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Appendix C: Biographical Sketches of Workshop Speakers and Planning Committee Members
Appendix C: Biographical Sketches of Workshop Speakers and Planning Committee Members
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Fund for United Nations Children's Fund, and as a fellow at the Italian Mission to the United Nations. She has experience teaching public health, community health, and research methods courses in various universities at both the undergraduate and graduate levels (Brooklyn College, Hunter College, and the City University of New York [CUNY]
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; member of the Ministry of Health Chronic Diseases advisory board, the PAHO Expert Group on sodium reduction, and the World Obesity Federation Scientific Advisory Board; and fellow of the Obesity Society. He has been recognized as a top-level national researcher by Mexico's National Council of Science and Technology, and a fellow of the Mexican National Academy of Medicine and the Mexican Academy of Sciences.
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He served on the Working Group on Implementation, Monitoring and Accountability of the Commission on Ending Childhood Obesity of the World Health Organization, and has advised and supported United Nations agencies; governments; social movements; and professional, scientific, and civil society organizations worldwide, including the World Public Health Nutrition Association and the World Obesity Federation.
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Christina Economos, Ph.D., is co-founder and director of ChildObesity180 and is professor and New Balance chair in childhood nutrition at the F riedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University. As the principal investigator for large-scale research studies, Dr.
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, the Lancet Commission on Obesity, and the Planning Committee of the Native American Nutrition Conferences
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The main themes of her research concern prevention and control of obesity and other diet-related risk factors and chronic diseases, with a particular focus on reducing the prevalence and health burdens of obesity in black communities. In 2002, she formed the African American Collaborative Obesity Research Network (AACORN)
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She also studies nutritional drivers of the global obesity and diabetes epidemics in countries undergoing epidemiologic transition, and currently directs the Global Nutrition and Epidemiologic Transition Initiative, a collaborative project involving 13 low- and middle-income countries that aims to reduce diabetes risk by improving diet and lifestyle. She is an associate editor for BMC Obesity and a review editor for Frontiers in Public Health.
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thesis, entitled "Epidemiology and Epigenetics of Type 2 Diabetes among African Migrants in Europe." After completing her Ph.D., she obtained a grant to continue her work on African populations at AMC-UvA for 1 year as a postdoctoral research fellow. As part of this postdoctoral position, she spent some time as a visiting research fellow in the Global Health and Populations Department, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, United Kingdom.
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, the Committee on Accelerating Progress in Obesity Prevention (vice chair) , and the Standing Committee on Childhood Obesity Prevention (member)
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In this capacity she provides leadership, support, and policy advice on the Bank's nutrition portfolio across the spectrum of undernutrition and obesity, managing key partnerships such as the Power of Nutrition and the Japan Trust Fund, and firmly positioning nutrition within the Global Financing Facility for Reproductive, Maternal, Neonatal, Child, and Adolescent Health and the Bank's new initiative on human capital. She is also responsible for building cross-sectoral linkages with the agriculture, water and sanitation, education, and social protection Global Practices.
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She holds a Ph.D. in international nutrition, epidemiology and population studies from Cornell University and has consulted extensively, including with Johns Hopkins University Population Communications Services and Population Services International.
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