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Suggested Citation:"Appendix A: Workshop Agenda." Institute of Medicine. 2013. Creating Equal Opportunities for a Healthy Weight: Workshop Summary. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/18553.
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Workshop Agenda

CREATING EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES FOR A HEALTHY WEIGHT: A WORKSHOP

A public session hosted by the Institute of Medicine Standing Committee on Childhood Obesity Prevention June 6-7, 2013 National Academy of Sciences (NAS) Building, NAS Auditorium 2101 Constitution Avenue, NW, Washington DC

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Description: The workshop will examine obesity prevention through the lens of working to achieve health equity, focusing on health equity issues and solutions related to the key obesity prevention recommendations and strategies outlined in the 2012 Institute of Medicine (IOM) report Accelerating Progress in Obesity Prevention: Solving the Weight of the Nation. The report’s recommendations encompass physical activity; healthy food access; marketing and messaging about food and physical activity; the roles of employers, health care professionals, and schools; and the importance of approaching implementation of these recommend-dations from a systems perspective. Through presentations and focused discussions, workshop speakers and attendees will explore the health equity issues inherent in each of these critical aspects of obesity prevention, while discussing potential future research, policy, and action in each area that could lead to equity in opportunities to achieve a healthy weight.

Suggested Citation:"Appendix A: Workshop Agenda." Institute of Medicine. 2013. Creating Equal Opportunities for a Healthy Weight: Workshop Summary. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/18553.
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Welcome and Opening Remarks

8:30 am Opening Remarks: Health Equity and Obesity Prevention
*Shiriki Kumanyika, University of Pennsylvania

Panel 1: Building Physical and Social Environments for Physical Activity in High-Risk Communities: What Will It Take?

9:00 Moderator: *James Sallis, University of California, San Diego
Case Study
Robert García, The City Project, Los Angeles
Policy Issues
Myron Floyd, North Carolina State University
9:45 Moderated Intra-Panel Discussion
10:05 BREAK

Panel 2: Making Healthy Foods and Beverages Available: Combating Disparities in the Food and Beverage Environments of Ethnic Minority and Low-Income Communities

10:25 Moderator: *Mary Story, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
Case Study
Don Schwarz, City of Philadelphia
Policy Issues
Tracy Fox, Food Nutrition & Policy Consultants, LLC
11:10 Moderated Intra-Panel Discussion

Town Hall: Panel 1 and 2

11:30 Moderator: *William Purcell, III, Jones Hawkins & Farmer, PLC
Q&A/Discussion with Audience
12:00 pm Public Statements
Suggested Citation:"Appendix A: Workshop Agenda." Institute of Medicine. 2013. Creating Equal Opportunities for a Healthy Weight: Workshop Summary. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/18553.
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12:15 Panel Discussion and Wrap-Up
12:30 LUNCH (on your own)

Panel 3: Equity-Focused Approaches to Obesity Prevention in Workplaces: What? Where? How?

1:30 Moderator: *Patricia Crawford, University of California, Berkeley
Case Study
Ray Baxter, Kaiser Permanente
Case Study
Sharen Anthony, WIC Fit, California
2:15 Moderated Intra-Panel Discussion
2:35 Instant Recess Activity Break

Panel 4: Pathways to Obesity Prevention for Ethnic Minority and Low-Income Children and Adults in Primary Care

2:55 Moderator: *William Dietz, Retired, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Case Study
Deborah Burnet, University of Chicago
Case Study
Ryan Buchholz, Upper Cardozo Health Center and Unity Health Care, Washington, DC
3:40 Moderated Intra-Panel Discussion

Town Hall: Panel 3 and 4

4:00 Moderator: *Eduardo Sanchez, American Heart Association
Q&A/Discussion with Audience
4:30 Public Statements
4:45 Panel Discussion and Wrap-Up
5:00 ADJOURN Day One
Suggested Citation:"Appendix A: Workshop Agenda." Institute of Medicine. 2013. Creating Equal Opportunities for a Healthy Weight: Workshop Summary. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/18553.
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Welcome Day 2

8:30 am Welcome
*Shiriki Kumanyika, University of Pennsylvania

Panel 5: Advertising, Promotion, and Education: Bringing Health Equity to the Message Environment

8:40 Moderator: *Ellen Wartella, Northwestern University
Case Study
Anthony Signorelli, Ad Council
Policy Issues
Lori Dorfman, Berkeley Media Studies Group
9:25 Moderated Intra-Panel Discussion
9:45 BREAK

Panel 6: Upgrading Food and Physical Activity Options Before, During, and After School in Low-Income Neighborhoods

10:00 Moderator: *Joseph Thompson, University of Arkansas
Case Study
Rodney Taylor, Riverside Unified School District
Policy Issues
Arnell Hinkle, CANFIT, California
10:45 Moderated Intra-Panel Discussion

Town Hall: Panel 5 and 6

11:05 Moderator: *Celeste Clark, Retired, Kellogg Company
Q&A/Discussion with Audience
11:35 Public Statements
11:50 Panel Discussion and Wrap-Up
Suggested Citation:"Appendix A: Workshop Agenda." Institute of Medicine. 2013. Creating Equal Opportunities for a Healthy Weight: Workshop Summary. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/18553.
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Closing Remarks

12:05 pm Workshop Summary and Highlights
*Shiriki Kumanyika, University of Pennsylvania
12:20 Closing Speaker: Bringing the Pieces Together for Accelerated Progress Toward Health Equity
Ross Hammond, Brookings Institution, Washington DC
12:45 ADJOURN Day Two
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Creating Equal Opportunities for a Healthy Weight is the summary of a workshop convened by the Institute of Medicine's Standing Committee on Childhood Obesity Prevention in June 2013 to examine income, race, and ethnicity, and how these factors intersect with childhood obesity and its prevention. Registered participants, along with viewers of a simultaneous webcast of the workshop, heard a series of presentations by researchers, policy makers, advocates, and other stakeholders focused on health disparities associated with income, race, ethnicity, and other characteristics and on how these factors intersect with obesity and its prevention. The workshop featured invited presentations and discussions concerning physical activity, healthy food access, food marketing and messaging, and the roles of employers, health care professionals, and schools.

The IOM 2012 report Accelerating Progress in Obesity Prevention acknowledged that a variety of characteristics linked historically to social exclusion or discrimination, including race, ethnicity, religion, socioeconomic status, gender, age, mental health, disability, sexual orientation or gender identity, geographic location, and immigrant status, can thereby affect opportunities for physical activity, healthy eating, health care, work, and education. In many parts of the United States, certain racial and ethnic groups and low-income individuals and families live, learn, work, and play in places that lack health-promoting resources such as parks, recreational facilities, high-quality grocery stores, and walkable streets. These same neighborhoods may have characteristics such as heavy traffic or other unsafe conditions that discourage people from walking or being physically active outdoors. The combination of unhealthy social and environmental risk factors, including limited access to healthy foods and opportunities for physical activity, can contribute to increased levels of chronic stress among community members, which have been linked to increased levels of sedentary activity and increased calorie consumption. Creating Equal Opportunities for a Healthy Weight focuses on the key obesity prevention goals and recommendations outlined in Accelerating Progress in Obesity Prevention through the lens of health equity. This report explores critical aspects of obesity prevention, while discussing potential future research, policy, and action that could lead to equity in opportunities to achieve a healthy weight.

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