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Confronting the Epidemic through Nutrition Research and Policy Thursday, June 18 to Friday, June 19, 2009
Presentation Title: Global Dynamics of Diet and Obesity Objectives:
Outcome: Participants will be able to understand the changing landscape of diet throughout the world and the role of agricultural policies in this shift as it relates to the prevalence of obesity. Accreditation: Jointly sponsored by The George Washington University and the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine. |
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Barry Popkin, Ph.D., the Carla Steel Chamblee Distinguished Professor of Global Nutrition, has a Ph.D. in economics and is professor of nutrition at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where he directs the Inter-Disciplinary Obesity Center. Dr. Popkin has an active United States research program in understanding dietary behavior, with a focus on eating patterns, trends, and sociodemographic determinants; the nutrition transition and the rapid changes in obesity; dynamic changes in diet, physical activity, and inactivity; body composition changes (and the factors responsible for these changes); consequences of these changes; and program and policy options for managing change. He is also active in a number of other National Institutes for Health (NIH)-funded studies of countries around the world including detailed longitudinal studies that he directs in China and Russia and related work in Brazil and several other countries. His United States work includes a series of NIH grants to study how socioeconomic change linked with shifts in the built environment affect diet, activity, and obesity in the ADD Health and a second 20-year long longitudinal study–CARDIA. Dr. Popkin serves on several scientific advisory organizations and is chair of the Nutrition Transition Committee for the International Union for the Nutritional Sciences. He has published more than 250 journal articles, book chapters, and books.