PHI Episode 39: Childhood Obesity & Georgia SHAPE

This episode of Public Health Impact (PHI), produced by the University of Georgia College of Public Health, looks at childhood obesity in the state of Georgia and the efforts underway at UGA and the Georgia Department of Health to help combat this public health epidemic. The College's also draws awareness for National Public Health Week through its Tai Chi program with Kaiser Permanente in this episode.

This episode is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Cliff Baile, director of the UGA Obesity Initiative.

Guests are: Dr. Phillip Williams, dean of the UGA College of Public Health; Dr. Marsha Davis, professor and associate dean of the Outreach and Engagement, College of Public Health; Dr. Emily Vall, Georgia Department of Public Health; Dr. Brenda Fitzgerald, Commissioner, Georgia Department of Public Health; Michael Issa, Tai Chi instructor, Kaiser Permanente; and Dr. Ko Itani, professor of health policy and management, College of Public Health. Interviews were recorded in Rhodes Hall, the College of Public Health's new administrative home on the UGA Health Sciences Campus.

PHI, now in its fourth season, is hosted by Dr. Cham Dallas and Dr. Phaedra Corso, faculty members in the college's Department of Health Policy and Management, and filmed at various locations on the UGA Health Science Campus and in Athens, Ga.