WIC & Nutrition Committees

In an effort to promote better nutrition for all of Georgia's children, the Georgia Chapter AAP developed the following committees.

WIC Advisory Committee

Goal : To maximize utilization of WIC nutrition services through a collaborative partnership between primary care physicians and providers of WIC services.

The Georgia Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Georgia WIC Program have established a statewide physicians outreach campaign to educate physicians and their office staff about WIC benefits/referral process and help address infant and child feeding issues, which can be supported by physicians and WIC staff to improve the nutrition status of women, infants and children.

The WIC Advisory Committee supports education to the primary care physicians, physician’s office staff and health department staff using 3 mediums of communication:

  Lunch-n-Learns

  Office Visits

  Mailings

PBAC (Georgia Physician Breastfeeding Advisory Committee)

Goal: Improve professional education in human lactation and breastfeeding.

The committee has identified that lack of adequate knowledge about breastfeeding, supplies, and support groups and available of the health professionals to be part of the problems for promoting breastfeeding in the State.  It has proposed that a strong effort should be directed toward the development of a clear, consistent, culturally appropriate breastfeeding education model for medical students, medical residents in pediatric, family practice and OBGYN departments, nursing program and nutrition programs in the State. 

Obesity Action Network

The Obesity Action Network (OAN) is a coalition of organizations and individuals seeking to stimulate effective efforts to address the problem of child obesity in Georgia. Activities of Network members include efforts to (1) improve assessment and monitoring and increase awareness of child obesity in Georgia, (2) stimulate preventive efforts through community-based programs and (3) improve treatment practices through development of treatment guidelines for use by health professionals.

The Obesity Action Network was assembled by the Nutrition Section in cooperation with the Georgia Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics.  The OAN also helps Public Health plan efforts to reduce obesity.