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Public Health - Grand Rounds - Turning the Tide on Obesity: Beyond Eating Less and Exercising More

Wednesday, March 13, 2013 - 4:00pm - 6:00pm
Columbia University Medical Center Alumni Auditorium 650 West 168th Street

How can we turn the tide on the dangerous and costly epidemic of obesity that threatens the health of a third of American adults and more and more people around the world? What new actions and scientific directions are needed to address this complex problem and how can we make the case for prevention as a priority? At the Mailman School's Grand Rounds presentation on March 13, Associate Professor of Epidemiology Andrew Rundle and Assistant Professor of Health Policy and Management Y. Claire! Wang will explore the obesity epidemic using the lenses of epidemiology and health policy across the lifecourse.