Preventive
Medicine Institute/Strang Cancer Prevention Center is dedicated
to cancer research and prevention. Obesity, long known to be a risk
factor for cardiovascular disease and diabetes, is now documented as
a major risk factor for certain cancers, especially among underserved
populations.
Strang recognizes the need to address the high
obesity rates and lack of physical activity among our nation's children,
particularly those in urban areas. Strang is working to address the barriers
that must be overcome to help families improve the nutrition and fitness
habits of children.
Our goal is to promote a replicable nationwide
program, Healthy Children Healthy Futures, for children and parents to
become advocates — through their schools, families and communities — for
healthy eating and increased physical activity.
Strang and MetLife Foundation have joined forces
and are currently implementing the Healthy Children Healthy Futures program,
intended for underserved young people, ages 9-13, in several of our country's
larger urban areas — Atlanta, Los Angeles, New York, Baltimore,
Chicago, Houston, and Dallas.
Our program partners have included:
Mentoring USA (New
York)
www.mentoringusa.org
After-School All-Stars (The
Arnold Schwarzenegger Youth Foundation)
LA, New York and Atlanta
www.afterschoolallstars.org
LA’s
Best After-School Enrichment Program
www.lasbest.org
TASC (New York)
www.tascorp.org
100 Black Men of North Metro,
Inc. (Atlanta)
www.northmetro100.org
Georgia State PTA (Atlanta)
www.georgiapta.org
The New York City Department of Education
schools.nyc.gov
The After-School Institute (Baltimore)
www.afterschoolinstitute.org
Cooperative After School Enrichment (Houston)
www.hcde-texas.org
Chicago Public School/After-School
All-Stars
www.cpsafterschool.org
Community Council of Greater
Dallas (GCGD)
www.ccgd.org
The first school to pilot Healthy Children Healthy
Futures was PS 240 in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
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BJ Carter
Strang Cancer Prevention Center
Child
Health Initiative
Advisory
Board
Chairperson
Matilda Raffa Cuomo,
Founder and Chairperson
Mentoring USA
Board Members
Dorothy Adams, President
Capital Value
Heidi Arthur,
Senior Vice President
Group Campaign Manager
The Advertising Council, Inc.
Gloria Cahill, Director of
Community Service
New York University
Angelica Cantlon, Senior
Vice President of International Strategy and New Business Development
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company
Bruce Charash, MD,
Assistant Professor of Clinical
Medicine
Columbia University
Alwyn Cohall,
MD, Director,
Harlem Health Promotion
Center
and Project STAY
Mailman School of Public Health
Columbia University
Thom Gatewood, Former
Member NY Giants, President
Blue Atlas Productions
Leslie Goldman, Director,
Office of School Health
Programs
NY Academy of Medicine
Freddi Greenberg, Editor-In-Chief
Nick Jr. Magazine
Keith Hernandez, Former
Member of New York Mets
Gerald M. Loughlin, Professor
and Chairman
Department
of Pediatrics
Weill Medical College of Cornell University
Avrum L. Katcher, MD FAAP American
Academy of Pediatrics
Chairperson for Senior Members
Michael P. Osborne, MD President
Strang Cancer
Prevention Center
Clarence Pearson,
Senior Advisor
World Health Organization at The United Nations
Paula Veale, Executive
VP, Corporate
Communications
The Advertising Council, Inc.
Diane Whitty,
Senior Advisor to the President
The Partnership for a Drug Free America
Christine L. Williams, MD, MPH Director,
Children’s
Cardiovascular Health Center
Professor of Clinical Pediatrics
Children’s Hospital of New York
Presbyterian
Karen Wish,
Director
Children’s Health Marketing
Children’s Hospital of New York
Presbyterian
Special Advisors to the Board
Woodie
Kessel, MD
Former Assistant Surgeon General
Deputy Director for Medical and Health
Science
Senior Child Health Science Advisor
U.S. Department of Health and Human
Services
Howell Wechsler, Ed.D., MPH
Director
Division of Adolescent and School Health,
National Center for Chronic
Disease Prevention
and Health Promotion
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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