Dr. Sharkey to serve on expert working group on childhood obesity prevention

Joseph R. Sharkey, Ph.D., M.P.H., R.D., professor and founding director of the Program for Research in Nutrition and Health Disparities at the Texas A&M Health Science Center School of Rural Public Health, will serve on an expert working group for the Colorado Health Foundation on March 5-7 in Denver. Dr. Sharkey will join seven other invited panel members to assist the Colorado Health Foundation in discussing issues and beginning to develop recommendations to prevent childhood obesity.