Ginny Chomitz is a Senior Scientist at the Institute for Community Health and a Lecturer on Medicine at the Harvard Medical School. Her work focuses primarily on promoting healthy weigh through school-based nutrition and physical activity action programs and research. She currently has grant funding for Growing Healthy – a school garden and food service fruit and vegetable promotion project; Physical Education Enhancement (PEP) – a grant which includes developing and evaluating health and fitness report cards; and Beverages and Student Health (BASH) – an environmental approach to promoting non-caloric beverages. Core to this work is aligning the research and action programs to Cambridge and Somerville community-determined priorities and resources.

Dr. Chomitz has a BA from Antioch University in Yellow Springs, Ohio and a MS and PhD from Tufts University School of Nutrition in Medford, MA. Her doctoral work included field work in Java, Indonesia, exploring the relationships among diet, stature and household factors.

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