Keeping Kids Moving, How Equitable Transportation Policy Can Prevent Childhood Obesity

Hosted at the National Press Club on July 15th, 2010, the roundtable explored the vital connections between transportation policy and childhood obesity, especially for low-income children and children of color.

Part one of the webcast includes opening remarks by Dwayne Proctor and James Corless followed by Solving the Problem within a Generation: A Conversation with Senior Federal Officials with Martha Coven, Dr. Howard Koh, Roy Kienitz, and Angela Glover Blackwell (view bios)

Part two includes Lifting Up What Works: Local Innovations to Address the Childhood Obesity Crisis with Chip Johnson, Julia Lopez, Adetokunbo "Toks" Omishakin, Barbara Stiffarm, and Joe Thompson (view bios)

Event Agenda^(PDF)

Fact Sheet ^(PDF)

Press Release ^(PDF)

Photos ^(Facebook)

Speakers | View Full Bios^(PDF)

Angela Glover Blackwell

Founder and Chief Executive Officer of PolicyLink

Principal Advisor and Chair of the National Advisory Board for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Center to Prevent Childhood Obesity

James Corless

Director of Transportation for America

Martha Coven

Special Assistant to the President, Domestic Policy Council

Radhika K. Fox

Federal Policy Director, PolicyLink

Mayor Chip Johnson Chip Johnson

Mayor of the City of Hernando, Mississippi

Laura Kettel Khan

Senior Scientist, Policy and Partnerships, Office of the Director in the Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Roy Kienitz

Under Secretary for Policy, U.S. Department of Transportation

Dr. Howard K. Koh

Assistant Secretary for Health for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)

Adetokunbo “Toks” Omishakin

Director of Healthy Living Initiatives, Office of the Mayor, Nashville, TN

Julia Lopez

Central California Regional Obesity Prevention Program

The Statewide Youth Board on Obesity Prevention

Dwayne Proctor, Ph.D.

Director of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Childhood Obesity Team

Barbara Stiffarm

Executive Director, Opportunity Link

Joe Thompson

Director of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Center to Prevent Childhood Obesity

Director of Arkansas Center for Health Improvement (ACHI)

Surgeon General for the State of Arkansas.

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Keeping Kids Moving

Hosted at the National Press Club on July 15th, 2010, the roundtable explored the vital connections between transportation policy and childhood obesity, especially for low-income children and children of color.

Part one of the webcast includes opening remarks by Dwayne Proctor and James Corless followed by Solving the Problem within a Generation: A Conversation with Senior Federal Officials with Martha Coven, Dr. Howard Koh, Roy Kienitz, and Angela Glover Blackwell (view bios)

Part two includes Lifting Up What Works: Local Innovations to Address the Childhood Obesity Crisis with Chip Johnson, Julia Lopez, Adetokunbo "Toks" Omishakin, Barbara Stiffarm, and Joe Thompson (view bios)

Event Agenda^(PDF)

Fact Sheet ^(PDF)

Press Release ^(PDF)

Photos ^(Facebook)

Speakers | View Full Bios^(PDF)

Email Alerts

Primary links

Keeping Kids Moving

Hosted at the National Press Club on July 15th, 2010, the roundtable explored the vital connections between transportation policy and childhood obesity, especially for low-income children and children of color.

Part one of the webcast includes opening remarks by Dwayne Proctor and James Corless followed by Solving the Problem within a Generation: A Conversation with Senior Federal Officials with Martha Coven, Dr. Howard Koh, Roy Kienitz, and Angela Glover Blackwell (view bios)

Part two includes Lifting Up What Works: Local Innovations to Address the Childhood Obesity Crisis with Chip Johnson, Julia Lopez, Adetokunbo "Toks" Omishakin, Barbara Stiffarm, and Joe Thompson (view bios)

Event Agenda(PDF)

Fact Sheet (PDF)

Press Release (PDF)

Photos (Facebook)

Speakers | View Full Bios(PDF)

Email Alerts

Event Agenda^(PDF)

Fact Sheet ^(PDF)

Press Release ^(PDF)

Photos ^(Facebook)

Speakers | View Full Bios^(PDF)