Perspectives from United Kingdom and United States Policy Makers on Obesity Prevention Workshop Summary (2010) / Chapter Skim
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Appendix D: Speaker Biosketches
Appendix D: Speaker Biosketches
Pages 79-86
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He has served in a number of national organizations, including serving as President of the American Public Welfare Association, President of the National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors, trustee of the American Public Human Services Association, board member of the American Humane Association, and co-chair of the Milbank Memorial Fund state steering committee.
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Fielding is the Director of Los Angeles County Department of Public Health and the County Health Officer, responsible for all public health functions including surveillance and control of both communicable and non-communicable diseases, and of health protection, including emergency preparedness, for the County's 10 million residents. He directs a staff of 4,000 with an annual budget exceeding $800 million.
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She was a Harkness Fellow in 1992 to 1993 based at the Harvard School of Public Health. As well as working in hospitals, she was Chief Executive of an NHS Community Trust, which included managing school health and other preventive services.
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Dr. Jebb also leads the HNR Communications team who focus on the translation of nutrition science into policy and practice, working with policy makers, industry, health professionals, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs)
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Professionally qualified as a public health microbiologist, she has a wide breadth of health policy experience including primary and secondary care services, as well as service management and improvement. Most recently she has joined the Cross Government Obesity Unit at the UK Department of Health as Policy and Stakeholder Manager to lead on policy development
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He was Co-Author of the recent Foresight Report Tackling Obesities -- Future Choices with Government Office for Science, for which he was responsible for epidemiological modeling. He is currently on the expert working group advising the Cross Government Strategy on obesity prevention.
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, the nation's largest organization of emergency food providers, comprised of 215 regional food banks and food recovery organizations serving 50,000 local food pantries and soup kitchens. She was actively engaged in working with federal officials to formulate federal food assistance and human services policy, with an emphasis on federal policies necessary to help create a hunger free America.
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Harriet Tregoning is the Director of the Washington, DC, Office of Planning, where she works to make Washington, DC, a walkable, bikeable, vibrant, eminently livable, globally competitive and sustainable city. Prior to this she was the director of the Governors' Institute on Community Design and co-founder, with former Maryland Governor Glendening, and executive director of the Smart Growth Leadership Institute.
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