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Appendix D: Biographical Sketches of Workshop Speakers and Planning Committee Members
Appendix D: Biographical Sketches of Workshop Speakers and Planning Committee Members
Pages 95-106
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Dr. Allender leads two partnership grants from Australia's National Health and Medical Research Council on community-based childhood obesity strategies, he is a lead investigator for the Centre of Research Excellence in Food Retail Environments for Health and the European Union Horizon 2020 CO-CREATE grant for healthier policy in Europe, and he is a named researcher for the Australian Prevention Partnership Centre.
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She has served as the principal investigator of several community-based participatory research projects focused on disease risk reduction among rural racial and ethnic minorities. These projects have been supported by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute; the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF)
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Her research, funded by the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, and the Department of Defense, targets family and community social networks to promote healthy eating and prevent childhood obesity.
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Her research areas include social epidemiology and health disparities, environmental health effects, urban health, psychosocial factors in health, cardiovascular disease epidemiology, and the use of multilevel methods. Recent areas of work include social environment–gene inter actions and the use of complex systems approaches in population health.
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In her role as the CHWN director, Dr. Eneli oversees a comprehensive tertiary care pediatric obesity center with activities that include advocacy, prevention, medical weight management, and adolescent bariatric surgery.
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As a public health researcher and practitioner with ex pertise in community-based participatory and systems science research, her research involves community-based program planning, evaluation, and research with diverse communities, including American Indian, Latino, and African American populations. She integrates engaged and participa tory research approaches with systems science methods in order to address health issues in underserved communities.
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She is committed to working with diverse communities to promote health through better nutrition and physical activity and to training the next generation of leaders and engaged citizens. She leads an active research portfolio that includes a study to test and evaluate the use of telehealth innovations in the delivery of the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children of the U.S.
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Dr. Kasman's recent research has focused on whole-of-community childhood obesity preven tion interventions, retail tobacco control, racial disparities in exposure to HIV, access to physical activity, maternal and childhood consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages, food preference formation, college affirmative action, subsidized college tuition, school choice and student assignment algorithms, and financial literacy.
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Dr. Kumanyika is the founding chair of the Council on Black Health (formerly the African American Collaborative Obesity Research Network)
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The ultimate goal is to elucidate the pathways linked to cardiometabolic risk phenotypes and most responsive to targeted health behavior interventions. This re search program is designed to leverage community-based participatory research principles, epidemiologic methods, and translational approaches to harness emerging technologies in improving the cardiometabolic health of at-risk, underserved communities most affected by health disparities.
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He was the founding president of the International Association for Worksite Health Promotion and has served on boards and committees at the National Acad emies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine; the American Heart Associa tion; and the Health Enhancement Research Organization, among others. He is widely published in both the scientific and practice literatures and is an international speaker on population health and health promotion.
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A past president of the Society for Behavioral Medicine (SBM) , she is a recipient of SBM's awards for distinguished research men tor, research to practice translation, outstanding optimization research, and distinguished leadership, as well as the founding editor of its journal, Translational Behavioral Medicine: Practice, Policy, Research.
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