The Michael & Susan Dell Center for Advancement of Healthy Living Celebrates its Grand Opening
March 21, 2007
The Michael & Susan Dell Center for Advancement of Healthy Living celebrated its grand opening on March 21, 2007. The world-class research center focuses on improving healthy living in communities, homes and schools by addressing the childhood obesity epidemic, child and adolescent development, and community programs and policies in Austin. The new center is located on the University of Texas-Austin campus and is headed up by UT faculty member, Deanne M. Hoelscher, Ph.D., R.D., L.D., C.N.S.
Founded through a grant from the Michael & Susan Dell Foundation to the UT School of Public Health, the center will bring together existing work from the school’s Human Nutrition Center, including its successful and widely recognized program, CATCH (Coordinated Approach to Child Health), a K-5 school and family-based program designed to improve healthy eating and increase physical activity.
"The UT School of Public Health is very excited about the grand opening of the Center. This partnership with the Michael & Susan Dell Foundation marks a significant beginning to our goal of addressing the epidemic of childhood obesity and its effect on related chronic diseases," said UT School of Public Health Dean Guy Parcel, Ph.D.
To find out more about the Michael & Susan Dell Center for Advancement of Healthy Living, go to http://www.sph.uth.tmc.edu/DellHealthyLiving/home.asp
March 21, 2007
The Michael & Susan Dell Center for Advancement of Healthy Living celebrated its grand opening on March 21, 2007. The world-class research center focuses on improving healthy living in communities, homes and schools by addressing the childhood obesity epidemic, child and adolescent development, and community programs and policies in Austin. The new center is located on the University of Texas-Austin campus and is headed up by UT faculty member, Deanne M. Hoelscher, Ph.D., R.D., L.D., C.N.S.
Founded through a grant from the Michael & Susan Dell Foundation to the UT School of Public Health, the center will bring together existing work from the school’s Human Nutrition Center, including its successful and widely recognized program, CATCH (Coordinated Approach to Child Health), a K-5 school and family-based program designed to improve healthy eating and increase physical activity.
"The UT School of Public Health is very excited about the grand opening of the Center. This partnership with the Michael & Susan Dell Foundation marks a significant beginning to our goal of addressing the epidemic of childhood obesity and its effect on related chronic diseases," said UT School of Public Health Dean Guy Parcel, Ph.D.
To find out more about the Michael & Susan Dell Center for Advancement of Healthy Living, go to http://www.sph.uth.tmc.edu/DellHealthyLiving/home.asp