African American Collaborative Obesity Research Network
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University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
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AACORN Member Toni Yancey named to board of Partnership for a Healthier America

Partnership for a Healthier America, an independent, non-partisan organization that aims to mobilize the private sector, policymakers, media and local communities to action and to further the goals of First Lady Michelle Obama's "Let's Move!" campaign to curb childhood obesity within a generation, has named Antronette K. (Toni) Yancey, MD, MPH, to its national board.

Partnership for a Healthier America also named former Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, M.D., and Newark Mayor Cory Booker as honorary co-chairs of the organization and Dr. James R. Gavin, III as chair of the board.

According to a press release by the Partnership, the First Lady welcomed several of the new board members on conference call. "Reversing the obesity trend has never been more important to the health of our nation and, to succeed, it will take the combined effort of public and private sectors," the First Lady said. "I am encouraged by the enthusiasm and resolve of the honorary vice chairs and new board of directors, and I am confident that their leadership and experience will help us achieve our goal of solving childhood obesity within a generation."

Also named to the board were Deborah DeHaas, Peter Dolan, S. Lawrence Kocot, Deborah Landesman, Janet Murguia, Vivan Riefberg and William L. Roper.

For more information about Partnership for a Healthier America, visit its Web site, www.ahealthieramerica.org

For more information about Let's Move!, visit its Web site, www.letsmove.gov.

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Funk KL, Stevens VJ, Appel LJ, Bauck A, Brantley PJ, Champagne CM, Coughlin JW, Dalcin AT, Harvey-Berino J, Hollis JF, Jerome GJ, Kennedy BM, Lien LF, Myers VH, Samuel-Hodge C, Svetkey LP, Vollmer WM.

Associations of Internet Website Use with Weight Change in a Long-term Weight Loss Maintenance Program.

J Med Internet Res 2010 Jul 27;12(3):e29


 

Kumanyika SK, Prewitt TE, Banks J, Samuel-Hodge C.

In the Way, or On the Way?: Asking Ourselves About the Role of Contextual Factors in Community Based Obesity Research [White paper].

African American Collaborative Obesity Research Network. (July 2010).

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