Resources

• 04/21/2020 - 13:41

Obesity may be a risk factor in deaths caused by COVID-19, concludes a new analysis published in the journal Obesity by GW Milken Institute School of Public Health experts.

Carlos Santos-Burgoa, MD, MPH, PhD, a professor of global health; and William Dietz, MD, PhD, chair of the Sumner M. Redstone Global Center for Prevention and Wellness, looked at previous research on the H₁N₁ influenza pandemic as well as reports coming in from Italy and China and concluded that obesity is likely a pre-existing disease that can make COVID-19 worse.

• 04/21/2020 - 12:23

Five years ago, the Building Community Resilience initiative (part of the Redstone Global Center at the Milken Institute School of Public Health) was started to help address one of the most sweeping public health challenges of our times: Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs). ACEs are recognized in clinical, educational and social service settings as having negative outcomes and impacting a person’s wellbeing and health throughout their life.

• 03/30/2020 - 13:24

On March 24, 2020, the Redstone Global Center for Prevention and Wellness submitted comments to the U.S. Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service in response to the proposal: "Simplifying Meal Service and Monitoring Requirements in the National Lunch and School Breakfast Program." The Center strongly opposes the proposed rule because it would result in students being served less nutritious, higher calorie foods, and likely cause increases in childhood obesity and other poor health outcomes.

• 03/05/2020 - 14:11

This month, in conjunction with Obesity Care Week in the U.S. and World Obesity Day, the Redstone Global Center for Prevention and Wellness joined leading experts, clinicians and advocates from across the world in a new consensus statement for eliminating weight bias and stigma of obesity.

• 03/04/2020 - 11:55

On February 26, the Building Community Resilience Collaborative and Network, a project of the Redstone Global Center, released their latest resource for the field – a new Fostering Equity tool kit and guide. Over the last five years, networks of BCR partners across the country have been working together to build community resilience by addressing and mitigating the Pair of ACEs. This guide is an outgrowth of the experiences of these communities as our work together has emphasized the importance of centering equity at the heart of what it means to be resilient.