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Appendix B: Biographical Sketches
Appendix B: Biographical Sketches
Pages 85-92
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Derek birnie is Executive Director of the Delridge Neighborhoods Development Association, a community development organization serving one of Seattle's most diverse and underinvested neighborhoods. The Association is the lead community partner for the King County Food and Fitness Initiative, a Kellogg Foundation−funded effort to address childhood obesity and other disparate health outcomes resulting from regional inequities.
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He serves as the city's representative to the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments Board of Directors, the Transportation Planning Board, and the Virginia Municipal League's General Laws Committee. Previously, he served on the city's Economic Development Authority, the Parks and Recreation Advisory Board, the Crossings Condominiums Board of Directors, and the 2004 School Bonds Task Force Steering Committee.
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She heads a Childhood Obesity Prevention project funded by the Office of Minority Health in the Office of the Secretary of Health and Human Services. genoveva Islas-Hooker is Regional Program Coordinator for the Central California Regional Obesity Prevention Program (CCROPP)
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gretchen Musicant is Minneapolis Health Commissioner, overseeing the Minneapolis Department of Health and Family Support, whose mission is "to promote health equity in Minneapolis and meet the unique needs of our urban population by providing leadership and fostering partnerships." Prior to working for the city, Ms. Musicant was Vice President of Community Health for the Minnesota Hospital Association and a Government Affairs Specialist for the Minnesota Nurses Association.
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In that capacity, Ms. Standish serves as lead officer on many of the Endowment's major funding initiatives, including Healthy Eating Active Communities, which supports community coalitions to develop and implement policies and programs to reduce obesity; Community Action to Fight Asthma, which focuses on reducing environmental triggers for asthma among school-aged children; and The Partnership for the Public's Health, a 5-year program designed to build strong, effective partnerships between local public health departments and the communities they serve.
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, and he also serves on COG's Public Safety Policy Committee to address regional matters. Additionally, he is a member of the National Association of Counties' Member Programs and Services Committee and the Justice and Public Safety Steering Committee, as well as the Virginia Association of Counties' Administration of Government Committee, and he serves as Vice President of the National Association of Hispanic County Officials.
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Mr. Vigilance has been instrumental in local legislative changes aimed at reducing youth access to tobacco and has been a collaborator with the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health to provide regular applied public health internship opportunities.
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in nutrition communication from Tufts University. Lynn Parker is a Scholar and Study Director for the IOM's Standing Committee on Childhood Obesity Prevention, Committee on Childhood Obesity Prevention Actions for Local Governments, and Committee on an Evidence Framework for Obesity Prevention Decision Making.
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