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Working with community partners in Boston to improve nutrition and physical activity policies and environments: The harvard school of public health prevention research center
Wednesday, November 6, 2013
: 11:25 a.m. - 11:40 a.m.
Angie L. Cradock, ScD,
Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA
Catherine M. Giles, MPH,
Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA
Rebekka M. Lee, ScD,
Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard School of Public Health, Prevention Research Center, Boston, MA
Erica Kenney, ScD, MPH,
Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA
Steven Gortmaker, PhD,
Harvard School of Public Health Prevention Research Center, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA
The Harvard Prevention Research Center (HPRC) is engaged with the CDC-supported Nutrition and Obesity Policy Research and Evaluation Network (NOPREN) in an initiative to increase healthy beverages in Boston. The HPRC works with the Boston Public Health Commission to evaluate the impact of Boston Mayor Menino's Executive order to remove sugar sweetened beverages from city property and increase access to tap water and other healthier beverages, and also works with the Boston Public Schools to increase tap water access. The HPRC has worked over the past five years to improve afterschool nutrition and physical activity in multiple afterschool settings including the Boston YMCA, Boys and Girls Clubs, and Boston Centers for Youth and Families through their research project, Out of School Nutrition and Physical Activity (OSNAP). These initiatives will be discussed.
Learning Areas:
Program planning
Public health or related education
Public health or related public policy
Public health or related research
Learning Objectives:
Discuss 2 strategies to increase healthy beverage consumption in Boston.
Describe initiatives that have been implemented in afterschool settings to improve nutrition and physical activity.
Keyword(s): Obesity, Community Research
Presenting author's disclosure statement:Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I am Deputy Director at the Harvard Prevention Research Center on Nutrition and Physical Activity (HPRC) and a Senior Research Scientist at the Harvard School of Public Health where my research is primarily focused on the social and environmental factors associated with physical activity and nutrition behaviors among youth. Specific areas of interest include school and neighborhood environments, community-based intervention research, and policy research.
Any relevant financial relationships? No
I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines,
and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed
in my presentation.
