Advocacy

Ongoing Commitment to Advocacy

The Obesity Society is committed to advancing policy changes that address the current epidemic of obesity. Our advocacy program has three leading objectives:

To assist in the development of programs designed to prevent obesity;
To ensure patients have access to quality medical care for obesity treatment;
To increase funding of obesity research.

To this end, The Obesity Society has worked with the United States Congress, the US Surgeon General, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, HMOs and others. Details regarding our recent activities can be found on this page and throughout our website.

Info on this page should be broad topics and programs and link to specific press releases.

Position statments will live in publications but will be featured in advocacy.

List of recent Advocacy efforts

Capitol Update

The monthly Advocacy Newsletter of the Obesity Society

To read the current and past issues of Capitol Update, click here.

Advocacy Update

A summary of Obesity Community efforts

To read current and past issues of the Advocacy Update, click here.

(Please note: External Links are provided as a courtesy. The Obesity Society is not responsible for the content on sites accessed through external links.)

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