The 10th Biennial Childhood Obesity Conference (COC) invites individuals and organizations engaged in researching, developing, implementing and evaluating policy and environmental strategies that address root causes of childhood obesity to submit proposals for consideration for inclusion in the 10th Biennial COC program.
New this year
, all proposals will be submitted as a single presenter.
Conference Organizers will be pairing presenters together to form Traditional or Facilitated panels
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In addition, presenters can suggest other presenters/proposals they would like us to consider pairing with their proposal.
Presentations will be organized by Subthemes:
- Collaboration and Partnership
- Research and Evidenced-based Practices
- Health Equity
- Leveraging Policies for Sustainable Change
Session proposals should address achieving greater levels of health equity while addressing the social determinants of health, and should demonstrate improving outcomes for groups most affected by health disparities.
Additionally, session proposals that include the utilization of cross-sector collaboration, evidence-based community and clinical practice, innovative policy work addressing longstanding inequities, collaborations and alliances to plan, implement and evaluate their work are encouraged. Submission proposals that focus on reaching children and adolescents who suffer disproportionality from high obesity/overweight are also encouraged
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