| Obesity is increasingly recognized as a growing national health problem with social, environmental, behavioral, genetic, and clinical facets and implications. Making progress will require approaches fashioned from across a broad spectrum of disciplines. A cursory analysis of faculty interests and resources at Northwestern reveals a wide range of expertise that could be brought to bear on the problems of obesity. Faculty members working directly or in areas closely related to obesity are in the Feinberg School's Departments of Medicine and Preventive Medicine, in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences' Departments of Neurobiology and Physiology and Anthropology, and at Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Children’s Memorial Hospital, and Evanston Northwestern Healthcare. Potential links may be made to the medical school psychiatry department, Weinberg psychology department, and Medill School of Journalism. Several major database projects exist, including NUGene, Women’s Health Initiative, and CARDIA and MESA studies. The school has no competitors in the Midwest for obesity-related research or major clinical programs. | |
