On Thursday, March 20, Dr. Laura Bogart will be discussing the development and results of Students for Nutrition and eXercise (SNaX), a five-week middle school-based obesity prevention intervention that combines school-wide food environmental changes, multimedia, encouragement to eat healthy school cafeteria foods, and peer-led education.
She will describe the formation and maintenance of the partnership with the participating school district, the Los Angeles Unified School District, as well as relevant community stakeholders; review the results of the randomized controlled trial; and discuss the policy impact of the research and program dissemination activities. Dr. Bogart is associate professor of pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, and research director of the Division of General Pediatrics at Boston Children’s Hospital.
The presentation will take place from 3-4:40 p.m. at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) main campus, Clinical Center, Building 10, Masur Auditorium.
The seminar will be made available in the NIH video archives and on the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) website after the seminar.
For more information, please visit http://www.nimhd.nih.gov/news/semSeries/2014semSeries/03-2014.html