Session & Date |
Topic |
Faculty |
Objectives/Milestones |
Readings & Assignments [ ] = recommended |
1.
Jan 22 |
The Many Faces of Fat: The Obesity Epidemic: Local, National and Global Perspectives
Course overview – Student projects, definitions |
Sonia Suchday, PhD
Judith Wylie-Rosett, EdD, RD |
Introduction to Course Project
-Review NEMS-S and NYC DOHMH market survey reports and tools
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CDC: Social-Ecological Model
http://0-www.cdc.gov.pugwash.lib.warwick.ac.uk
/nccdphp/dnpa/obesity/state_programs/se_model.htm
PHANYC monograph: Reversing the Diabetes and Obesity Epidemics in NYC
F as in Fat: How obesity policies are failing in America 2007. Executive Summary, & pp. 1-17, 41-45
Diabetes: Diabetes in NYC-Public Health Burden and Disparities
NYC Vital Signs (2 documents)
[http://www.nyc.gov/html/doh/html/pr/pr115-05.shtml]
[http://www.nyc.gov/html/doh/html/cdp/cdp-obesity.shtml]
[http://www.nyc.gov/html/doh/downloads/pdf/epi/diabetes _chart_book.pdf]
-become familiar with survey instruments
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2.
Jan 29 |
I am not hungry I’ll just pick: Public health behavioral and biological determinants of health |
Charles Swencionis, PhD
Philip M Alberti, PhD, NYCDOH
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Identify markets and communities-geo-coding/mapping
-type of supermarkets, bodegas, grocery stores
-location: define geography
-mark up 2 survey instruments
-identify what items are missing in instruments (eg: fresh vs. frozen vegetables), add/omit items |
Taubes, Chapters to be assigned
Glanz et al., 2007, Nutrition Environment Measures Survey in Stores (NEMS-S)
NEMS-S Appendix
Eating Well in Harlem
Retail Food Assessment: Harlem DPHO Version
& Cornell Version of Retail Food Assessment
- continue marking up survey instruments and identifying missing items
- create pilot instrument next session
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3.
Feb 5 |
The Zen of Fat: Socio-ecological and other behavioral frameworks to address obesity research |
Sonia Suchday, PhD
Arthur Blank, PhD
Judith Wylie-Rosett, EdD, RD |
Create pilot survey instrument (modified from NEMS-S and/or NYCDOHMH)
-time
-feasibility
-validity
-inter-rater reliability
-estimate time required for each market |
Theory at a Glance: A Guide for Health Promotion Practice. US Dept of Health & Human Services
Chapters to be assigned.
Horowitz, et al., 2004. Barriers to buying healthy foods for people with diabetes: evidence of environmental disparities.
NYC Health, Obesity in the South Bronx: A look across generations
Other Readings to be Assigned
-use survey instrument in one market and bring summary of results (data collection process, survey results)
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4.
Feb 12 |
Does this dress make me look fat?: Assessing obesity in community settings (Consideration of community based participatory as well as biostatistical and epidemiological methods) |
Rosy Chhabra, PsyD
Sonia Suchday, PhD
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Report results of pilot markets surveyed
-finalize survey instrument to use on sample of |
Prepared for: US Dept of Health and Human Services. Community-based Participatory Research: Assessing the evidence
Other Readings to be Assigned
Community-Campus Partnerships for Health (CCPH):
http://depts.washington.edu/ccph/principles.html
-begin conducting surveys of markets with finalized survey instrument
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5.
Feb 19 |
Perspectives on Beauty: The Swimsuit Edition
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Yasmin Mossavar-Rahmani, PhD, RD |
Discuss pilot database and data-entry program
-adding to or deleting from an existing database and/or auxiliary database [this will be determined before the session]
- Implicit bias Test |
Mossavar-Rahmani et al., 1996. Determinants of body size perceptions and dieting behavior in a multiethnic group of hospital staff women.
Readings on Implicit Bias to be assigned
-continue market surveys and begin data entry
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6.
Feb 26 |
The cost of fat?: Economic, medical and social aspects of the obesity epidemic |
Antronette Yancey, MD, MPH
Jonathan N Tobin, PhD |
Report on data collection
-discuss data entry
-discuss quality control for upcoming sessions |
Yancey et al., 2007. Bridging the gap.
Sloane et al, 2003. Improving the nutritional resource environment for healthy living through community-based participatory research.
-continue market surveys, data entry
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7.
Mar 4 |
Bloated bellies changing the face of malnutrition: Obesity disparities at home and worldwide |
Su-Jong Kim, PhD
Jonathan N Tobin, PhD
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Draft interview schedule for market managers/owners and discuss interview questions (Qualitative Analyses)
-sampling strategy
-target both small and large markets
-Who makes purchasing decisions? How is freezer space allotted in markets? Logistical issues? Etc. |
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan: Ch 1-2
Bjorntorp, 2001. Do stress reactions cause abdominal obesity and comorbidities? Obesity Reviews, 2, 73-86.
Bjorntorp & Rosmond, 1999. Visceral obesity and diabetes. Drugs, 58, S1, 13-18.
[Bjorntprp, Rosmond, 2000. Obesity and cortisol. Nutrition, 16, 924-936.]
Deurenberg et al, 1998. Body mass index and precent body fat: a meta analysis among different ethnic groups. International Journal of Obesity, 22, 1164-1171.
[Sandoval & Davis, 2003. Leptin metabolic control and regulation, Journal of Diabetes and its Complications, 17, 108-113]
Warne & Dallman, 2007. Stress, diet and abdominal obesity: Y?. Nature Medicine, 13, 781-783.
Additional readings to be assigned
-continue market surveys, data entry
-begin creating interview questions
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8.
Mar 11 |
You are what you eat, or are you?: Evaluation methods for obesity interventions and research studies |
Alice Fornari, EdD
Judith Wylie-Rosett, EdD, RD |
Develop skeleton analysis tables
-continue working on issues from session 7 |
Isasi, Davis & Wylie-Rosett, Assessment of Communities. in Understanding Obesity: Biological, Psychological and Cultural Influences.
Wylie-Rosett, & Hark, Nutrition assessment for cardiovascular disease (Chapter 4) in Cardiovascular Nutrition: Disease Management and Prevention, ADA.
-continue market surveys, data entry, interview questions
-begin conducting interviews
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9.
Mar 18
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Selling them our garbage: Examination of international trade policy and obesity
Book club discussion: The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan
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Judith Wylie-Rosett, EdD, RD
Jonathan N Tobin, PhD
|
Report on interviews
-students present results of qualitative data from interviews |
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan
Chapter 3, 4, & 5
-continue market surveys, data entry, interviews
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10.
Mar 25 |
Sue Who? Litigation and obesity |
Leslie Gerwin, JD, MPH
Jonathan N Tobin, PhD
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Report on interviews
-students present results of qualitative data from interviews |
Wing, Mariner, Annas, Strouse, Public Health Law (LexisNexis, 2007): pp. 558-581 & 600-610
Mello et al, 2006. Obesity-the new frontier of public health law.
-continue market surveys, data entry, interviews
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11.
Apr 1 |
Do as I say not as I do: What is the Evidence Base used for Recommendations related to Obesity? (government, health agency, and international agencies)
Discussion of NYC regulations for calorie labeling and transfats elimination
|
Rachel Johnson, PhD, MPH, RD
Judith Wylie-Rosett, EdD, RD
Jonathan N Tobin, PhD
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Report on interviews
-students present results of qualitative data from interviews |
PAPER DUE
Cochrane
NHLBI Obesity Evidence Initiatives (OBEI): Executive summary
http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/guidelines/obesity/ob_gdlns.pdf
-continue market surveys, data entry, interviews
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12.
Apr 8 |
What’s the government doing? Obesity-related Intervention research in USDA programs
|
Karen Bonuck, PhD
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Preliminary analysis
-in-class hands-on analysis of data |
www.usda.gov
-finish market surveys, data entry, conducting interviews
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Apr 15
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No Class |
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Apr 22
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No Class |
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13.
Apr 29 |
Don’t look the other way: The Clinician’s Perspective (Clinical skills; reimbursements)
Perspectives of physician, psychologist, and dietician |
Charles Swencionis, PhD
Darwin Deen Jr, MD, MS
Judith Wylie-Rosett, EdD, RD |
Integration of qualitative and quantitative data; Feedback to markets
-discuss how to integrate different types of data
-discuss how to provide feedback to markets concerning what products to add to their markets, how to better display items of interest, etc.
- BMI calculations |
AAMC Monograph
Report VIII: Contemporary issues in medicine: The prevention and treatment of overweight and obesity. Aug 2007
F as in Fat: How obesity policies are failing in America 2007”: pp. 74-84: pp. 37-39
Wylie-Rosett et al, 2006. Lifestyle intervention to prevent diabetes: intensive and cost effective.
-provide feedback to markets
-finish data analysis
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14.
May 6 |
Let’s work together: Intervention Research - collaborative strategies for addressing environment at community and global level (changing personal and family environments, consideration of social networks)
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Tracy Sbrocco, PhD
Judith Wylie-Rosett, EdD, RD |
Report preliminary results
-show preliminary results in skeleton tables created in session 8 |
F as in Fat: How obesity policies are failing in America 2007. pp. 17-36, 96-103
-continue data analysis
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