Martinson Lecture: 38 Years of CATCH: From RCT to Mass Dissemination
Friday, October 25 @ 10:00 am - 11:00 am CDT
Friday, October 25 @ 10:00 am - 11:00 am CDT
CATCH, the Coordinated Approach to Child Health is a K-12th grade school-based health program designed to promote physical activity, oral health, and healthy food choices and prevent tobacco use, vaping nicotine and THC and opioid use. CATCH transforms a child’s environment, culture, and society by coordinating child health efforts across all aspects of the educational experience: classroom, food services, physical education, and family. In this talk, Dr. Kelder will describe the origins and history of CATCH and it’s transformation from a grade 3-5 evidence based program to a Preschool to 12th grade general health education program with wide scale adoption and implementation in the USA and 44 other countries. He will elaborate on CATCH My Breath, a public health rapid response to the e-cigarette epidemic, where program development to international adoption occurred in 6 years.
Professor, Department of Epidemiology, Human Genetics, and Environmental Sciences UTHealth Houston School of Public Health, Austin TX
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