Mary Story
Researchers from the University of Minnesota School of Public Health have received a 2012?Weight of the Nation?Award. Presented by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the awards recognize?individuals and organizations for outstanding efforts to?support healthy eating and active living.
?Healthy Eating Research: Building Evidence to Prevent Childhood Obesity? was awarded the Pioneering Innovation Award for Applied Obesity Research. Healthy Eating Research is a national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation directed by University of Minnesota School of Public Health professor Mary Story, PhD, RD, with Karen Kaphingst, MPH, serving as deputy director.
?It is an honor to be recognized by fellow public health professionals with a Weight of the Nation Award,? said Story. ?Support from colleagues and other public health organizations helps advance our efforts to curb obesity among children.?
About Healthy Eating Research
Karen Kaphingst
Launched in 2005, Healthy Eating Research supports research on environmental and policy strategies with strong potential to promote healthy eating among children to prevent childhood obesity, especially among lower-income and racial and ethnic populations at highest risk for obesity. ?
The program has funded 109 grants totaling $17.5 million to date in critical areas such as school food environments, menu labeling, access to healthy foods in lower-income communities, food and beverage marketing to children, hunger and obesity, and child care. Healthy Eating Research provides advocates and policymakers with evidence to guide action to reverse the childhood obesity epidemic.
The awards were announced at the Weight of the Nation Conference, held in Washington, D.C.?Honors were given in the categories of systems change, community mobilization, game changer, applied obesity research, and moving forward with technology.
Source: http://www.advances.umn.edu/2012/07/award/
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