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The Massachusetts Public Health Association (MPHA) invited community health workers and others to a free workshop on Policy
Advocacy for Equal Access to Healthy Food and Exercise |
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(Top row)
SSTAR dietitian Joan Barrett, R.D.,
HIV counselor Jason Demoranville, Diabetes
Association community health worker Grace Diaz, SSTAR diabetes
community health worker Sonia Talavera, and SSTAR health access counselor
Bea Dean listen as MPHA Deputy Director for Program and Policy Terry
Mason goes over some of the reasons that obesity has become such problem
among children and adults. (Middle row) SSTAR HIV service coordinator
Albert Rufin and Lisa Alves of the Women, Infants and Children (WIC) program
listen as Terry uses a Jeopardy game to introduce ways that participants can advocate for
and improved food supply in the Southeastern region of the state. (Bottom
row) Jason makes a point as Kathleen Christianson of the UMass -Dartmouth Office of Campus and Community Sustainability,
Grace Diaz and Bea Dean listen and respond. |
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