NUTRITION AND OBESITY RESOURCES
The Future of Children
http://www.futureofchildren.org/pubs-info3133/pubs-info
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
http://www.cdc.gov/
Contact: press office, 404.639.3286; in.the.news@cdc.gov
http://childstats.gov
National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, CDC
http://www.cdc.gov/HealthyYouth/yrbs/index.htm
National Center for Health Statistics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/default.htm
Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System
http://www.cdc.gov/healthyyouth/yrbs/index.htm
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
http://www.nationalchildrensstudy.gov/index.cfm
Assistant Director
Bush Center in Child Development and Social Policy
Yale Univeristy
Address:
310 Prospect Street
New Haven, CT 06511
Phone:
203.432.9935
E-mail:
sandra.bishop@yale.edu
Web:
www.yale.edu/bushcenter...
The center brings research-based knowledge of child development to the federal and state policy arenas in an effort to improve social policy affecting the lives of children and families in the United States.
Robert W. Blum M.D.
William H. Gates Sr. Professor of Pediatrics
Chair, Department of Population and Family Health Sciences
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Address:
615 N. Wolfe St., Suite E4527
Baltimore, MD 21205
Phone:
410.955.3384
E-mail:
rblum@jhsph.edu
Web:
http://faculty.jhsph.edu/?F=Robert&L=Blum...
Dr. Blum’s research interests include adolescent sexuality, chronic illness and international adolescent health care issues. He was co-investigator for the National Longitudinal Study on Adolescent Health, the largest survey of American youth ever undertaken. Recently, he published a study in the American Journal of Public Health debunking the myths that race, income, and family structure can be major predictors of youth health risk behaviors.
J. Larry Brown Ph.D.
Executive Director
Center on Hunger and Poverty
Heller Graduate School, Brandeis University
Address:
Mailstop 077
Waltham, MA 02454
Phone:
781.736.8885
E-mail:
jlbrown@brandeis.edu
Web:
http://www.centeronhunger.org/...
The center is an outgrowth of the Harvard-based Physician Task Force on Hunger in America which, during the 1980s, made field visits across the U.S. and released studies on the extent and causes of hunger. Brown, created the center as a vehicle to address not only hunger, but its cause - growing poverty and income inequality in America. The center maintains data on food insecurity: http://www.centeronhunger.org/hunger/state.html.
Kelly D. Brownell
Professor of Psychology
Yale Center for Eating and Weight Disorders (YCEWD)
Yale University
Address:
Yale Center for Eating and Weight Disorders
P.O Box 208205
New Haven, CT 06520
Phone:
203.432.7790
E-mail:
brownell@pantheon.yale.edu
Web:
http://www.yale.edu/psychology/FacInfo/Brownell.ht...
Brownell's research currently includes a number of issues related to eating disorders, obesity, and more generally, health psychology. Projects are underway on the effects of stress and depression on eating, the effects of the "toxic environment" that encourages overeating and physical inactivity, bias, prejudice, discrimination and obesity, cognitive predispositions to eating disorders, interpersonal and cognitive-behavioral treatments for eating disorders, disordered eating and body image problems in athletes, exercise and body weight regulation, and public policy as a means of changing eating and activity in the population.
Cynthia Bulik Ph.D.
William R. and Jeanne H. Jordan Distinguished Professor of Eating Disorders
Eating Disorders Program
University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
Address:
10505 Neurosciences Hospital
Chapel Hill, NC 27514
Phone:
919.843.1689
E-mail:
cbulik@med.unc.edu
Web:
http://www.psychiatry.unc.edu/directories/bulik.ht...
Bulik is the director of the UNC Eating Disorders Program, a comprehensive treatment program for individuals with anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa and related eating disorders. Her current research focuses on genetic and environmental factors that influence risk to eating disorders.
Joan Carter
Instructor
Children's Nutrition Research Center, Department of Pediatrics
Baylor College of Medicine
Address:
1100 Bates St.
Houston, TX 77030
Phone:
713.798.6782
E-mail:
joanc@bcm.tmc.edu
Web:
http://www.kidsnutrition.org...
Joan Carter is a dietitian who teaches in the department of pediatrics at Baylor College of Medicine, where she also is director of communications for the Children’s Nutrition Research Center. She edits the center’s “Nutrition and Your Child” newsletter and is a spokeswoman for the American Dietetic Association. Previously she was the general manager and executive chef at Santa Clara University’s Adobe Lodge, and was a food service director for Marriott Management Services in San Bruno, Calif. Carter earned a bachelor’s degree in nutrition from the University of Illinois, a master’s degree in business administration from Santa Clara University, and a Cordon Bleu certificate from L’Ecole de Cuisine Francaise in England.
Angela Diaz M.D.
Jean C. and James W. Crystal Professor of Pediatrics
Director, Mount Sinai Adolescent Health Center
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Address:
320 East 94th St., Second Floor
New York, NY 10128
Phone:
212.423.2900
E-mail:
angela.diaz@msnyhealth.org
Assoc.Professor, Senior Advisor
Center for Healthier Children Families and Communities (CHCFC)
University of California, Los Angeles
Address:
1100 Glendon Avenue, Suite 850
Los Angeles, CA 90024-6946
Phone:
310.794.2583
E-mail:
hduplessis@verizon.net
Web:
http://www.healthychild.ucla.edu/dropdownmenu/staf...
Dr. DuPlessis, a pediatrician, works for the Center for Healthier Children, Families and Communities at the University of California, Los Angeles. She serves as an assistant clinical professor of pediatrics at the David Geffen School of Medicine and as an adjunct assistant professor at the School of Public Health, developing health policy for women and children. Before joining UCLA in 2002, DuPlessis was the chief medical officer of L.A. Care Health Plan, which serves the county’s Medicaid and other low-income beneficiaries. Earlier, she directed student medical services for the Los Angeles Unified School District
Paula Gardiner M.D.
Research Fellow in Medicine
Division for Research and Education in Complementary and Integrative Medical Therapies
Harvard Medical School
Address:
Landmark Building
401 Park Drive, Suite 22A-West
Boston, MA 02215
Phone:
617.384.8550
E-mail:
paula.gardiner@hms.harvard.edu
Web:
http://www.osher.hms.harvard.edu/...
Dr. Gardiner has done extensive research on alternative therapies for children with special needs. She oversees the acupuncture and stress management clinic programs at the Tufts University Family Medicine Residency. Her main interest is the safety and efficacy of herbs and dietary supplements for children and their families -– a topic on which she has been widely published and quoted. A member of the panel on dietary supplements for the US., Gardiner is currently involved in two NIH educational grants regarding complementary and alternative medicine. She is a research associate at the Center for Holistic Pediatrics Education and Research at Children’s Hospital, an adjunct professor at the Mass College of Pharmacy, and a clinical instructor in Tufts Department of Family Medicine and Community Health.
Mark Goldstein M.D.
Chief
Adolescent Medicine, Pediatrics
Massachusetts General Hospital
Address:
Adolescent Div, Yawkey 6C
55 Fruit St
Boston, MA 02114
Phone:
617.726.2730
E-mail:
mgoldstein@partners.org
Web:
http://www.mgh.harvard.edu/MGHfc/MGHfC_medspec_ado...
Dr. Goldstein is also an assistant professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Goldstein’s areas of interest include eating disorders, sexually transmitted disease, substance abuse, health insurance, gynecology and male health.
Neal Halfon M.D.
Professor, Pediatrics and Public Health; Director
Center for Healthier Children, Families and Communities
UCLA School of Public Health
Address:
1100 Glendon Ave., Suite 850
Los Angeles, CA 90095
Phone:
310.206.1898
E-mail:
nhalfon@ucla.edu
Web:
http://www.healthychild.ucla.edu/DropDownMenu/Staf...
Neal Halfon, M.D., MPH, is director of the Center for Healthier Children, Families & Communities at UCLA, UCLA’s Child and Family Health Program at the School of Public Health, and the Maternal and Child Health Bureau’s National Center for Infancy and Early Childhood Health Policy Research. In addition, Dr. Halfon is a professor of pediatrics, community health sciences, and policy studies at UCLA’s Schools of Medicine, Public Health, and Public Policy & Social Research. He led the team that developed and implemented the “2000 National Survey of Early Childhood Health,” findings of which will be published as a supplement to the journal Pediatrics this fall. Dr. Halfon serves as co-chair of the Health Services Working Group for the planned National Children’s Study, an effort being led by the National Institute for Child Health and Human Development and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; and on the Board on Children, Youth and Families of the National Research Council and Institute of Medicine. He received his medical degree from the University of California, Davis; his master’s of public health degree from the University of California, Berkeley; and completed his pediatric residency at the University of California, San Diego and the University of California, San Francisco.
David Herzog M.D.
Professor of Pediatric Psychiatry
Harvard Eating Disorders Center
Harvard Medical School
Address:
55 Fruit Street
YAW 6900
Boston, MA 02114
Phone:
617.726.8470
E-mail:
info@hedc.org
The center is an interdisciplinary community of scholars dedicated to cutting-edge research, education, and public discourse in the field of eating disorders. Dr. Herzog established the center to expand knowledge about eating disorders, their detection, treatment and prevention.
Craig Johnson Ph.D.
Founder and Director
Eating Disorders Program
Laureate Eating Psychiatric Clinic and Hospital
Address:
6655 South Yale Ave.
Tulsa, OK 74136
Phone:
918.491.5600
Web:
http://eatingdisorders.laureate.com...
Johnson is the founder and director of the eating disorders program at Laureate Psychiatric Clinic and Hospital. He is a professor of clinical psychology at the University of Tulsa, associate professor of psychiatry at the University of Oklahoma Medical School and is part president of the National Eating Disorders Association.
Francine Kaufman M.D.
Director
Comprehensive Childhood Diabetes Center
Childrens Hospital Los Angeles
Address:
4650 Sunset Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90027
Phone:
323.669.4606
E-mail:
fkaufman@chla.usc.edu
Web:
http://www.usc.edu/about/health_care/kaufman.html...
Dr. Kaufman is a pediatric endocrinologist and author of "Diabesity: The Obesity-Diabetes Epidemic That Threatens America - and What We Must Do to Stop It" (Bantam, 2005). A professor of pediatrics at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, her research focuses on many aspects of diabetes, including prevention, treatment and complications. She is chair of the NIH-funded STOPP-T2 trials, which investigate strategies to prevent and treat (the TODAY trial) type 2 diabetes in children and youth. She was also a principle investigator in the Diabetes Prevention Trial - type 1 and is now an investigator in TrialNet-the NIH study to try to prevent type 1 diabetes and preserve beta cell function.
Kathi Kemper M.D.
Professor
General Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine
Wake Forest University School of Medicine
Address:
Medical Center Boulevard
Winston-Salem, NC 27157
Phone:
336.716.1292
E-mail:
kkemper@wfubmc.edu
Web:
http://www1.wfubmc.edu/oprd/physdetail.htm?Physici...
Dr. Kemper is also a practitioner at the university’s Brenner Children’s Hospital. Dr. Kemper’s focus is on complementary and alternative medicinal practice and research, such as that regarding culture, spirituality, herbs and dietary supplements. Among Kemper’s findings is the Center for Holistic Pediatric Education and Research at Boston's Children's Hospital, the Herb and Dietary Supplement Task Force at Wake Forest University School of Medicine, and the Section for Holistic and Integrative Medicine within the American Academy of Pediatrics. Her book, The Holistic Pediatrician, serves as a key reference for families and pediatric educators and clinicians.
Jonathan Klein
Associate Professor
Pediatrics
University of Rochester Medical Center
Address:
Adolescent Medicine
601 Elmwood Avenue, Box 690
Rochester, NY 14642
Phone:
585.275.7760
E-mail:
jonathan_klein@urmc.rochester.edu
Web:
http://www.urmc.rochester.edu/gchas/s_f/KLEIN_J.HT...
Dr. Klein's research is on the organization and effectiveness of adolescent health services and on health promotion and disease prevention for children and adolescents. Klein’s ongoing studies address issues regarding adolescents such as access to health care, smoking cessation counseling, and obesity prevention.
Susan Kogut
Lecturer
Department of Kinesiology
University of Maryland
Address:
2356 Health & Human Performance Building
College Park, MD 20742
Phone:
301.405.2511
E-mail:
spkpe4life@msn.com
Jodie Levin-Epstein
Senior State Policy Analyst
Center for Law & Social Policy
Address:
1616 P St. NW, Suite.150
Washington, DC 20036
Phone:
202.328.5174 or 202.328.5
E-mail:
jodie@clasp.org
The Center for Law and Social Policy is a public interest law firm seeking to improve economic conditions of low-income families with children. Levin-Epstein focuses on welfare initiatives and provides technical assistance to policy makers and agency staff. The Spotlight on Poverty and Opportunity initiative, launched in October 2007, aims to focus attention on the poor during the 2008 presidential campaign. It features a growing cache of data, analyses and reports. Its advisory council includes: Rebecca Blank, director of the University of Michigan’s National Poverty Center; Geoffrey Canada of the Harlem Children’s Zone; Ron Haskins, co-director of the Brookings Institution’s Center on Children and Families; and William S. Cohen, former secretary of defense. Initial support comes from the Annie E. Casey and Eos foundations. http://www.spotlightonpoverty.com
Jane McGrath M.D.
State School Health Officer
Albuquerque Office of School Health
Address:
625 Silver Avenue SW, Suite 201
Albuquerque, NM 87102
Phone:
505.841.5877
E-mail:
jane.mcgrath@state.nm.us
Web:
http://www.health.state.nm.us/...
Jane McGrath, M.D., is a pediatrician with certification in adolescent medicine and an associate professor of pediatrics at the University of New Mexico. She is also the school health officer for the Albuquerque Office of School Health, where she is responsible for guiding the development of school health policy and overseeing a number of school health programs. She is a former member of the American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on School Health and past president of the National Assembly on School-Based Health Care.
Russell Pate Ph.D.
Associate Dean for Research
School of Public Health
University of South Carolina
Address:
102 Health Sciences Building
Columbia, SC 29208
Phone:
803.777.6184
E-mail:
rpate@gwm.sc.edu
Web:
http://www.sph.sc.edu/facultystaffpages/facstaffde...
Pate is an exercise physiologist with interests in physical activity and physical fitness in children and the health implications of physical activity. He has published more than 150 scholarly papers and has authored or edited five books. Pate has served in several leadership positions with the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM), and in 1993-94 served as that organization’s president. He is a past-president of the National Coalition on Promoting Physical Activity.
Greg Payne
Chair and Professor
Dept. of Kinesiology
San Jose State University
Address:
San Jose, CA 95192
Phone:
408.924.3028
E-mail:
vgpayne@hup.sjsu.edu
Web:
www.sjsu.edu/depts/casa/hup...
Payne is chair and professor of the Department of Kinesiology at San Jose State University in California. He is an expert in motor development and is a member of the State Superintendent of Public Instruction’s Task Force on Obesity, Type II Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease. He is an elected fellow of the Academy of Kinesiology and Physical Education, and has published over 100 papers and four books. His awards include the Distinguished Service Award from the California Governor’s Council on Physical Fitness and Sports; the Southwest District AAHPERD (American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance) Scholar Award, and the AAHPERD Honor Award. He is the former president of the National Association for Sports and Physical Education and the California Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance.
Joanne Pfleiderer
Director of Communications
Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.
Address:
PO Box 2393
600 Alexander Park
Princeton, NJ 08543
Phone:
609.275.2372
E-mail:
jpfleiderer@mathematica-mpr.com
Web:
http://www.mathematica-mpr.com...
Mathematica conducts public policy research and surveys on health care, education, welfare, employment, nutrition, child development, and other policy issues. The Center for Studying Health System Change (HSC) is an affiliate research organization that designs and conducts studies focused on the U.S. health care system.
Michael Rich M.D.
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Adolescent/Young Adult Medicine
Children's Hospital Boston
Address:
300 Longwood Ave.
1 Autumn-5
Boston, MA 02115
Phone:
617.355.5420
E-mail:
michael.rich@childrens.harvard.edu
Web:
http://www.childrenshospital.org/cfapps/research/d...
Dr. Rich focuses on media as a force that affects child development, health, and behavior. In 2002, he founded the Center on Media and Child Health (CMCH), which conducts research, clinical interventions and education on the effects of media on the physical, mental and social health of children and adolescents. The Society for Adolescent Medicine honored Dr. Rich in with their New Investigator Award in 1998 for the creation of Video Intervention/Prevention Assessment, a research method where child and adolescent patients make video illness narratives to show and tell their clinicians about their experience of illness. To date, VIA has been used with children and adolescents to study chronic health conditions ranging from asthma and obesity to spina bifida and HIV. (See http://www.viaproject.org).
Thomas Robinson M.D.
Associate Professor of Pediatrics and of Medicine
Stanford Prevention Research Center
Stanford University School of Medicine
Address:
1000 Welch Road
Palo Alto, CA 94304
Phone:
650.723.5331
E-mail:
tom.robinson@stanford.edu
Web:
http://prevention.stanford.edu/facultystaff/detail...
Dr. Robinson's research interests are child and adolescent obesity prevention and treatment, cardiovascular disease and cancer risk factor prevention, weight control, promotion of physical activity, nutrition, smoking prevention, effects of television viewing and video games on child health and behavior, health behavior change, school-based interventions and general pediatrics.
David Satcher M.D.
Director
National Center for Primary Care
Morehouse School of Medicine
Address:
720 Westview Drive S.W., NCPC Building, Room 301
Atlanta, GA 30310
Phone:
404.756.5740
E-mail:
mbonds@msm.edu
Web:
http://www.msm.edu/ncpc/ncpc.htm...
David Satcher, M.D., is director of the new National Center for Primary Care at the Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta. Previously he was the U.S. surgeon general and assistant secretary for health. In that position, Satcher led the department’s effort to eliminate racial and ethnic disparities in health. He also released surgeon general’s reports on tobacco and health; mental health – including children’s mental health; and overweight and obesity. From 1993 to 1998, Satcher was director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and administrator of the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry. Prior to those jobs, he was president of Meharry Medical College in Nashville, Tenn. He was also professor and chairman of the department of Community Medicine and Family Practice at Morehouse and a faculty member of the University of California – Los Angeles School of Medicine and Public Health. Satcher graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Morehouse in 1963. He received his medical and doctorate degrees from Case Western Reserve University in 1970. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Family Physicians, the American College of Preventive Medicine, and the American College of Physicians.
Al Schieder
Food Service Director
Folsom Cordova (Calif.) Unified School District
Address:
715 Riley St., Building A14
Folsom, CA 95630
Phone:
916.355.1180
E-mail:
aschiede@fcusd.k12.ca.us
Web:
http://www.fcusd.k12.ca.us/doweb/deptmains/FoodSer...
Schieder has been the food service director of the Folsom Cordova Unified School District in California since 1995. A native of Hungary, Schieder attended restaurant management school in Budapest, and learned hotel and restaurant administration in Heidelberg, Germany. He came to the United States in the 1970s and became a restaurant owner in California. Schieder now devotes his time to making healthy – and tasty – school lunches that include pizza and sushi. He has taken administrators, food directors and child nutritionists from 50 school districts around his kitchens to demonstrate his methods.
Kristine Siefert
Associate Director and Professor of Social Work
Center for Poverty, Risk and Mental Health
University of Michigan
Address:
1080 S. University, 2846 SSWB
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
Phone:
734.763.6201
E-mail:
ksiefert@umich.edu
Web:
http://www.ssw.umich.edu/faculty/profile-ksiefert....
Siefert's research investigates social and environmental risk factors for poor health and mental health among low-income women and children in diverse racial and ethnic populations. Recent studies include the impact of household food insufficiency on the physical and mental health of low income women and social and environmental determinants of major depression in low-income women.
Susan Solomon Ph.D.
Author
Address:
47 Hardy Drive
Princeton, NJ 08540
Phone:
609.937.6939
E-mail:
info@curatorialresources.com
Web:
http://www.recentamericanplaygrounds.com/...
Solomon is an expert in public playgrounds. She is the author of "American Playgrounds: Revitalizing Community Space" (University Press of New England, 1995), which examines problems with contemporary playgrounds, suggests improvements and addresses undervalued public space. She also explores American attitudes on safety and how that impacts play and places for public assembly. Trained as an art historian with a concentration on 20th-century architecture, she heads her own research firm, Curatorial Resources and Research, in Princeton, N.J.
Sunita Vohra M.D.
Director
Complementary and Alternative Research and Education Program (CARE)
Stollery Children’s Hospital, University of Alberta
Address:
4051 Research Transition Facility
8308-114 Street
Edmonton, Alberta, T6G 2E1
Phone:
780.407.2106
E-mail:
CARE@med.ualberta.ca
Web:
http://www.care.ualberta.ca/...
Vohra is a pediatrician and clinician scientist, as well as an associate professor of pediatrics at the University of Alberta . She is also the founding director of the Canadian Pediatric CAM Network (PedCAM) and program director for Canada’s first fellowship program in pediatric integrative medicine. Her expertise in complementary and alternative medicine, or CAM, has been recognized internationally with invitations to sit on various committees and editorial boards. She has published widely on the efficacy of the use of natural health product in children.
Michael Weitzman M.D.
Executive Director
Center for Child Health Research
University of Rochester
Address:
1351 Mount Hope Ave., Suite 130
Rochester, NY 14620
Phone:
585.275.1544
E-mail:
mweitzman@aap.org
Web:
http://www.urmc.rochester.edu/cchr/...
Dr. Weitzman is an authority on pediatric research and practice. He has been a practitioner, educator and researcher for more than 20 years, having served as Maternal and Child Health Director of the City of Boston and a professor and director of pediatrics at two universities; he has also trained more than three dozen active pediatric researchers. The center was created by the American Academy of Pediatrics in 1999 to improve the physical, mental and social health of children by conducting and synthesizing research across academic disciplines and institutions and using the research to inform public policies and improve medical practices.
Executive Director
National Association for Sport and Physical Education (NASPE)
Address:
1900 Association Drive
Reston, VA 20191
Phone:
703.476.3410
E-mail:
cburgeson@aahperd.org
Web:
http://www.aahperd.org/naspe/template.cfm?template...
Charlene R. Burgeson is executive director of the National Association for Sport and Physical Education (NASPE), a nonprofit membership organization of over 18,000 professionals in physical activity and fitness. NASPE is dedicated to strengthening basic knowledge about sport and physical education among professionals and the general public and putting that knowledge into action in U.S. schools and communities. From 1997-2003, Burgeson worked for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta as a health scientist in the Division of Adolescent and School Health and a public health advisor in the Division of Nutrition and Physical Activity. In 2000 she co-authored a report from the Secretaries of Health and Human Services and Education to the President of the United States titled “Promoting Better Health for Young People through Physical Activity and Sport.” She was also the lead author for the physical education chapter of the 2000 School Health Policies and Programs Survey published by CDC. In 2001, Burgeson was honored by the American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance with the Mabel Lee Award for achieving national recognition as a professional leader before reaching age 36. A former elementary physical education teacher in the Fairfax County, Va., public schools, she also coached local youth sports. Burgeson received her master’s degree in physical education from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and bachelor’s degree in health and physical education from Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania.
Halle Czechowski
Communications Vice President
Voices for America’s Children
Address:
1000 Vermont Ave., NW, Suite 700
Washington, DC 20005
Phone:
202.289.0777, Ext. 8
E-mail:
czechowski@voices.org
Web:
www.voicesforamericaschildren.org...
The nonpartisan national organization advocates for the well-being of children at the federal, state and local levels of government. It is an advocacy network with 60 members in 46 states, the District of Columbia and the Virgin Islands.
Eden Fisher Durbin
Director
Public Policy
YMCA of the USA
Address:
1701 K St., N.W., Suite 903
Washington, DC 20006
Phone:
202.835.9043
E-mail:
eden.durbin@ymca.net
Durbin is director of the public policy department of the YMCA of the USA. The department educates elected officials, the administration and key policy-makers on the five national YMCA advocacy issues: child care; youth service; youth health and fitness; substance abuse and juvenile justice; crime and gangs. The public policy department also consults with YMCAs and YMCA state alliances on state and local advocacy issues and tax issues. Durbin has worked in Washington as a child and family advocate for nearly 12 years. Prior to working with the YMCA of the USA, Durbin worked with the Child Welfare League of America. Durbin received her bachelor's degree from Kenyon College and her master’s in public administration/public policy from George Washington University.
Amy Garcia
Executive Director
National Association of School Nurses
Address:
8484 Georgia Avenue
Suite 420
Silver Spring, MD 20910
Phone:
240.821.1130
E-mail:
nasn@nasn.org
The association works to improve the health and educational success of children by advocating for school health services by professional registered school nurses. Garcia can speak to school nurse shortages and other topics.
Geraldine Henchy
Director, Early Childhood Nutrition
Food Research and Action Center
Address:
1875 Connecticut Ave., NW Suite 540
Washington, DC 20009
Phone:
202.986.2200
E-mail:
ghenchy@frac.org
Web:
www.frac.org...
The national nonprofit organization works to improve public policies and public-private partnerships to eradicate hunger and poor nutrition in the United States. FRAC collaborates with national, state and local nonprofits, public agencies and corporations to address hunger and poverty. It coordinates the Campaign to End Childhood Hunger.
Sue Hofer
Media Relations
America's Second Harvest
Address:
35 E. Wacker Drive, Floor 20
Chicago, IL 60601
Phone:
312.263.2303, Ext. 127
E-mail:
shofer@secondharvest.org
Web:
http://www.secondharvest.org/default.asp...
America's Second Harvest supports a network of more than 200 regional member food banks and food-rescue programs throughout the United States. In 2004, the network provided food assistance to more than 23 million low-income hungry people, including more than 9 million children.
Debbie Linchesky
Media Relations Manager
Public Affairs
American Academy of Pediatrics
Address:
141 Northwest Point Blvd.
Elk Grove Village, IL 60007
Phone:
847.434.4000
E-mail:
dlinchesky@aap.org
The American Academy of Pediatrics is an organization of 60,000 pediatricians committed to attaining optimal physical, mental, and social health and well-being for all infants, children, adolescents and young adults. Along with its monthly scientific and continuing education journals, Pediatrics (www.pediatrics.org) and Pediatrics in Review, the academy publishes patient education guides. Its Web site provides topical information on childhood health, on issues ranging from breast feeding to autism to obesity to disaster preparedness. It also posts policy statements, practice guidelines and other child health resources.
Wanda Miller
Executive Director
National Association of School Nurses/Eastern Office
Address:
Box 1300
Scarborough, ME 04070
Phone:
207.883.2117
E-mail:
wmiller@nasn.org
The association works to advance the delivery of professional school health services to promote optimal health and learning in students.
Alicia Moag-Stahlberg M.S.
Executive Director
Action for Healthy Kids
Address:
4711 Golf Road, Suite 806
Skokie, IL 60076
Phone:
847.329.1803
E-mail:
alicia@actionforhealthykids.org
Web:
http://www.actionforhealthykids.org...
Moag-Stahlberg is a registered dietician and an adjunct clinical instructor at Northwestern University Medical School’s Department of Preventive Medicine. She also served as director for the U.S. National Dietary Data Center/U.S. Country Nutritionist for INTERMAP, a study on diet, nutrition and blood pressure.
Lynn Parker
Director, Child Nutrition Programs and Nutritional
Food Research and Action Center (FRAC)
Address:
1875 Connecticut Ave. N.W., Suite 540
Washington, DC 20009
Phone:
202.986.2200 (main)
E-mail:
lparker@frac.org
The national nonprofit organization works to improve public policies and public-private partnerships to eradicate hunger and poor nutrition in the United States. FRAC collaborates with national, state and local nonprofits, public agencies and corporations to address hunger and poverty. It coordinates the Campaign to End Childhood Hunger.
Erik Peterson
Media Contact
School Nutrition Association
Address:
700 South Washington St.
Suite 300
Alexandria, VA 22314
Phone:
703.739.3900, Ext 124
E-mail:
epeterson@schoolnutrition.org
The association represents more than 55,000 members who provide in-school meals to students across the country. On a typical day during last school year, 28 million children participated in school lunch programs, and 8.7 million children participated in the school breakfast program.
Alvaro Simmons
Chief operating officer
Mary's Center for Maternal and Child Care
Address:
2333 Ontario Road, N.W.
Washington, DC 20009
Phone:
202.483.8196
E-mail:
ASimmons@maryscenter.org
Alvaro Simmons has served as Mary's Center's chief operating officer since early 2006. The center, established in 1988, serves families and individuals in metro Washington, D.C., who have limited or no access to health-related services. Alvaro has 18 years experience in the health care field, in addition to nearly 20 years as an educator in New York public schools and colleges. In his professional roles at various medical centers and hospitals, Alvaro has led multiple units working toward the best health care of patients in obstetrics, drug use treatment, mental health, and adolescent health units. For the past six years, Alvaro has worked in federally qualified health centers while leading the organizations to comply with FQHC regulations.
Peter Sybinsky Ph.D.
CEO
Association of Maternal and Child Health Programs
Address:
1220 19th Street, N.W., Suite 801
Washington, DC 20036
Phone:
202.775.0436
E-mail:
psybinsky@amchp.org
Web:
http://www.amchp.org/index.htm...
AMCHP represents state public health leaders and others working to improve the health and well-being of women, children, youth and families, including those with special health care needs. Collectively, its members manage public health programs that serve more than 27 million women, children and youth.
Paul Taylor
Acting Director
Pew Hispanic Center
Address:
1615 L St. NW
Suite 700
Washington, DC 20036-5610
Phone:
202.419.3600
E-mail:
info@pewhispanic.org
The nonpartisan research organization aims to improve understanding of the U.S. Hispanic population and to chronicle its growing impact on the nation. Researchers have expertise in demographics, immigration and more. Based in Washington, D.C., it’s supported by The Pew Charitable Trusts.
Carl Tubbesing
Deputy Director, D.C. headquarters
National Conference of State Legislatures
Phone:
202.624.5400
E-mail:
carl.tubbesing@ncsl.org
Web:
www.ncsl.org...
The bipartisan organization serves legislators and staffs. Its experts – on subjects from child well-being and social services to family economic success to immigration – can identify trends, and its Web site suggests story ideas.
Peggy Visio
President and Chief Consultant
Consultants in Child Nutrition and Wellness
Address:
7703 Floyd Curl Drive
San Antonio, TX 78229
Phone:
210.844.7491
E-mail:
peggy.visio@childnutritionwellness.com
Web:
www.childnutritionwellness.com...
Peggy M. Visio, M.S., R.D., L.D., is president and chief consultant of Consultants in Child Nutrition and Wellness, LLC, and an adjunct faculty member at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. She is a registered dietitian with more than 20 years of experience in nutrition research. Visio is currently working with overweight and obese children living in medically underserved areas along the U.S.-Mexico border. Her interest in obesity research has been influenced by her own lifelong struggle with obesity. Visio received a master’s degree in human nutrition from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Ellen Vollinger
Legal Director
Food Research and Action Center (FRAC)
Address:
1875 Connecticut Ave. N.W., Suite 540
Washington, DC 20009
Phone:
202.986.2200 Ext. 3016
E-mail:
evollinger@frac.org
FRAC works to improve hunger policies and conducts research to document the extent of hunger and its impact on low-income families with children. In addition to hunger trend reports, its Web site includes key state contacts for after-school and nutrition programs. http://www.frac.org/html/building_blocks/bblox_ind
ex.html
Director
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)
National Institutes of Health
Address:
Building 31, Room 2A32, MSC 2425
31 Center Drive
Bethesda, MD 20892
Phone:
301.496.5133
E-mail:
da43@nih.gov
Press Officer
Department of Health and Human Services
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
Address:
Bldg 31, Room 2A32, MSC 2425
31 Center Drive
Bethesda, MD 20892-2425
Phone:
301.496.5133
E-mail:
bockr@mail.nih.gov
Web:
http://www.nichd.nih.gov/...
NICHD, part of the National Institutes of Health, conducts and supports research on children, adults, families and specific populations. Its research touches all aspects of child health, from reproductive health to growth and development; from preventing and treating birth defects, mental retardation and developmental disabilities to improving health and rehabilitation over a lifetime. It leads the National Children’s Study, which is following 100,000 children from before birth to age 21 to examine the interaction of genes and environments.
Bill Crews
Public affairs specialist
Department of Health and Human Services
National Center for Health Statistics
Address:
3311 Toledo Road
Hyattsville, MD 20782
Phone:
301.458.4800
E-mail:
wgc1@cdc.gov
Web:
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/...
Part of the Centers for Disease Control, NCHS collects data on the number of marriages and divorces in a given year, including first marriages and remarriages, brides’ and grooms’ ages, divorces and whether children are involved.
William Dietz Ph.D.
Director, Division of Nutrition and Physical Activity
National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Address:
4770 Buford Highway N.E., MSK-24
Atlanta, GA 30341
Phone:
770.488.6042
E-mail:
wcd4@cdc.gov
Web:
http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/bb_nutrition/index.htm...
Dietz specializes in childhood obesity. A nutritionist, he is the author of over 150 publications in the scientific literature, and the editor of three books, including "Policy Tools for the Childhood Obesity Epidemic" (2002) and "The American Academy of Pediatrics Guide to Your Child’s Nutrition," (1998). He is an honorary member of the American Dietetic Association and received the Holroyd-Sherry award for his outstanding contributions to the field of children, adolescents and the media.
Katherin Galatas
Communications Officer
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Address:
1600 Clifton Road
Atlanta, GA 30333
Phone:
404.639.3286
E-mail:
katherine.galatas@cdc.hhs.gov
Web:
www.cdc.gov...
The CDC covers the spectrum of child and youth disease prevention and health issues. It provides information on birth defects; vaccination; nutrition, overweight and obesity; reproductive and sexual health; and disease outbreaks or threats. Its Web site offers state fact sheets on healthy youth (see http://www.cdc.gov/healthyyouth/profiles/facts.htm).
Shara Godiwalla
Director
Federal Agency Forum on Child and Family Statistics
Phone:
301.458.4256
E-mail:
sgodiwalla@cdc.gov
Web:
http://www.childstats.gov/topiccontacts.asp...
A collaboration of federal agencies and departments, the forum fosters coordination in collecting and reporting federal statistics on family and social environment, economic circumstances, health and health care, physical environment and safety, behavior and education. It releases an annual report, “America’s Children: Key National Indicators of Well-being,” each July. For 2007 data, see http://www.childstats.gov/americaschildren/index.asp For federal statistics on a range of issues, see www.fedstats.gov
Mary Reardon
Public Affairs Officer
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Economic Research Service
Address:
1800 M St. NW
Washington, DC 20036-5831
Phone:
202.694.5136
E-mail:
mreardon@ers.usda.gov
Web:
http://www.ers.usda.gov...
The ERS provides economic analysis on food, farming, natural resources and rural development. Its economists and social scientists conduct research, analyze food and commodity markets, produce policy studies, and develop economic and statistical indicators. Its work is in four areas: resource and rural economics; food economics; information services; and market and trade economics.
Thomas Sweeney
Public Affairs Director
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Indian Health Service
Address:
801 Thompson Ave., Ste. 400
Rockville, MD 20852-1627
Phone:
301.443.3593
E-mail:
thomas.sweeney@ihs.gov
Web:
www.ihs.gov...
HIS’ mission is to raise the physical, mental, social and spiritual health of American Indians and Alaska natives to the highest level. IHS has fact sheets on Indian populations, health disparities, diabetes, collaboration with states, and more.
