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NIH Obesity Research Task Force

The NIH Obesity Research Task Force was established to accelerate progress in obesity research across the NIH, given the importance of the obesity epidemic as a public health problem and its relevance to the missions of most of the NIH Institutes, Centers, and Offices (ICs).

Committee Chairs

Griffin P. Rodgers, M.D., M.A.C.P.

Director, NIDDK

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David C. Goff, M.D., Ph.D.

Acting Director, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute

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John Gaitanis, M.D

Director, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health.

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