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Dr. Shiriki Kumanyika July 2007 Calendar

Dr. Shiriki Kumanyika is professor of epidemiology, and associate dean for promotion and disease prevention at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.

Dr. Kumanyika also serves as the Founding Director of the University of Pennsylvania's graduate program in public health studies, as professor of epidemiology in the department of pediatrics-nutrition section at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, senior scholar in the Center for Clinical environmental and behavioral strategies Epidemiology and Biostatistics, senior to reduce and related diseases in fellow with the Institute on Aging, senior African American and Latino fellow with the Leonard Davis Institute for communities. Health Economics, and faculty associate in the Penn Institute for Urban Research. Dr. Kumanyika's most widely cited work relates to the epidemiology and Dr. Kumanyika's current and recent management of obesity among black studies involve the development and Americans. She is a member of the evaluation of culturally appropriate executive board of the American Public interventions to prevent or treat obesity Health Association and the National among in clinical or Institutes of Health Clinical Obesity community-based settings. Dr. Research Panel, and was formerly a Kumanyika is the principal investigator member of the Institute of Medicine's and director of the Penn-Cheyney Food and Nutrition Board. Dr. Kumanyika EXPORT (Excellence in Partnerships for was vice chair of the World Health Community Outreach, Research on Organization (WHO) expert panel on Diet, Health Disparities and Training) Center Nutrition and Chronic Diseases (2003); for Inner City Health; a collaboration that and has chaired or cochaired other WHO involves the Penn Schools of Medicine, panels on obesity issues. Since 2002, she Arts and Sciences, Nursing, and Social has served on the expert panel to review Work as well as Cheyney University of evidence to update the World Cancer Pennsylvania's historically black Research Fund Report on Food, Nutrition institution located in the Philadelphia and the Prevention of Cancer Report; and area. EXPORT Centers are funded by the she has chaired the Prevention Group of National Center for Minority Health and the International Obesity Task Force Health Disparities at the National since 1996. In 2003, Dr. Kumanyika was Institutes of Health. The Penn-Cheyney elected to membership in the American EXPORT Center focuses on Epidemiological Society and the Institute of Medicine.