{"id":15213,"date":"2016-05-04T16:15:35","date_gmt":"2016-05-04T20:15:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/?p=15213"},"modified":"2016-05-04T16:15:35","modified_gmt":"2016-05-04T20:15:35","slug":"griffin-to-lead-childhood-obesity-research-as-ghs-faculty-fellow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/griffin-to-lead-childhood-obesity-research-as-ghs-faculty-fellow\/","title":{"rendered":"Griffin to lead childhood obesity research as GHS Faculty Fellow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/clemson.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Sarah-Griffin_014.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-15114\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-portfolio wp-image-15114\" src=\"https:\/\/clemson.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Sarah-Griffin_014-495x400.jpg\" alt=\"Sarah Griffin_014\" width=\"495\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a>According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 30 percent of adolescents and close to 27 percent of low-income preschool children in South Carolina are already overweight or obese. Public health sciences faculty member Sarah Griffin is looking to be part of the solution. Recently named a Greenville Health System (GHS) Faculty Fellow, she will help lead GHS-Clemson research in childhood obesity and pediatric population health management.<br \/>\nGriffin will work with the\u00a0GHS Children\u2019s Hospital Department of Pediatrics to examine the effectiveness and costs of obesity prevention efforts associated with three GHS initiatives: the Greenville Memorial Childcare Center; the New Impact childhood obesity treatment program; and GHS health clinics at Berea, Lakeview and Tanglewood middle schools in Greenville.<br \/>\n\u201cWith ever-increasing childhood obesity rates, it is vital that researchers develop evidence-based prevention practices and provide scholarship on the effectiveness of these practices,\u201d Griffin said.[pullquote] \u201cHealthy interventions that change weight-related behavior and prevent or treat obesity benefit everyone: children, their families, health care systems and the community as a whole.\u201d[\/pullquote]<br \/>\nGriffin is the third Clemson faculty member to be named a GHS Faculty Fellow. Each fellow is strategically embedded in a GHS department, shifting their focus from their regular teaching duties to developing a comprehensive research agenda with their GHS department.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 30 percent of adolescents and close to 27 percent of low-income preschool children in South Carolina are already overweight or obese. Public health sciences faculty member Sarah Griffin is looking to be part of the solution. Recently named a Greenville Health System (GHS) Faculty Fellow, she [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":15114,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[606,880,1377,2391,2518,2697],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-15213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-these-hills","tag-childhood-obesity","tag-cw-spring-2016","tag-ghs-faculty-fellow","tag-research-news","tag-sarah-griffin","tag-spring-2016-in-these-hills"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/04\/Sarah-Griffin_014.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15213\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15213"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=15213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}