Building Capacity for Obesity Prevention (BCOP) is a collaborative study between researchers at the Prevention Research Center for Healthy Neighborhoods (PRCHN) and public health and community practitioners working with the SNAP-Ed program at The Ohio State University (OSU) and the Creating Healthy Communities program at Ohio Department of Health.
Researchers from PRCHN and the OSU SNAP-Ed program will jointly present "Lessons Learned from a Statewide Collaboration to Build Capacity for Obesity Prevention" at the next PRCHN Seminar March 14 from noon to 1:15 p.m. the BioEnterprise ground-floor conference room.
About the talk
The primary goal of the BCOP study is to develop web-based assessment tools of community readiness and capacity to optimize implementation of four nutrition-related policy, system and environmental interventions:- Farmers’ markets;
- Healthy eating policies in childcare settings;
- Healthy food retail; and
- Farm to school.
- Darcy Freedman, PRCHN associate director and BCOP principal investigator;
- Ana Claudia Zubieta, Ohio SNAP-Ed director in the Department of Human Sciences at The Ohio State University Extension;
- Eunlye Lee, researcher associate at PRCHN; and
- David Ngendahimana, a pre-doctoral fellow, at PRCHN and PhD candidate in the Department of Population Health and Quantitative Sciences at CWRU.
