Program Development Committee
Strategic Goal:
Identify gaps in services and programs that increase access to Physical Activity, Nutrition, and Obesity Prevention (PANO)Â related services that reduce health disparities, improve outcomes, and affect system or cultural change.
Potential Actions
- Access what is available for everyone, providing the tools and skills.
- Identify and make available innovative evidence-based community programs and preventative lifestyle practices and behavioral health.
- Encourage municipalities to promote physical infrastructure to support healthy lifestyles.
- Provide education on nutrition and wellness with facts to change misperceptions.
- Support and promote programs that make healthy lifestyles easier and promote healthy lifestyles.
- Find ways to make health resources and information on nutrition, wellness and recreational programs more accessible to consumers.
- Evaluate the success of this goal and its outcomes.
Bite-Sized Bits: Webinar Series
Live Webinar
Wellness for the Workforce: Preparing Students for Physical Activity, Nutrition and Obesity Prevention (PANO) Careers
Join the Advancing Healthy Lifestyles Coalition for our April 2025 Bite-Sized Bits lunch and learn webinar! Representatives from Delaware’s Universities will share information about their various public health programs and student offerings, highlighting how they prepare students for the public health workforce.
Jayden Carr
- Zoom
Presenters
Megan A. Rothermel, Ed.D
Professor of Practice, Public and Allied Health Sciences Department Delaware State University
Shannon Robson, PhD, MPH, RD
Associate Professor, Health Behavior & Nutrition Sciences, University of Delaware
Amy Gootee-Ash, PhD
Public Health Program Director, Delaware State University
Shannon Speed, PhD, CHES
Assistant Professor in Health Behavior & Nutrition Sciences, Director - Health Coaching Clinic, University of Delaware
Angela Herman, DNP, RN
Director of Health Sciences, College of Health Professions and Natural Sciences, Wilmington University
Upcoming Meetings
Meetings are held on the second Thursday of the month from 2:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.
Past Meetings
Committee Members
Megan RothermelDelaware State University
Chair