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NCCOR Connect & Explore Webinars: Promising U.S. and international strategies for reducing childhood obesity

While childhood obesity remains a global public health challenge, many communities around the world are showing signs of progress and demonstrating innovation in halting and reversing the childhood obesity epidemic. This March and April, NCCOR is hosting one regular and three special-event Connect & Explore Webinars to examine these promising strategies in the United States and abroad.

  • Connect & Explore Webinar – NCCOR’s Childhood Obesity Declines project: Exploring drivers of declines in the United States
    • Traditional NCCOR Connect & Explore Webinar
    • Tuesday, March 22, from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. EST
    • Speakers: Nicola Dawkins-Lyn, ICF International; Tina Kauh, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation; Karol Fink, State of Alaska; Cathy Nonas, New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene; Amanda Wagner, Philadelphia Department of Public Health
  • Connect & Explore Special Event – Reducing childhood obesity disparities: Insights from global strategies to achieve health equity
    • Livestream from the Society of Behavioral Medicine 37th Annual Meeting & Scientific Sessions
    • Thursday, March 31, from 8:15 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. EST
    • Speakers: Vivica Kraak, Virginia Tech (Chair); Shiriki Kumanyika, African American Collaborative Obesity Research Network and Drexel University School of Public Health; Tim Lobstein, World Obesity Federation; Nicola Dawkins-Lyn, ICF International; and Karabi Acharya, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (Discussant)
  • Connect & Explore Special Event – Learning from sugar-sweetened beverage tax evaluations in Mexico, South America, and the U.S. to reverse childhood obesity 
    • Livestream from the Society of Behavioral Medicine 37th Annual Meeting & Scientific Sessions
    • Thursday, March 31, from 1:45 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. EST
    • Speakers: Lori Dorfman, Berkeley Media Studies Group (Chair); Lynn Silver, Public Health Institute; Shu Wen Ng, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Steven L. Gortmaker, Harvard University School of Public Health; Mauricio Hernández-Avila, Mexican National Institute of Public Health (Discussant)
  • Connect & Explore Special Event – Importing, adapting, and evaluating Open Streets & Cicloviá to increase physical activity levels
    • Livestream from the Society of Behavioral Medicine 37th Annual Meeting & Scientific Sessions
    • Friday, April 1, from 8:15 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. EST
    • Speakers: David Berrigan, National Cancer Institute (Chair); Olga Sarmiento, University of Los Andes; Michael Pratt, Emory University Rollins School of Public Health; J. Aaron Hipp, North Carolina State University; Gil Penalosa, 8-80 Cities (Discussant)

On Tuesday, March 22, NCCOR’s Connect & Explore Webinar will highlight the drivers of declines, particularly those that influence disparities. NCCOR’s Childhood Obesity Declines project studied four U.S. communities—Anchorage, Alaska; New York City; Granville County, N.C.; and Philadelphia, Pa.—to better understand which strategies may have influenced reported declines. During this one-hour webinar, listeners will hear the study authors and community leaders in Anchorage, Philadelphia, and New York discuss the study’s key findings and community perspectives on declines.

NCCOR will turn its focus internationally on March 31 and April 1 with Connect & Explore Special Events in which we livestream three panel sessions from the Society of Behavioral Medicine (SBM) 37th Annual Meeting & Scientific Sessions. This special event will offer exclusive access to presentations from internationally renowned scholars. Experts will discuss high-impact childhood obesity strategies from around the world including scalable physical activity interventions in Latin America; sugar-sweetened beverage taxes in Mexico, South America, and the United States; and approaches to eliminating health disparities among U.S. and international populations disproportionately affected by obesity. Each webinar, hosted in partnership with SBM, will provide an overview of the issue, key insights, and implications for childhood obesity research and policy. The SBM sessions will be view-only.

“NCCOR is at the center of understanding the drivers of declines and thinking innovatively about solutions to childhood obesity,” said Todd Phillips, Director of the National Collaborative on Childhood Obesity Research. “Exploring lessons learned from communities in the United States and abroad can play a critical role in spurring future research and action.”

Join us for these upcoming events! Each event is free, but attendance is limited, so register today to receive webinar access. And spread the word to colleagues.

Register for one or more events in the series, Connect & Explore: Promising U.S. and international strategies for reducing childhood obesity

We encourage you to share this information on your social networks using the hashtags #ConnectExplore and #SBM2016. We will also be live tweeting the event, so be sure to follow the conversation at @NCCOR. For those who cannot attend, the webinar will be recorded and archived on www.nccor.org. To learn more about SBM, visit http://www.sbm.org/meetings/2016.

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