and human development and social policy at Northwest-
ern University. She directs the Center on Media and Human Development
in the School of Communication at Northwestern. Previously, she was
distinguished professor of psychology at the University of California, River-
side (UCR), where she also served as executive vice chancellor and provost.
Dr. Wartella is a co-principal investigator on a 5-year, multisite research
project entitled IRADS Collaborative Research: Influence of Digital Media
on Very Young Children, funded by the National Science Foundation. She
was a co-principal investigator for the National TV Violence Study and a
co-principal investigator for the Children’s Digital Media Center project,
funded by the National Science Foundation. She serves on the National
Educational Advisory Board of the Children’s Advertising Review Unit of
the Council of Better Business Bureaus, the board of directors for the World
Summit on Media for Children Foundation, the PBS KIDS Next Generation
Media Advisory Board, the board of trustees for Sesame Workshop, and
advisory boards for Harvard’s Center on Media and Child Health and The
Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity at Yale University. Dr. Wartella
is a member of the American Psychological Association and the Society for
Research in Child Development and is past president of the International
Communication Association. Recent honors include election as a fellow of
the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Steven H.
Chaffee Career Productivity Award from the International Communication
Association. Dr. Wartella has served on the NRC/IOM Board on Children,
Youth, and Families and the IOM Committee on Food Marketing and the
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Diets of Children and Youth. She served as chair of the IOM Committee on
Examination of Front-of-Package Nutrition Rating Systems and Symbols.
Dr. Wartella received a B.A. with honors in economics from the University
of Pittsburgh and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in mass communications from
the University of Minnesota, and completed her postdoctoral research in
developmental psychology at the University of Kansas.
