Predicting the future impact of childhood obesity

Doctoral student, Zach Ward, discusses the results of a new study from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health on predicting the future impact of childhood obesity.

The paper discussed in the video (Ward Z, Long M, Resch S, Giles C, Cradock A, Gortmaker S. Simulation of Growth Trajectories of Childhood Obesity into Adulthood. N Engl J Med. 2017 Nov 30;377(22):2145-2153) is available here: www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1703860

A resource pack on childhood obesity, curated by the Center for Health Decision Science to showcase existing cost-effectiveness analyses and motivate students, educators and others to pursue new applications of decision science methods to the public health challenge of obesity is available at: chds.us.aldryn.io/repository/collection/30/