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The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has requested that the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine conduct a study to review its past obesity-prevention-related recommendations, identify a set of critical recommendations for future action, and recommend indicators of progress in implementing these actions.
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An ad hoc committee of the Institute of Medicine (IOM) will be convened to review IOM’s past obesity prevention-related recommendations, identify a set of critical recommendations for future action, and recommend indicators of progress in implementing these actions.
In carrying out its task, the committee will:
- Review previous IOM obesity-related recommendations and recommendations from other reports.
- Consider relevant information about progress in implementing the recommendations, such as from available reports, articles, analyses, surveys, legislation and regulations, “report cards”, and other relevant literature.
- Develop guiding principles for choosing a set of recommendations.
- Identify a set of recommendations that the committee determines to be fundamental for substantial progress in obesity prevention over the next decade.
- Recommend potential indicators that can act as markers of progress and that can be readily evaluated through the use of current data bases and/or relatively simple measures or surveys.
The key audiences for the report’s recommendations will be public policy makers at all levels, private sector decision makers, and leaders in other institutions including: foundations, the educational system, professional and community-based organizations and health agencies, and the public in general.
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Committee Membership Roster Comments
Note (11/12/2010): There has been a change in committee membership with the appointment of Philip A. Marineau
Sponsors
Department of Health and Human Services
Private: Non Profit
Staff
Lynn Parker
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Major units and sub-units
Institute of Medicine
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Food and Nutrition Board
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