Obesity and tobacco forum

The CT Public Health Policy Institute will hold a breakfast forum on overweight and obesity in CT and tobacco use and smoking in CT Tuesday Jan. 19th from 8 am to noon in Room 2A of the Legislative Office Building. The forum will include presentations with background, cost analysis and consequences of the problems followed by a panel on future interventions and time for questions. The research was funded by the Universal Health Care Foundation of CT. Previous work by the CT Public Health Policy Institute includes an analysis of overweight and obesity in CT, and another on CT’s primary care capacity.