Team CNMI recently garnered the Excellence Award at the University of Oxford’s Systems Mapping Global Competition. They presented a systems map that identified “complex systemic causes” of the prevalence of diet-related diseases in the CNMI. In the photo from right are Kaitlyn Neises-Mocanu, Commonwealth Healthcare Corporation special assistant for policy and sustainability, Patricia Coleman, interim dean of Northern Marianas College-Cooperative Research, Extension, and Education Services, and public health evaluation specialist Chloe Wingerter at the University of Oxford in Oxford, England. Joining them virtually are Reina Camacho, acting manager of administrative services and general support of the Division of Customs and Biosecurity, and Erin Camacho, dietician for the Public School System’s Food and Nutrition Program.
