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Workgroup Information Health Promotion & Disease Prevention
Summary	General topics covered include: food consumption patterns in different ethnic and socio-economic groups; appropriate education and other community interventions that modify lifestyle factors; food patterns related to diabetes and other chronic disease; health beliefs and attitudes related to diabetes and other chronic disease; and development of curriculum and programs for specific categories of at-risk populations that will promote behavior change for diabetes and chronic-disease prevention.
Workgroup Chair Information
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Membership List
AES Scientist
Steinberg, Francene M.		Nutrition
	Associate Professor	Nutrition - Health and biologic effects of bioactive food components, especially soy foods; health promotion and chronic disease risk reduction through nutrition education and lifestyle modification, especially prevention of cardiovascular disease, diabet
CE Advisor
Barrett, Gloria		Sacramento County
	County Director   Community Development   Public Policy Advisor	Community, Economic, and Workforce Development, Health Promotion, Aging Issues
Blackburn, Mary		Alameda County Cooperative Extension
	Family and Consumer Sciences, Health & Nutrition Advisor	Family and consumer sciences, EFNEP and FSNEP
Collins, Margaret		Mariposa County
	Nutrition Family & Consumer Science Advisor
(info only) Donohue, Susan		Butte County
	Nutrition, Family & Consumer Sciences Advisor, Emeritus	Nutrition, Family & Consumer Sciences, Food Safety
Horowitz, Marcel		Capitol Corridor MCP Cooperative Extension
	Community Nutrition and Health Advisor	Youth Health Education
Martin, Anna		San Joaquin County
	Nutrition   Family   Consumer Sciences Advisor	Community Nutrition Education
Metz, Diane		Capitol Corridor MCP Cooperative Extension
	Emeritus Nutrition, Family and Consumer Science Advisor, Yolo and Solano Counties	Administration, human nutrition general, childhood obesity and health promotion, food security, food safety and home Food Preservation, Human and Family Relationships and Consumer Science. Also, Community Development and Leader Development.
Neelon, Marisa		Community Nutrition and Health
	Community Nutrition and Health Advisor, Emeritus	Food security and the prevention of childhood obesity and chronic disease in populations with low-income.
Smith, Dorothy		Tuolumne County
	Nutrition Family and Consumer Science Advisor El Dorado/Amador /Calaveras /Tuolumne Counties	Nutrition
(info only) Wooten Swanson, Patti		San Diego County
	Nutrition,  Family, and  Consumer Science Advisor - Emeritus	Family Resource Management, Nutrition and Health, Food Safety, Adult Education
CE Specialist
(info only) Bruhn, Christine		Food Science & Technology
	CE Food Marketing Specialist Emerita   Center for Consumer Research	Research and education focused on consumer attitudes toward food safety, quality, and wholesomeness, food labels, and new production and processing technologies
Crawford, Patricia		Nutrition Policy Institute
	Cooperative Extension Nutrition Specialist	Prevention of childhood obesity. Studies on how environmental, family and clinical approaches address childhood obesity.
Kaiser, Lucia		Nutrition
	CE Nutrition Specialist	Acculturation and dietary changes; ethnic food habits (particularly Latino); child feeding practices; evaluation of nutrition education
Ritchie, Lorrene		Nutrition Policy Institute (NPI)
	Director of the Nutrition Policy Institute and Cooperative Extension Nutrition Specialist	Childhood, Food Security, Obesity Prevention, Public health
Other ANR
McMurdo, Tammy		CalFresh Healthy Living, UC
	Community Nutrition Education Specialist 4	Community nutrition education, chronic disease prevention and awareness, maternal and child health
Non-UC
Lexion, Constance
	Family and Consumer Science Advisor
Selph, Natalie		American Diabetes Association
	Associate manager	Community outreach
Other UC
(info only) Van Loan, Marta		Western Human Nutrition Research Center
	Assoc Adj Professor	Human Nutrition
Young, Tara		Dept of Nutrition
	Graduate student	Nutrition, program evaluation
Membership Totals
Number of Members		20
ANR Members		18
Non-ANR		2
Info Only		4