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Heidi Michels Blanck is an American public health epidemiologist, nutrition and obesity researcher, and officer of the US Public Health Service Commissioned Corps. Blanck is currently chief of the Obesity Prevention and Control Branch at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and a senior advisor at the CDC. Blanck received a

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in Nutrition and Health Sciences from Emory University, and holds an

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position there. Blanck is a member of the

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and is also on the editorial board of the medical journal ''Childhood Obesity''.

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