Colorado Health Promotion Policy Institute

Colorado Health Promotion Policy Institute
March 7-8, 2003

Updated August 2003

In the Winter of 2003, the Health Promotion Program at NCSL hosted a Health Promotion Policy Institute in Colorado. The objectives of this meeting were to:

To increase state policymakers' knowledge about chronic disease prevalence and prevention.
To increase state policymakers' knowledge about risk factors related to chronic disease prevention (improving nutrition, increasing physical activity, reducing tobacco use).
To explore roles that state legislators play to develop chronic disease prevention policies and activities.
To stimulate dialogue among state policymakers, state health department staff and state and national experts about chronic disease prevention.

Following are the speaker presentations for the Colorado Health Promotion Policy Institute.

Opening Presentation

Speaker: Janis Elaine Borton, Health Promotion Program Manager, National Conference of State Legislatures

"Charting New Directions in Health Promotion Policy"

Speaker: Dr. Jim Marks, Director, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

"Coming into View: Colorado's Policies, Programs, Funding" (not available)

Speaker: Dr. Ned Calonge, Chief Medical Officer, Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

"Addressing the Obesity Epidemic One Step at a Time"

Speaker: Ms. Helen Thompson, Program and Research Liaison, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Center for Human Nutrition

"Approaching Risk Factors from Policy Perspectives"

Speaker: Dr. Margo Wootan, Director, Nutrition Policy, Center for Science in the Public Interest

"Policies to Reduce Tobacco Use: A Review of the Evidence"

Speaker: Mr. Dearell Niemeyer, Executive Director, Tobacco Technical Assistance Consortium

State Team Action Plan Summary

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Colorado Health Promotion Policy Institute March 7-8, 2003

State Team Action Plan Summary

Colorado Health Promotion Policy Institute
March 7-8, 2003