IOM Obesity Prevention Workshop Slated for October 20

The Institute of Medicine’s (IOM’s) Food and Nutrition Board has announced
an October 20, 2011, public workshop in Washington, D.C., titled “Alliances for
Obesity Prevention: Finding Common Ground.” Funded by the Robert Wood
Johnson Foundation and hosted by IOM’s Standing Committee on Childhood
Obesity, the event will include discussion of ways to engender dialogue and
develop new alliances among obesity-prevention allies. Speakers will include
Susan Linn of Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood.