Community and Public Health Nutrition

Community and Public Health Approaches to Obesity Prevention (Oral 21)

Chair(s)

• 

  Ock Chun, PhD

  Associate Professor
  University of Connecticut
  Storrs, Connecticut

Co-Chair(s)

• MO

  Melissa Olfert, DrPH, RDN

  Associate Professor
  West Virginia University
  Morgantown, West Virginia

Speaker(s)

• LR

  Lorrene Ritchie

  Director and CE Specialist
  Nutrition Policy Institute, University of California
  Berkeley, California
• 

  Ada Garcia, PhD RNut

  Lecturer in Public Health Nutrition
  University of Glasgow
  Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
• JB

  Jessie Boukarim

  Research Assistant
  University of Rhode Island- Community Nutrition and Childhood Obesity Prevention Lab
  Wakefield, Rhode Island
• 

  Rachel Novotny, PhD RDN

  Professor
  University of Hawaii at Manoa
  Honolulu, Hawaii
• 

  Buyun Liu

  Postdoc Research Scholar
  University of Iowa
  Iowa City, Iowa
• JS

  Jodi Stookey

  
  San Francisco Department of Public Health
  San Francisco, California
• MO

  Melissa Olfert, DrPH, RDN

  Associate Professor
  West Virginia University
  Morgantown, West Virginia
• 

  Gilda Zacarias, MSc

  PhD Student
  Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro
  Queretaro, Queretaro de Arteaga, Mexico

Presentations:

• 10:30 AM - 10:45 AM

  Community Programs, Policies and Practices Related to an Increased Prevalence of Healthy Weight: The California Healthy Kids Study
• 10:45 AM - 11:00 AM

  Effects of the “Eat Better Feel Better” cooking programme on child and family obesogenic eating behaviours in Glasgow, Scotland
• 11:00 AM - 11:15 AM

  Is the city of Providence, Rhode Island ready for an obesity prevention intervention?
• 11:15 AM - 11:30 AM

  Children’s Healthy Living Multilevel Community Randomized Trial Decreased Young Child Overweight, Obesity and Acanthosis Nigricans in the US affiliated Pacific
• 11:30 AM - 11:45 AM

  Association between use of organic foods and obesity in US children and adolescents: analysis of a population based, cross-sectional study
• 11:45 AM - 12:00 PM

  Diabetes Diagnosis Consistently Increases The Relative Odds of Meeting Pregnancy Weight Gain Recommendations For Overweight/Obese Women In San Francisco
• 12:00 PM - 12:15 PM

  Influences Of Campus Environment Perceptions On Physical Activity Of College Students
• 12:15 PM - 12:30 PM

  Mothers´ Barriers and Motivators to Provide a Healthy Diet to Their Families in Mexican Communities