2021 Year in Review: Roundtable on Obesity Solutions (2022)

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2021 YEAR IN REVIEW ROUNDTABLE ON OBESITY SOLUTIONS MISSION ROUNDTABLE STRATEGIC ROADMAP Established in 2014, the Roundtable on Obesity Solutions brings together diverse sectors and voices to solve the obesity crisis. Through meetings, public workshops, publications, and innovation collaboratives, the Roundtable fosters an ongoing dialogue on critical and emerging issues in obesity prevention, treatment, and weight maintenance. The Roundtable explores the science, evidence, evaluation, and innovation efforts that advance progress in reducing the impact of obesity, as well as applies effective equity strategies to address obesity-related disparities. Utilizing a policy, systems, and environmental change lens, the Roundtable explores and advances effective solutions. 43 MEMBERS INNOVATION COLLABOR ATIVES From the following sectors: Work continues in five innovation collaboratives—ad hoc convening Public sector Business/Industry activities that foster information sharing and collaboration toward Non-profit Philanthropy the Roundtable aims. They engage interested members and others Academia to develop tools, metrics, and frameworks for on-the-ground implementation and to identify and disseminate promising practices: With representatives from the areas of the federal government, community and national nonprofits, health care, health insurance, Business Engagement in Obesity Solutions Innovation Collaborative public health, worksite/employer, industry, early care and Early Care and Education Innovation Collaborative education, education/school-based, food/nutrition, physical Integrated Clinical and Social Systems for the Prevention and activity, policy, research, and public advocacy. Management of Obesity Innovation Collaborative Lived Experience Innovation Collaborative (New) Physical Activity and Health Innovation Collaborative COLLABOR ATIONS Each meeting of the roundtable presents an opportunity for member connections and collaborations. The roundtable COMMUNICATION remains committed to provide opportunities for its members to interact with each other and invited speakers on obesity-related projects with the understanding that this The Roundtable takes a systems approach to dissemination—a multi- is an important way to foster dialogue and accelerate the layered process that meets people on all media platforms. Visit us online. implementation of multi-sector work. Website: NATIONALACADEMIES.ORG/OUR-WORK /ROUNDTABLE-ON-OBESIT Y-SOLUTIONS ENGAGEMENT AND READERSHIP @NASEM_HEALTH #OBESITYSOLUTIONSRT The roundtable’s virtual workshops and publications in 2021 FACEBOOK engaged participants and readers representing more than 500 local, state, and federal departments and agencies and LINKEDIN WORKING ACROSS SECTORS  more than 700 nongovernmental organizations, which include TO SOLVE OBESITY nonprofits, philanthropies, and private-sector entities. 01 

ACTIVITIES ADDRESSING STRUCTURAL RACISM, BIAS, AND HEALTH To learn more, visit the workshop page. 1 COMMUNICATION AS FOUNDATIONAL DRIVERS OF OBESITY WATCH PRESENTATION VIDEOS (Virtual Workshop Series) DOWNLOAD PROCEEDINGS OF A WORKSHOP—IN BRIEF During its eighth year, the roundtable hosted a three-part workshop series exploring sustainable systems-wide changes SYSTEMS AND OBESITY: ADVANCES AND INNOVATIONS to reduce the prevalence and incidence of obesity. It examined FOR EQUITABLE HEALTH AND WELL-BEING: A THIRD the connections between drivers of obesity and promising WORKSHOP IN THE SERIES solutions that have the potential for lasting systems change, This workshop explored how to advance strategies for including effective health communication, structural racism, sustainable systems-wide changes that leverage the three and bias and stigma. drivers (biased mental models/social norms, structural The Proceedings of a Workshop will be available spring 2022. racism, and health communication) introduced in the first two workshops that can inform actionable priorities for EXPLORING STRATEGIES FOR SUSTAINABLE SYSTEMS-WIDE individuals, organizations, and policy makers to reduce CHANGES TO REDUCE THE PREVALENCE OF OBESITY: A both the incidence and prevalence of obesity. An additional FIRST WORKSHOP IN THE SERIES session focused on patient–provider communication around obesity treatment and solutions. This workshop explored the intersection of weight bias and stigma and obesity in the context of the health care To learn more, visit the workshop page. and workplace setting. The workshop also examined the intersection of structural racism and obesity in the context of WATCH PRESENTATION VIDEOS housing and education, identifying policies and structures of oppression and promising solutions. The Proceedings of a Workshop—in Brief will be available spring 2022. To learn more, visit the workshop page. WATCH PRESENTATION VIDEOS 2 CONNECTING THE ROUNDTABLE’S STRATEGIC PLAN TO EXISTING NATIONAL ACADEMIES’ WORK DOWNLOAD PROCEEDINGS OF A WORKSHOP—IN BRIEF In 2021, the roundtable also held member-focused meetings / to learn from and dialogue with National Academies’ activities working in the roundtable’s strategic priority areas LEVERAGING HEALTH COMMUNICATION, DATA, AND of effective health communication, structural racism, and INNOVATIVE APPROACHES FOR SUSTAINABLE SYSTEMS- stigma and bias. These activities included: WIDE CHANGES TO REDUCE THE PREVALENCE OF OBESITY: A SECOND WORKSHOP IN THE SERIES • Consensus Study on High and Rising Mortality Rates Among Working-Age Adults This workshop addressed data and innovative approaches for • Food and Nutrition Board sustainable systems-wide changes to reduce the prevalence • Food Forum of obesity. The sessions addressed how to operationalize • National Academy of Medicine’s Culture of Health Program health communication and explore innovative data and policy • Roundtable on Black Men and Black Women in Science, approaches for obesity solutions. It also connected health Engineering, and Medicine communication to current modeling and data-driven efforts to • Roundtable on the Promotion of Health Equity advance obesity solutions. • Standing Committee on Advancing Science Communication PERSPECTIVES PAPER This year, three National Academy of Medicine’s (NAM) Perspectives papers*—expert commentaries and discussion papers—grew out of roundtable and innovation collaborative activities and discussions: Lessons Learned for Obesity Prevention and Care from Five Integrated Programs by William H. Dietz, Jennifer E. Fassbender, Jeffrey Levi, Nicolaas P. Pronk, Susan Z. Yanovski, and David D. Fukuzawa Children’s Access to Healthy Food Suffers When Child Care Programs Close Their Doors by Jennifer Bonney, Elizabeth Campbell, Debbie I. Chang, Carol Dreibelbis, Lynette M. Fraga, Geraldine Henchy, Jeff Hild, Roshelle Payes, and Jennifer Weber Obesity, Biased Mental Models, and Stigma in the Context of the Obesity COVID-19 Syndemic by Peter S. Hovmand, Nicolaas P. Pronk, Theodore K. Kyle, Joseph Nadglowski, Patricia M. Nece, and Cypress T. Lynx To view a list of all of the roundtable’s NAM Perspectives, visit https://www.nationalacademies.org/our-work/roundtable-on-obesity- solutions/publications * NAM Perspectives, published by the National Academy of Medicine (NAM), are individually authored papers by roundtable members and outside experts in health and health care. The views expressed in these papers are those of the authors and not necessarily of the authors’ organizations, the NAM, or the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (the National Academies). Perspectives are intended to help inform and stimulate discussion. They are not reports of the NAM or the 02 National Academies.