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Appendix J: Committee Biographies
Appendix J: Committee Biographies
Pages 443-450
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Earlier, he chaired both the IOM Committee to Review the CDC's Centers for Research and Demonstration of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention and the IOM Committee on Drug Abuse Prevention Research. He received his B.S., M.P.H., and Dr.P.H.
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Her expertise covers childhood obesity, food insecurity, chronic disease epidemiology, and analysis and interpretation of national survey data to study low-income and high-risk populations. Previously, Dr.
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Dr. Fawcett was an IOM Scholarin-Residence, an external reviewer for the IOM Committee report on Progress in Preventing Childhood Obesity, and a member of the IOM Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice.
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His recent research work has emphasized interventions to reduce health disparities in healthy eating and active living by addressing social and physical environmental determinants of health. He has worked with multiple sectors to imple ment and evaluate menu labeling in King County, design and build healthy public housing communities, reduce access to sugary beverages, and develop and evaluate community health worker interventions to 446 Evaluating Obesity Prevention Efforts
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He is founding chair of the National Association of County and City Health Officials Big Cities Chronic Disease Community of Practice and leads its sugar-sweetened beverage work group. He is co-chair of Advancing the Movement, a CDC- and foundation-sponsored effort to connect the hundreds of healthy community initiatives across the nation into a learning community.
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Pronk formerly served on the Clinical Obesity Research Panel at NIH, the Carter Center Medical Home initiative, the Defense Health Board (Armed Forces Epidemiological Board) , the Health Promotion Advisory Panel at the National Commission on Quality Assurance (NCQA)
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She is principal investigator of several NIH- and CDC-funded studies related to childhood obesity prevention.
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