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Workgroup Information Health Promotion & Disease Prevention
Summary	General topics covered include: food consumption patterns in different ethnic and socio-economic groups; appropriate education and other community interventions that modify lifestyle factors; food patterns related to diabetes and other chronic disease; health beliefs and attitudes related to diabetes and other chronic disease; and development of curriculum and programs for specific categories of at-risk populations that will promote behavior change for diabetes and chronic-disease prevention.
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Membership List
AES Scientist
Blackburn, Mary		Alameda County
	Family   Consumer Sciences   Health & Nutrition Advisor	Family and consumer sciences, EFNEP and FSNEP
Steinberg, Francene M.		Nutrition
	Associate Professor	Nutrition - Health and biologic effects of bioactive food components, especially soy foods; health promotion and chronic disease risk reduction through nutrition education and lifestyle modification, especially prevention of cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and women's menopausal health concerns.
CE Advisor
Barrett, Gloria		Sacramento County
	County Director   Community Development   Public Policy Advisor	Community, Economic, and Workforce Development, Health Promotion, Aging Issues
Collins, Margaret		Mariposa County
	Nutrition Family & Consumer Science Advisor
(info only) Donohue, Susan		Butte County
	County Director	Nutrition, Family & Consumer Sciences, Food Safety
Horowitz, Marcel		Yolo County
	Youth Development, Nutrition, Family and Consumer Science Advisor	UC Nutrition Education Program
Martin, Anna		San Joaquin County
	Nutrition   Family   Consumer Science Advisor	Community Nutrition Education
Metz, Diane		Yolo County
	Emeritus Nutrition, Family and Consumer Science Advisor, Yolo and Solano Counties	Administration, human nutrition general, childhood obesity and health promotion, food security, food safety and home Food Preservation, Human and Family Relationships and Consumer Science. Also, Community Development and Leader Development.
Neelon, Marisa		Contra Costa County
	Nutrition, Family & Consumer Sciences Advisor
Smith, Dorothy		Calaveras County
	County Director Nutrition Family and Consumer Science Advisor Amador /Calaveras /Tuolumne Counties	Nutrition
(info only) Wooten Swanson, Patti		San Diego County
	Nutrition,  Family, and  Consumer Science Advisor	Family Resource Management, Nutrition and Health, Food Safety, Adult Education
CE Specialist
(info only) Bruhn, Christine		Food Science & Technology
	Director   CE Food Marketing Specialist   Center for Consumer Research	Research and education focused on consumer attitudes toward food safety, quality, and wholesomeness, food labels, and new production and processing technologies
Kaiser, Lucia		Nutrition
	CE Nutrition Specialist	Acculturation and dietary changes; ethnic food habits (particularly Latino); child feeding practices; evaluation of nutrition education
Other ANR
McMurdo, Tammy		Expanded Food Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP)
	Nutrition Program Representative III	Community nutrition education; Chronic disease prevention and awareness
Non-UC
Lexion, Constance
	Family and Consumer Science Advisor
Selph, Natalie		American Diabetes Association
	Associate manager	Community outreach
Other UC
(info only) Van Loan, Marta		Western Human Nutrition Research Center
	Assoc Adj Professor	Human Nutrition
Young, Tara		Dept of Nutrition
	Graduate student	Nutrition, program evaluation
Membership Totals
Number of Members		18
ANR Members		16
Non-ANR		2
Info Only		4