Robin Blackstone, MD

National Academy Invited Speaker – Roundtable on Obesity

During this talk I argued that the crisis of obesity is not a failure of personal responsibility but of public trust and systemic design. To rebuild that trust, you called for a shift from top-down public health to people-centered health—rooted in personal culture, biology, and technology—using AI, affordable treatments, and community-based models to end inherited obesity within a generation.