WSUV Professor Earns Acclaim For Childhood Obesity Research

July 27th, 2012 by Len Saunders

From The Colombian??

Clark County?s university campus lay still this week, with only a few final exams left in the summer term.

But Jane Lanigan is not expecting downtime real soon.

The Clark County researcher is involved in several national efforts to combat childhood obesity, and even made a splash in the international research community this spring. Her study on how to get kids to eat healthy and exercise produced an interview method that may soon be used to assess childhood-obesity programs nationwide.

Lanigan, who has taught at WSUV for 10 years, last year completed a three-year pilot project as its lead researcher. The project was called Encouraging Healthy Activity and Nutrition in Childcare Environments, or ENHANCE.

The project, which was a collaboration of several nonprofits, colleges and a K-12 agency, examined 43 child care and early-learning facilities in Clark County. It was paid for by the Northwest Health Foundation, a Portland nonprofit.

?We were aware that the obesity problem has become quite acute throughout Washington,? Lanigan said.

A lot of the then-current research focused on kids already in school. About one-third of all middle- and high-school-aged children in Washington are overweight or obese, according to federal health data.

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