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Recent Letters from the Director

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The Relationship between Obesity and the Immune System

The Relationship between Obesity and the Immune System

September 30, 2025

This month STOP is exploring a topic that is relatively new to us, the relationship obesity has with immune health.

Aug 2025 Letter from the Director

The Role of Physical Activity in Obesity Treatment

The Role of Physical Activity in Obesity Treatment

September 3, 2025

Research has been clear that physical activity should be integrated into both the prevention and comprehensive treatments for obesity.

July 2025 Letter from the Director

Roadmap for Transforming Obesity Disease Management

Roadmap for Transforming Obesity Disease Management

July 25, 2025

Last month, the Center for Biomedical System Design (CBSD) program at Tufts Medical Center's Institute for Clinical Research and Health Policy Studies published a comprehensive roadmap for transforming obesity disease management in the United States.

 

 

 

News Archive

STOP Obesity Alliance Primary Care Roundtable

The STOP Obesity Alliance hosted a roundtable on adult primary care treatment and management of obesity on August 5, 2009.

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STOP Obesity Alliance Primary Care Roundtable Summary of Transcript (2009)

The STOP Obesity Alliance hosted a roundtable on adult primary care treatment and management of obesity August 5, 2009.

STOP Obesity Alliance Announces Eight New Associate Members to Help Raise Obesity on the Nation’s Public Health Agenda

Eight medical groups, public health associations and obesity experts joined the Strategies to Overcome and Prevent (STOP) Obesity Alliance today.

Obesity And The Workplace: Current Programs and Attitudes Among Employers And Employees

Large employers have accepted a role in addressing obesity in the workplace, but they don’t believe they should act alone.

Obesity GPS

STOP Obesity Alliance Releases Obesity GPS to Change America’s Course in the Fight Against Overweight and Obesity

The Strategies to Overcome and Prevent (STOP) Obesity Alliance today released the Obesity GPS – Guide for Policy and Program Solutions.

Strategies to Overcome and Prevent (STOP) Obesity Alliance Proposes Plan to Address the State of the Union’s Obesity Crisis

The Alliance is a collaboration of consumer, provider, business, labor, government, health insurance, and quality-of-care organizations.

New Academic Analysis Identifies Three Barriers to Achieving Healthy and Achievable Policies to Combat Obesity in America

The STOP Obesity Alliance today received a new academic analysis that identifies three barriers to combating obesity in America.

Re-Visioning Success: How Stigma, Perceptions of Treatment, and Definitions of Success Impact Obesity and Weight Management in America cover

Re-Visioning Success: How Stigma, Perceptions of Treatment, and Definitions of Success Impact Obesity and Weight Management in America

This research examines contributors to the disconnect btw the scientific data demonstrating harmful effects of obesity and insufficient action to change systems

STOP Obesity Alliance Sets 100 Day Plan of Action

The widespread interest in addressing this growing national epidemic is clear. 

GW Founds the Strategies to Overcome and Prevent Obesity Alliance (STOP Obesity Alliance)

GWSPH announced today a powerful collaboration of patient, provider, business, labor, health insurance and quality organizations.

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