Alliances for Obesity Prevention Finding Common Ground: Workshop Summary (2012) / Chapter Skim
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Appendix B: Speaker Biographical Sketches
Appendix B: Speaker Biographical Sketches
Pages 61-70
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Dr. Robinson's solution-oriented research has focused on experimental studies of environmental, community-, school-, and family-based health behavior change interventions related to nutrition, physical activity, media use, and smoking behaviors in children and adolescents, as well as childhood obesity prevention and treatment.
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Dr. Thompson has led efforts in planning and implementing health care financing reform and tobacco- and obesity-related health promotion and disease prevention programs in Arkansas, including documenting the state's success in halting the progress of the childhood obesity epidemic.
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Dr. Yancey serves on HHS's Physical Activity Guidelines Committee, the scientific advisory committee for the American Heart Association, the IOM Health Literacy Roundtable, and ad hoc peer review committees for the American Cancer Society and National Cancer Institute.
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CHC also operates two leadership development programs: the Bill Emerson National Hunger Fellows Program and the Mickey Leland International Hunger Fellows Program. Before joining CHC, Mr.
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Erickson, Ph.D., is director of the Center for Community Development Investments at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco and edits the Federal Reserve journal Community Development Investment Review. His research in the Community Development Department of the Federal Reserve encompasses community development finance, affordable housing, economic development, and institutional changes that benefit low-income communities.
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. Since November 2008, she has convened the Building Trust Initiative in an effort to build authentic trust among sectors addressing obesity and chronic disease prevention (http://buildingtrustinitiative.
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In his current position, Captain Higgins manages a national program responsible for the health and wellbeing of almost 300 million visitors a year to the 395 units of the national park system. Doug Imig, Ph.D., is professor of political science at the University of Memphis and director of the Center for Urban Child Policy at the Urban Child Institute in Memphis, Tennessee.
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CFSC is a national, nonprofit coalition of diverse people and organizations working from the local to the international level to build community food security. CFSC is dedicated to catalyzing food systems that are healthy, sustainable, just, and democratic by building community voice and capacity for change.
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Thomas was vice president, global innovation for the Hershey Company. In this role, she led work that identified new platform opportunities for growth based on consumer and marketplace trends and insights, translating them into sustainable product and partnership ideas that delivered profitable growth for the company.
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