The Lived Experience Innovation Collaborative (LE IC) is an ad hoc activity associated with the Roundtable on Obesity Solutions at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (The National Academies). This ad hoc convening activity fosters information sharing and collaboration toward the Roundtable aims as well as progress on findings highlighted in prior National Academies reports.

Any activities and products associated with this collaborative do not necessarily represent the views of any one organization, the Collaborative, the Roundtable, or the National Academies and have not been subjected to the review procedures of, nor are they reports, products, or activities of the National Academies.

Mission

• Through cross-sector collaboration, uplift and advance the perspectives of people living with obesity in academic, medical, and social dialogue.

Vision

• A shift in societal mental models that promotes the humanization of people with obesity.

Objectives

• To amplify the voices of people living with obesity through dialogues that are evidence-based and with effective dissemination strategies.
• To facilitate conversations that productively engage those living with obesity.
• To educate and inform stakeholders (e.g., medical practitioners, students, and educators, media and journalists, public health professionals, family and community, and Roundtable on Obesity Solutions members) on the impact of implicit and explicit weight bias and stigma, and to ensure that the lived experience of people with obesity is incorporated in health policy and care.

Please stay tuned for more information and contact Cypress Lynx (clynx@nas.edu) with any inquiries.