It’s time to explore new solutions to address our nation’s obesity epidemic, a condition that affects approximately 40 percent of US adults and about 20 percent of adolescents. As a chronic disease and known risk factor for type 2 diabetes, hypertension, cardiovascular disease, and many types of cancer, obesity impacts businesses through lost productivity and overwhelming health-care costs. There is growing recognition that employers should be part of the solution, given their direct impact on the workplace, employees, their families, and communities. In light of this, employers have an interest in investing in and implementing public health strategies that recognize obesity as a chronic disease, achieve whole person care, and address weight-based stigma. Panelists will explore effective, evidence-based models of employer-led obesity care and discuss innovative strategies to adopt these initiatives.

Moderator

Tina Reed

Senior Health Care Reporter, Axios

Speakers

Gregory Daniel

Vice President and Head of Global Public Policy, Eli Lilly and Company

Nadine Gracia

President and CEO, Trust for America's Health

Joseph Nadglowski

President and CEO, Obesity Action Coalition

Christa-Marie Singleton

Chief Medical Officer, US Office of Personnel Management

Julie Stich

Vice President, Content, International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans