Region Advisor on Healthy Eating and Active Living
Pan American Health Organization
jacobyen@paho.org
Enrique Jacoby is a Peruvian M.D. trained at San Marcos University in Lima with a Masters Degree in Public Health Nutrition from Johns Hopkins University. Since the year 2000 he works as Regional Advisor on Healthy Eating and Active Living, in the Pan American Health Organization (the Americas branch of WHO) in Washington, D.C. Some activities related with his present position are: The coordination of the Regional implementation of the WHO Global Strategy on Healthy Diet, Physical Activity and Health; the organization of the Task Force Trans Fat Free Americas; and the development of strategic partnerships with the sustainable urban development community in the Americas.
Enrique is co-founder of the Network of Ciclovias (Car-Free Sundays) of the Americas and promoter of the Active Cities, Healthy Cities Contest that awards cities that are taking steps towards becoming more livable, sustainable and healthy. He was co-Principal Investigator of an international project sponsored by CDC that studied the relationship between the urban physical environment and transportation on the levels of physical activity and health of the people in Bogota City. In the last five years, he has worked in public health policies and programs in Chile, Brazil, Mexico, Ecuador, Argentina, Puerto Rico, Colombia, and Costa Rica.
Previous to his current position in PAHO Enrique worked in public health nutrition in Peru and Ecuador over more than 15 years. He was Principal Investigator in the Nutritional Research Institute in Lima, Peru (1989-1999) and in 1995-97 visiting researcher in the Department of Pediatrics, Medical School of the University of California, Davis. He has published more than 50 peer-reviewed scientific articles.
TT2010 Day One - Afternoon Session
15:45 - 16:00: Presentation of Topic 2: Transport and Physical Activity
"TT2010: Day One, Afternoon Session, Enrique Jacoby", a video by EMBARQ
