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Promoting work across sectors to solve obesity is a key priority for the Institute of Medicine (IOM) Roundtable on Obesity Solutions, a group that engages leadership from multiple sectors (public health, health care, government, the food industry, education, philanthropy, the nonprofit sector, and academia) to address the obesity crisis.
The Roundtable’s new video addresses the promise of innovative new collaborations to reverse the obesity epidemic in the United States.
Roundtable members discuss the importance of cross-sector work that engages sectors traditionally responsible for health promotion—such as health care providers and public health agencies—and nontraditional partners—such as city planners, members of the media, and business leaders—to work together to improve health.
Featured in the video are several Latino experts, including:
- Dr. Amelie G. Ramirez, director of the Institute for Health Promotion Research at the UT Health Science Center at San Antonio, the team behind SaludToday and Salud America!, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation-funded research network on Latino childhood obesity.
- Dr. Eduardo Sanchez, chief medical officer of the American Heart Association.
Watch the video and read the group recent report on obesity.
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Maternal & Child HealthBy The Numbers
20.7
percent
of Latino kids have obesity (compared to 11.7% of white kids)
