Olympics provide an unrealized opportunity to improve global health
Given the increased interest in sports and exercise around the Olympics underway in Tokyo, events such as the Summer Games represent an unrealized opportunity to improve global health, finds a new Lancet study from the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis.
The Olympics and other mass sporting events are a missed opportunity to promote population-level health and physical activity changes around the world. Our challenge is translating the enthusiasm about the games into at-scale sustainable public health programs.
Rodrigo Reis, professor at the Brown School and associate dean for public health
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Given the increased interest in sports and exercise around the Olympics underway in Tokyo, events such as the Summer Games represent an unrealized opportunity to improve global health, finds a new paper from the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis.
“The Olympics and other mass sporting events are a missed opportunity to promote population-level health and physical activity changes around the world,” said Rodrigo Reis, professor at the Brown School and associate dean for public health. “Our challenge is translating the enthusiasm about the games into at-scale sustainable public health programs.”
Reis
The paper suggests that to capitalize on increased attention on athletics during the games, careful pre-Olympics and peri-Olympics partnerships between the local organizing committee, the International Olympic Committee, and national and regional public health agencies are needed to implement community physical act
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SIUE to induct nine to Alumni Hall of Fame
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EDWRDSVILLE Southern Illinois University Edwardsville will honor nine graduates at the 2021 SIUE Alumni Hall of Fame ceremony, A Night Among the Stars, on Sept. 23.
The alumni have made exceptional contributions in their chosen fields, in their communities and at SIUE through their leadership, character and hard work.
“Those selected for the Alumni Hall of Fame represent the best of SIUE,” said Andrew Ravanelli, PhD, SIUE Alumni Association president. “It is our honor to induct these outstanding individuals.”
The 2021 honorees listed by their college or school:
• College of Arts & Sciences: Jessica McCaskill, BA Communications 2006
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