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Confronting the Epidemic through Nutrition Research and Policy Thursday, June 18 to Friday, June 19, 2009
Presentation Title: The Fattening of America: How the Economy Makes Us Fat, If It Matters, and What to Do About It Objectives:
Outcome: Participants will be able to describe the economic impact of obesity and appropriate intervention for prevention by the government. Accreditation: Jointly sponsored by The George Washington University and the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine. |
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Eric Finkelstein, Ph.D., is a health economist and director of RTI’s Public Health Economics Program. Before joining RTI, he was an Agency for Health Care Policy and Research fellow and research scientist with the University of Washington’s department of family medicine. He currently conducts economic and health policy research at RTI and focuses on the economic causes and consequences of health behaviors, with a primary emphasis on behaviors related to obesity and injuries. Dr. Finkelstein recently completed a text entitled The Fattening of America: How the Economy Makes Us Fat, If It Matters, and What To Do About It. He is co-principal investigator and associate director for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention-funded RTI-UNC Center of Excellence in Health Promotion Economics, and he currently leads several multiyear projects to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of select interventions aimed at reducing rates of obesity and/or injuries. He frequently speaks at conferences about the economic impact of obesity and strategies for reducing this burden.