Anti-Fatness in Public Health
Reconsidering "obesity" and its "prevention"
How does weight stigma and anti-fat bias intersect with public health practice?
Course Information
- Audience: Public Health workers, researchers, healthcare providers
- Format: Self-paced
- Price: Free
- Length: 1 hour
- Credential(s) eligible for contact hours: 1 hour
Sponsored by New England Public Health Training Center (NEPHTC), a designated provider of continuing education contact hours (CECH) in health education by the National Commission for Health Education Credentialing, Inc. This program is designated for Certified Health Education Specialists (CHES) and/or Master Certified Health Education Specialists (MCHES) to receive up to 1. total Category I continuing education contact hours. Maximum advanced-level continuing education contact hours are 0. Provider ID: 1131137 Event ID: PM1131137_03252023.
If you are not seeking a CHES/MCHES contact hours, if you complete the post-test and evaluation, you will receive a Certificate of Completion. The Certificate will include the length of the course. - Competencies: Health Equity
- Learning Level: Awareness
- Supplemental materials: None
- Pre-requisites: None
About this course
Our public health and healthcare systems have focused heavily on "obesity" as a disease to be prevented. However, much of this is confounded by weight stigma and anti-fat bias within our own work. A paradigm shift from "obesity prevention" to understanding weight stigma as a social and structural determinant, public health practitioners and researchers can avoid causing harm, and push for better outcomes for their communities.
What you'll learn
After completing the training, you will be able to...
- Define weight stigma as a multilevel system of material oppression
- Identify/recognize how weight stigma contributes to poor health outcomes and confounds epidemiologic research
- Understand how common practices in public health promote, uphold, and create weight stigma
Subject Matter Experts
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| Marquisele (Mikey) Mercedes | Monica Kriete, MPH | |
Presidential Fellow, Brown University School of Public Health, Co-host, Unsolicited: Fatties Talk Back |
Writer, speaker, and consultant |
Enrollment and Contact Hours
Note there are two different options for enrolling in this course highlighted in the table below.
The Certificate of Completion will include the length of the module. Generally 50 – 60 minutes is equivalent to 1 contact hour. Contact hours may be applicable towards continuing education requirements for certain credentials. Check with your credentialing body to verify if the topic meets its continuing education requirements.
Sponsored by NEPHTC & YSPH, a designated provider of continuing education contact hours (CECH) in health education by the National Commission for Health Education Credentialing, Inc. This program is designated for Certified Health Education Specialists (CHES) and/or Master Certified Health Education Specialists (MCHES) to receive up to1total Category I continuing education contact hours. Maximum advanced-level continuing education contact hours are0. Provider ID #1131137. Event ID #SS1131137_AFAPH
Having trouble accessing the course? Contact support@nephtc.org
Acknowledgement: This project is supported by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) as part of award 2 UB6HP31685‐05‐00 “Public Health Training Centers.” The contents are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent the official views of, nor an endorsement, by HRSA, HHS or the U.S. Government.