Weight of the Nation: What Can Health Professionals Do to Help Turn Communities Around?

Dinner served: 6:00 p.m.

Screening: 6:30 p.m. Panel discussion immediately following screening



Free for all students, staff, faculty, and community partners. Please Register.

Join us as we screen Challenges, part four in a series. This final film of the HBO series examines the origins and severity of the obesity epidemic, its major driving forces including the Farm Bill as well as the opportunities for communities to fight back.



A moderated discussion about what the Twin Cities and Minnesota can do and are doing at the community and policy level to combat obesity and create healthier food systems will immediately follow the 65-minute screening.

Panelists Include:

• Hli Xyooj, Farmers Legal Action Group
• Mustafa Sundiata, U of M Extension and Minneapolis Food Policy Council
• Shirlynn LaChappelle, RN, Minnesota Black Nurses Association
• David Wallinga, MD, M.P.A Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP)
• Mary Story, PhD, RD University of Minnesota School of Public Health

Registration Information

Register for this event here. If you have any questions, please contact chip@umn.edu or call (612) 625-1113.

Partnering organizations

The Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP)

U of M Center for Health Interprofessional Programs (CHIP)

CHIP Executive Council

University of Minnesota CLARION, The School of Public Health

THE WEIGHT OF THE NATION is a presentation of HBO and the Institute of Medicine, in association with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Institutes of Health, and in partnership with the Michael & Susan Dell Foundation and Kaiser. 

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