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PARTNERS | HEALTHY CITY | HOW HEALTHY | VISION | SUMMIT | PRIORITIES | FUNCTIONS | CITY OF FALL RIVER |
NECON, a not-for-profit,
non-partisan organization that serves as a vehicle for the development
and enhancement of disease prevention and health promotion public
policies and practices in New England, held its 27th Annual Conference on
Promoting Prevention entitled "Shaping the Prevention Movement
in New England" on October 23, 2009, at the Royal Plaza Hotel and Conference
Center in Marlboro, MA. The conference opened with remarks by Washington
Post columnist E.J. Dionne, Jr., who grew up in Fall River. The
luncheon address on "The Power of Prevention" was given by Dr.
J. Michael McGinnis
of the Institute of Medicine. The program closed with a presentation
by Dr. Michael Jacobson, Director of the Center
for Science in the Public Interest. NECON originated in Fall
River in 1984 as an initiative of the Yaffe Foundation and is now comprised
of working groups and healthcare coalitions in the six New England
states that periodically make recommendations
to the New England Governor's Conference and
health care policymakers throughout New England
for the improvement
of the health status of the region. Click
here for photos of the 2008 conference. For more information about
NECON, contact
Bert Yaffe. |
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(Top row, left) NECON organizer Bert Yaffe, who ran a Promoting Prevention institute at Bristol Community College in the 1980s and 90s, welcomes over 200 people to the conference. (Top row, center) Massachusetts Dept. of Public Health commissioner John Auerbach describes the Mass In Motion program which has funded a Fall River project. (Top row, right) Washington Post columnist E.J. Dionne, Jr., recalls some of his experiences helping Mr. Yaffe his political campaign in Fall River in the 1970s. (Middle row, left) Chair of the Department of Nutrition at the Harvard School of Public Health Walter Willett, MD, DrPH, describes the current crisis in overweight and obesity in the U.S. (Middle row, center) Dr. David L. Katz, Director of the Yale-Griffin Prevention Research Center describes some of the obesity programs he has pioneered in schools. (Middle row, right) Dr. Dan Levy, Director of the Framingham Heart Study, talks about the progress that has been made in reducing heart disease and stroke. (Bottom row, left) Jessica Collins of Partners for a Healthier Community in Springfield, MA, describes her work with the Shape Up Somerville and Children In Balance program in Somerville, MA. (Bottom row, center) Conference participants, including Amanda Szot of Southcoast Hospitals and Kelly Nevins of BMC HealthNet Plan, enjoy lunch. (Bottom row, right) Nathalie and William Kaufman, formerly of Fall River, enjoy the presentations. |
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