Center Seminar Series – Steve Gortmaker

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Translating Research for Policy and Practice: the CHOICES Project and Implications for Happiness

Wednesday, September 26, 2018, 1-1:50pm

Steve Gortmaker PhD is Professor of the Practice of Health Sociology at the Harvard Chan School of Public Health. He directs the Harvard Chan School of Public Health Prevention Research Center. The center works with communities, state and local governments, and other partners to develop, implement, and evaluate the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of strategies to reduce obesity and chronic disease risk among children, youth, and their families and to translate and disseminate this work broadly. Current work includes the CHOICES project that is evaluating the cost effectiveness, population reach and impact of more than 40 childhood obesity preventive strategies, and working with 11 different city and state health departments and stakeholder groups.

Professor Gortmaker’s talk considered how cost-effectiveness models of interventions in obesity prevention can serve as a model for translation to inform policies designed to improve well-being.