College of Public Health

News Story

Childhood obesity research earns widespread recognition

Posted 04/17/2009

Sarah Anderson, assistant professor in the College's Division of Epidemiology, has received significant local and national media attention for her groundbreaking research on childhood obesity.

News about her research was picked up by hundreds of news outlets including USAToday, ABC News and The San Francisco Chronicle.

Anderson is the lead author of a study that looked at body-mass indexes of 8,550 U.S. children and found that 18 percent of 4-year-olds are obese. The study was published in this week's Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine. Here are several links to the news coverage: Columbus Dispatch, Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post.

The original news release can be found at http://researchnews.osu.edu/archive/kidobesprev.htm

 News story featured in The Columbus Dispatch.

 

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The Ohio State University's College Public Health is an integral part of the most comprehensive health sciences campus in the nation. The college was created in February 2007 by the University Board of Trustees. First established in 1995 as part of the College of Medicine, we are the first and only accredited school of public health in the state of Ohio. Specializations within the college include biostatistics, epidemiology, health behavior and health promotion, environmental health sciences, health services management and policy, veterinary public health and clinical investigations. The college is currently ranked 21st in public health graduate schools by US News & World Report. Its Master of Health Administration program is ranked 12th.