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About  Healthy Kids, Healthy Future

Welcome to Healthy Kids, Healthy Future, a Nemours website providing resources and materials regarding health promotion and obesity prevention in early care and education.

Partners:

• Nemours
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
• Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Center to Prevent Childhood Obesity
• Maternal and Child Health Bureau of the Health Resources and Services Administration
• With support from the Altarum Institute

Planning committee:

• Sara Benjamin, MPH, PhD
  Harvard Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention
  
• Debbie I. Chang, MPH
  Nemours
  
• Kumar Chandran, MPH, MS
  California Food Policy Advocates
  
• Anne De Biasi, MHA
  Nemours
  
• William Dietz, MD, MPH
  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, HHS
  
• Beth Dixon, MD, MPH
  New York University
  
• Jonathan Finkelstein, MD, MPH
  Harvard Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention
  
• Geraldine Henchy, MPH, RD
  Food Research and Action Center
  
• Barbara Polhamus, MD, MPH
  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, HHS
  
• Tonya Russell
  Arkansas Department of Human Services
  
• Denise Sofka, MPH, RD
  Maternal and Child Health Bureau, HRSA, HHS
  
• Phyllis Stubbs-Winn, MD
  Maternal and Child Health Bureau, HRSA, HHS
  
• Joseph Thompson, MD, MPH
  Arkansas Center for Health Improvement
  
• Mary Story, PhD, RD
  University of Minnesota Obesity Prevention Program

Contact information:

• For Media: Please contact Karen Bengston with media inquiries at 302-444-9108 or kbengsto@nemours.org.
• General Questions: Please contact Anne DeBiasi at adebiasi@nemours.org.

Photo Credits:

All blog photos courtesy of Jay Mallin.