Ann Whidden is Communications Manager at Oakland-based Prevention Institute, where she leverages new and traditional media strategies to build momentum, understanding and support for quality prevention. She has eighteen years experience as a health and communications professional, working to create compelling strategies that amplify best practices, capture media attention, and inspire action. She has a master's degree in public health from San Francisco State University. Find Prevention Institute on twitter: @preventioninst.
Ann Whidden
Ann Whidden is Communications Manager at Oakland-based Prevention Institute, where she leverages new and traditional media strategies to build momentum, understanding and support for quality prevention. She has eighteen years experience as a health and co
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October 10, 2011
On Wednesday morning, a faceoff between kids’ health and the food industry will reach a months-long culmination. CEOs from some of the biggest food companies in the world will show up to say they should not be held accountable—even by voluntary, science-based guidelines—for the foods they market to kids. Think they have our kids’ best interests at heart? We’re Not Buying It . Federal health and consumer protection experts (known as the Interagency Working Group), have proposed reasonable, science-based nutrition guidelines to help provide a model for companies that market to kids...
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December 1, 2010
If Sarah Palin had shown up at the door of my son’s kindergarten class with fresh baked cookies, he would have been at the front of the line. And I wouldn’t have been able to do a thing about it. Like most parents, I work full time, and I depend on my school—and its food policies—to protect my son’s health when I’m not around.
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