Progress in Preventing Childhood Obesity How Do We Measure Up? (2007) / Chapter Skim
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Appendix I Biographical Sketches
Appendix I Biographical Sketches
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Dr. Koplan has worked on a broad range of major public health issues, including infectious diseases, such as smallpox and HIV/AIDS; environmental issues, such as the chemical disaster in Bhopal, India; and the health toll of tobacco and chronic diseases, both in the United States and globally.
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Dr. Brownson is a chronic disease epidemiologist whose research has focused on tobacco use prevention, the promotion of physical activity, obesity prevention, and the evaluation of community-level interventions.
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The social marketing campaigns work through public-private partnerships; feature special campaigns for children and African-American and Latino parents; and work through a dozen community channels to increase fruit and vegetable intake, physical activity, and food security. They serve California's estimated 7 million lowincome parents and children who qualify for Food Stamp nutrition education because their annual household income falls below 185 percent of the federal poverty level.
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Public Health Service, he served as Director of the Center for Practice and Technology Assessment, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality in DHHS, and as Director of the Clinical Preventive Services Staff of the U.S. Public Health Service of the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion.
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While at CDC, Dr. Kreuter and colleagues refined the epidemiologic study of physical activity, initiated research and programs focused on the early detection of breast cancer, developed a stronger emphasis on school health, and created the Planned Approach to Community Health program.
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Dr. Robinson's community-, school-, and family-based health behavior change research has focused on nutrition, physical activity, and smoking behaviors in children and adolescents; the effects of television viewing on health-related behaviors; childhood obesity prevention and treatment; and the use of interactive communication technologies to promote health behavior change.
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In previous positions, she served as Director of Public Health for the city of Richmond, Virginia, and as Director of Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion at the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services.
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Dr. Kumanyika has served on several IOM committees, including the Committee on the Prevention of Obesity in Children and Youth that preceded the Committee on Progress in Preventing Childhood Obesity.
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She staffed the congressionally directed IOM studies and reports Preventing Childhood Obesity: Health in the Balance and Food Marketing to Children and Youth: Threat or Opportunity?
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Liverman, M.L.S., is a Senior Program Officer in the Food and Nutrition Board and the Board on Health Sciences Policy at the IOM. She served as study director for the congressionally mandated IOM study and subsequent report Preventing Childhood Obesity: Health in the Balance.
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447 APPENDIX I Shannon L Wisham, B.A., is a Research Associate in the Food and Nutrition Board at the IOM where she staffed the congressionally directed IOM studies and reports Preventing Childhood Obesity: Health in the Balance and Food Marketing to Children and Youth: Threat or Opportunity?
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