Seminar: Policies for the prevention of obesity In Mexico: the role of the School of Public Health.
Speaker: Juan Rivera, PhD
Director, Center for Nutrition and Health Research
Professor of Nutrition in the School of Public Health
National Institute of Public Health
Cuernavaca, Mexico
Mexico’s obesity prevalence is one of the highest in the world. The National Public Health Institute-School of Public Health of Mexico (INSP- SPHM) has supported the Mexican Government in developing evidence based obesity prevention policies. The Mexican experience in fighting obesity, the role of INSP-SPHM, the challenges and lessons learned will be discussed.
Juan Rivera is the founding director of the Center for Research in Nutrition and Health at the National Institute of Public Health in Cuernavaca, Mexico and the recipient of the ASN Kellogg International Nutrition Research Award. Nutrition has been his passion for over thirty years and spent six years in Guatemala at the Institute of Nutrition of Central America and Panama. Dr. Rivera is a professor of nutrition in the School of Public Health in Mexico, has been Chair of the International Nutrition Council of the American Society for Nutrition and Co-chair of the International Zinc Nutrition Consultative Group. He is an Adjunct professor at Cornell University and at the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University, Atlanta, and a member of the Latin American Nutrition Society, the American Society for Nutritional Sciences, and the American Society for Nutrition. He has published more than 200 scientific articles, book chapters, and books.
More information about Dr. Juan Rivera is available at:
http://www.nutrition.org/asn-blog/2009/11/interview-with-dr-juan-rivera
Sponsored by:
Department of Health Promotion Sciences, MEZCOPH
Maternal and Child Health Leadership Training Grant,
MEZCOPH Canyon Ranch Center for Health Promotion,
MEZCOPH Department of Nutritional Sciences, CALS
