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Appendix C: Speaker and Moderator Biographies
Appendix C: Speaker and Moderator Biographies
Pages 91-102
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Its work is focused on changing early body mass index trajectories in childhood so as to prevent child hood obesity and later related adult chronic conditions. The interventions developed and tested in the laboratory apply the ecologic model, which considers the child in the context of the family and the family in the context of the community, and how to apply scientific discovery pragmatically in potentially sustainable interventions that can improve the public's health.
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Bodnar was the recipient of the Young Professional Achievement Award from the Coali tion for Excellence in Maternal and Child Health Epidemiology; she also received a Chancellor's Distinguished Research Award from the University of Pittsburgh. Jeni Clapp, M.P.A., is director of healthy eating initiatives at the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, where she oversees strate gies for preventing and reducing the prevalence of chronic disease among New Yorkers.
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, formerly known as the Food Stamp Program; child nutrition programs, including the National School Lunch, School Breakfast, and ummer Food S Service Programs; the Child and Adult Care Food Program; the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) ; and others.
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and Head Start settings, are based on the principles of community-based participatory research and were developed, implemented, and evaluated in collaboration with parents. Current projects focus on parenting around children's snack food intake, strategies to engage fathers in obesity prevention programs and research, and a large-scale community intervention integrating evidence-based programs in multiple sectors (WIC, child care, schools, after-school programs, and community health centers)
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Allison Gertel-Rosenberg, M.S., has spent her career addressing some of the most important and challenging issues in public health. As director of national prevention and practice for Nemours' National Office of Policy and Prevention, she is responsible for leading the office's efforts to spread and scale promising practices and strategic prevention initiatives designed to curb childhood obesity on a national scale, as well as for initiatives that involve the intersection of population health and clinical care.
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He has also served as a consultant or expert for the Health and Medicine Division of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineer ing, and Medicine; the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation; the Global Alli ance for Improved Nutrition; the Access to Nutrition Foundation; and the EPODE International Network, among other notable organizations. For his work with NCCOR, Dr.
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McBride has drawn on his expertise in child development and emphasis on translational research in early childhood settings in serving as one of the senior investigators on the STRONG Kids I & II projects, an interdisciplinary team of nine investigators from across the UIUC campus that is conducting longitudinal research to explore how genetic, family, community, child care, and cultural factors impact inappropriate weight gain and obesity during the early childhood years. A focus of his work with the STRONG Kids team has been on exploring the role of child care contexts in influencing obesity and inappropriate weight gain during the early childhood years.
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She is the recipient of grants from the National Institute of Deafness and Other Communication Disorders and the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development; the author or co-author of numerous peer-reviewed research papers; and an internationally recognized speaker on the ontogeny of flavor preferences and its implications for health and nutritional programming. Cynthia Ogden, Ph.D., is an epidemiologist at the National Center for Health Statistics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
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Purcell founded and became director of the Child and Family Policy Center at the Vanderbilt Institute of Public Policy Studies. From 2008 to 2010, he served as director of the Institute of Politics at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.
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She is director of the National Program Office for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Healthy Eating Research program. Her own research focuses on understanding the multiple factors related to eating behaviors of youth and environmental, community, and school-based interventions for obesity prevention and healthy eating.
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funded project to test a three-component intervention designed to increase healthy nutrition and regular physical activity in children enrolled in fam ily child care homes (KEYS to a Healthy Family Child Care Home)
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