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Appendix C: Biographical Sketches of Speakers
Appendix C: Biographical Sketches of Speakers
Pages 133-142
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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 investigator 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.
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Currently he is a member of the National Advisory Council of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Active Living Research, director of the World Health Organization Collaborating Center in Urban and Health Sustainability, and a fellow of the American College of Sports Medicine.
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Her current research is investigating the influence of commercial and social marketing activities on health promotion, disease prevention, and the elimination of health disparities. Focal topics include obesity prevention, digital marketing to children and adolescents, and the relationship of targeted marketing to pub
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Grier was a member of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health & Society Scholars program at the University of Pennsylvania. She also spent 2 years as an in-house consultant at the Federal Trade Commission, where she provided consumer research expertise as part of a presidentially mandated team examining the targeted marketing of violent movies, music, and video games to American youth.
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Her own surveillance research, using data from the National Nutrition Monitoring and Related Research Program, has emphasized trends in intake of foods and nutrients, especially fruits and vegetables; food sources of nutrients; and factors associated with the intake of foods and/or nutrients. Her contributions in the area of dietary assessment methodology have focused on the development of methods for assessing dietary patterns, the usual intake of foods, overall diet quality, and conformance to dietary guidelines.
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Her research interests focus on public policies intended to reduce obesity incidence and prevalence and include the effects of food and physical activity environments on individual diet and physical activity behavior, measurement of the food and physical activity environments, the economic effects of rising obesity rates at the population level, and evaluation of public policies that may affect diet and/ or activity behavior.
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food supply is an area on which she is currently focusing as part of a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation-funded evaluation of the food industry's commitment to cutting calories from the U.S. market.
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Rockeymoore contributed to the development of its seminal study panel report, Strengthening Medicare's Role in Reducing Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities, in 2006. She formerly served as vice president for research and programs at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, senior resident scholar for health and income security at the National Urban League's policy institute, chief of staff to Congressman Charles Rangel, professional staff on the U.S.
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She serves as co-principal investigator for several Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Healthy Eating Research awards, including the California School Nutrition Standards Study, the Child Nutrition Commodity Foods Project, the California Child Care Food Assessment, and the Evaluation of a Full Service Grocery Store in a Low Income Community.
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His current research analyzes the costs and benefits of economic and regulatory approaches to preventing obesity, increasing physical activity, and improving the diet of Americans. In the past 12 months, several hundred news reports have covered his research publications on soda taxes, the Los Angeles fast-food ban, and the social costs of excess sodium in the U.S.
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