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The Second Annual Southern Obesity Summit will bring together health experts from the south to disseminate information, discuss best practices and to create individual state action plans for addressing obesity prevention and reduction. The proceedings of the conference will be utilized by CDC to inform program decisions surrounding obesity.

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STATEMENT OF WORK

PROCEEDINGS OF THE SECOND ANNUAL SOUTHERN OBESITY SUMMIT

BIRMINGHAM, AL

SEPTEMBER 7-9, 2008

I. Background:

The southern states of the US share many common characteristics such as culture, economic, ethnic, and racial composition that affect the burden of chronic disease and obesity. These challenges provide fertile ground for sharing strategies and seeking solutions to shared problems.

To date, few obesity strategies have included shared plans as multi-state initiatives. While southern states pursue their own obesity prevention strategies, there is no multi-state approach to address the poor obesity outcomes or to compare upstream approaches associated with policy, environmental and system changes.

The Annual Southern Obesity Summit examines existing evidence and identifies what stimulates and sustains innovation in obesity prevention. The Summit serves as the primary vehicle for identifying and disseminating evidence-based and emerging practices in the South, strengthening our capacity to respond to the obesity challenge.

Building on this momentum, the 2008 Summit in Birmingham, Alabama will promote multi-stakeholder approaches to obesity prevention at all levels. Expansion of the event includes an additional state, Missouri, increasing the attendees to 400, conducting a series of State conference calls prior to the event and providing support following the event. Scholarships will target local public health and community based organizations, to advance their role in informing state and federal level policy processes.

II. Purpose:

The purpose of this work is to cooperate with the Texas Health Institute who is sponsoring a Southern Obesity Summit meeting with a goal of convening southern health experts is to disseminate information, discuss best practices, and to create individual state action plans for obesity prevention and reduction and to utilize the information, ideas and issues addressed at the meeting to inform the CDC program decisions surrounding obesity.

III. Scope:

The Texas Health Institute shall provide CDC with a summary report of the proceedings and findings of and documents prepared during the Southern Obesity Summit to be held in Birmingham, AL, September 7-9, 2008.

The Southern Obesity Summit objectives include:

1. Reinforce efforts of committed southern practitioner teams.

2. Connect peer obesity prevention leaders to further promote, coordinate, and sustain prevention activities.

3. Share examples of successful implementation strategies.

4. Promote partnerships so obesity prevention efforts can be evaluated and a body of knowledge built nationally.

5. Develop strategies for informing and encouraging policy makers to develop regional strategies for reducing obesity rates.

IV. Tasks to be Performed:

1. Through the Summit, the contractor shall promote multi-stakeholder approaches to obesity prevention at all levels. Approximately 400 participants will be registered to participate from Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, West Virginia and Missouri.

2. Conduct a series of State conference calls prior to the event and providing support following the event.

3. Provide scholarships to local public health and community based organizations to advance their roles in informing state and federal level policy processes.

4. Prepare and provide a summary report of the proceedings and findings of the Summit.

V. Deliverables

The contractor shall provide one electronic copy of the final proceedings and documents by not later than September 15, 2009.

VI. Period of Performance

Work shall begin by not later than September 1, 2008, and shall continue through September 15, 2009.

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