Roundtable on Obesity Solutions 10th Anniversary: Looking Back, Moving Forward: Proceedings of a Symposium (2025)
Chapter: Appendix A: Agenda
Appendix A
Agenda
ROUNDTABLE ON OBESITY SOLUTIONS
10TH ANNIVERSARY SYMPOSIUM
Obesity Solutions: Looking Back, Moving Forward
National Academy of Sciences Building
2101 Constitution Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20418
JULY 24, 2024
Lecture Room
| 9:30 a.m. |
Welcome
Nicolaas P. Pronk, Ph.D., M.A., FACSM, FAWHP, President, HealthPartners Institute; Chief Science Officer, HealthPartners Inc.; Chair of the Roundtable on Obesity Solutions Marcia McNutt, Ph.D., President, National Academy of Sciences Monica N. Feit, Ph.D., M.P.H., Executive Director, Health and Medicine Division, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine |
RETROSPECTIVE: THE OBESITY LANDSCAPE PRIOR TO THE ROUNDTABLE ON OBESITY SOLUTIONS: CRISIS CONTROL
| 9:35 a.m. |
Shiriki K. Kumanyika, Ph.D., M.P.H., M.S., Emeritus Professor of Epidemiology, University of Pennsylvania; Research Professor, Department of Community Health & Prevention, Dana and David Dornsife School of Public Health, Drexel University; and Founder, Council on Black Health |
SETTING THE FOUNDATION: REFLECTIONS FROM THE FIRST LEADERSHIP TEAM OF THE ROUNDTABLE ON OBESITY SOLUTIONS
| 10:05 a.m. |
Moderator: Nicolaas P. Pronk, Ph.D., M.A., FACSM, FAWHP, President, HealthPartners Institute; Chief Science Officer, HealthPartners Inc.; Chair of the Roundtable on Obesity Solutions Russell R. Pate, Ph.D., Professor in the Department of Exercise Science, Arnold School of Public Health, University of South Carolina William P. Purcell, J.D., Adjunct Professor of Public Policy Studies, Vanderbilt University; Counsel, Frost Brown Todd LLP; Chair, Board of the Nashville Metropolitan Development and Housing Agency Mary Story, Ph.D., R.D., Professor in Global Health and Family Medicine and Community Health, Duke University; Director for Academic Programs, Duke Global Health Institute |
| 10:25 a.m. | Break |
FINDING OUR FOCUS AND ESTABLISHING PRIORITIES FOR OBESITY SOLUTIONS
| 10:40 a.m. |
Christina D. Economos, Ph.D., Dean, Professor, New Balance Chair in Childhood Nutrition; Chair, Division of Nutrition Interventions, Communication, and Behavior Change, Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Tufts University; Cofounder, ChildObesity 180; Vice Chair of the Roundtable on Obesity Solutions |
INCORPORATING THE LIVED EXPERIENCE: THE CRUCIAL ROLE OF LEARNING FROM PEOPLE LIVING WITH OBESITY
| 11:10 a.m. |
Moderator: Joseph Nadglowski, President and CEO, Obesity Action Coalition Theodore Kyle, R.Ph., M.B.A., Advocacy Advisor, The Obesity Society Kristen Sullivan, M.S., M.P.H., Director of Prevention and Survivorship, American Cancer Society Nikki Massie, M.A., Member, National Board of Directors, Obesity Action Coalition |
CATALYZING ACTION ACROSS MULTIPLE SECTORS
| 11:30 a.m. |
Moderator: Stephanie A. Navarro Silvera, Ph.D., M.S., C.P.H., Professor, Department of Public Health, Montclair State University Katie Adamson, Vice President of Health Partnerships and Policy, YMCA of the USA Jennifer Fassbender, M.S., CEP-ACSM, Program Director, Social Determinants of Health, Capacity Building and Capital Access Programs, Reinvestment Fund Allison Gertel-Rosenberg, M.S., Vice President, Chief Policy and Prevention Officer, Nemours Children’s Health |
| 12:05 p.m. | Lunch Break |
STATE OF OBESITY NOW
| 1:10 p.m. |
William H. Dietz, M.D., Ph.D., Professor, Exercise and Nutrition Sciences, Milken Institute School of Public Health; Director of Research and Policy, Global Food Institute, The George Washington University |
EMBRACING NEW REALITIES WITHIN THE FIELD OF OBESITY
| 1:40 p.m. |
Moderator: Tracy J. Sims, M.A., Executive Director, Corporate Affairs, Eli Lilly and Company Anand K. Parekh, M.D., M.P.H., Chief Medical Advisor, Bipartisan Policy Center |
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Angela Odoms-Young, Ph.D., The Nancy Schlegel Meinig Associate Professor of Maternal and Child Nutrition, Director of the Food and Nutrition Education in Communities Program and New York State Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program, Division of Nutritional Sciences, Cornell University Laurie Whitsel, Ph.D., National Vice President of Policy Research, American Heart Association; Senior Advisor, Physical Activity Alliance |
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| 2:30 p.m. | Break |
ALTERNATIVE PERSPECTIVES ON THE FUTURE OF OBESITY SOLUTIONS
| 2:40 p.m. |
Moderator: Megan Nechanicky, M.S., R.D., Nutrition Manager, Bell Institute of Health and Nutrition, General Mills Sherry Frey, Vice President of Total Wellness, NielsenIQ John Cawley, Ph.D., Professor, Brooks School of Public Policy and Department of Economics, Cornell University Thomas N. Robinson, M.D., M.P.H., Irving Schulman, MD, Endowed Professor in Child Health, Professor of Pediatrics, of Medicine, and of Epidemiology & Population Health, Stanford University Jessica Fanzo, Ph.D., Professor of Climate and the Director of the Food for Humanity Initiative, Climate School, Columbia University |
A CLOSING CONVERSATION ABOUT NEW OPPORTUNITIES AND THE NEXT 10 YEARS
| 3:30 p.m. |
Moderator: Nicolaas P. Pronk, Ph.D. M.A., FACSM, FAWHP, President, HealthPartners Institute; Chief Science Officer, HealthPartners Inc.; Chair of the Roundtable on Obesity Solutions Ihuoma Eneli, M.D., M.S., FAAP, Head, Section of Nutrition, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus; Vice Chair of the Roundtable on Obesity Solutions Patricia Nece, J.D., Immediate Past Chair, Obesity Action Coalition Kristal Hartman, Chair, Obesity Action Coalition |
| 4:00 p.m. | Adjourn |
