My recent research and work includes nutrition and physical activity promotion, especially among school-aged youth and adolescents, by encouraging individual responsibility in leading healthier lives and removing barriers to making healthy choices. However, I have only concentrated on the policy behind the health promotion, not the education and workshops that would actually spread the message to the target audience. For this reason, I’m interested in getting the real feel of how a workshop like this would run in a high school environment--especially one in DC where obesity and food insecurity are common. I look forward to pushing myself to be comfortable in this new environment.
In addition to learning more about how to run an effective health promotion workshop, I also expect to learn more about the adolescent learner and the techniques and strategies that make an impact for them. I want to use this knowledge to make the policies I suggest more impactful and successful for promoting the overall health and well-being of adolescents. Personally, I hope this information will help me understand my 19 year old brother and his past struggles better.
I'm looking forward to a short but great summer session!
Fraser Rothenberg Byrne
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This is the website for the project I'm working on: www.commissiononhealth.org and the 10 policy recommendations I mentioned to address the social determinants of health: http://www.commissiononhealth.org/Recommendations.aspx and they are broken out by focus area, including nutrition, physical activity, healthy places, etc.
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