Our vision
We envision a society that makes it easier for people to eat healthfully and stay active so that everyone can achieve and maintain a healthy weight and enjoy the resulting health, social, economic, and environmental benefits.
Our mission
Obesity is a defining issue of our time, and The Obesity Prevention Source aims to inform and empower the public and policymakers to tackle the issue head on by covering in detail obesity’s global causes, consequences, prevention, and control, so that healthy lifestyle environmental changes can become a reality, allowing all people to achieve and maintain a healthy weight.
The Obesity Prevention Source is maintained by the Department of Nutrition at Harvard School of Public Health. The website accepts no subsidies or commercial support from any industry, and website content is reviewed by an independent editorial board.
Co-Editorial Directors
- Lilian Cheung, Lecturer, Department of Nutrition, Director of Health Promotion and Communication; Editorial Director, The Nutrition Source
- Frank Hu, Professor of Nutrition and Epidemiology
Former contributors and website staff:
- Rachel Blaine
- Vanessa Boulanger
- Rita Buckley
- Pat Cleary
- Hank Dart
- Lawrence de Koning
- Jennifer Falbe
- Sari Kalin
- Cindy Leung
- Michael Long
- Vasanti Malik
- Emily Phares
- Patrick J. Skerrett
- Tryggvi Thorgeirsson
- Vidya Viswanathan
- Nicole Wedick
- Alice Woolverton
Web Assistant
- Lu Xing
Web Interns
- Michelle Boutet
- Megan McLean
- Samantha Taylor
- Jenna Wilson
Editorial Board Members
- Kirsten Davison, Donald and Sue Pritzker Associate Professor of Nutrition
- Alison Field, Associate Professor in the Department of Epidemiology
- Steven Gortmaker, Professor of the Practice of Health Sociology
- Nancy Kane, Professor of Management
- David Ludwig, Professor in the Department of Nutrition
- Frank Sacks, Professor of Cardiovascular Disease Prevention
- K. “Vish” Viswanath, Associate Professor of Society, Human Development, and Health
- Walter Willett, Fredrick John Stare Professor of Epidemiology and Nutrition
- Jay Winsten, Associate Dean for Health Communication