Richard Killingsworth Joins Nemours Health and Prevention Services

Wilmington, Delaware
Monday, July 07, 2008 @ 05:43 PM EDT
by: Karen Bengston, Public Relations Manager

Newark, Del. - Richard E. Killingsworth, MPH, has been appointed Director of Strategic Planning and Operations for Nemours Health and Prevention Services, Newark, Delaware.

In this role, he is responsible for developing and implementing the organization’s overall strategic plan and for managing operations that support it. Mr. Killingsworth provides leadership in aligning strategic direction with daily operations; in using business management tools to measure and build on success; and in influencing the way organizations and communities work together to support healthier people. 

Mr. Killingsworth is a nationally recognized leader in the area of health promotion and the effects of the built and natural environment on everyday life, especially health. He was previously Executive Director of the Harvest Foundation in Martinsville, Virginia. This $240 million private foundation administers grants in the areas of health, education and welfare. His extensive background includes serving as the Program Director for the Ruth Mott Foundation in Flint, Michigan. He was the Founding Director of Active Living by Design, a national initiative supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. There, he helped to create a national strategy and public policy agenda to address the relationship between the built environment and active living. Mr. Killingsworth also spent 15 years with the federal government and served as a health scientist with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, where he led the Active Community Environments Initiative, the first national initiative to focus on improving health through community design.

A veteran of the U.S. Army Military Police Corps, Mr. Killingsworth is a graduate of Indiana State University and earned his Master of Public Health degree from Indiana University. He is presently a doctoral candidate in Architecture, Culture, and Behavior at Georgia Institute of Technology. Mr. Killingsworth is the recipient of numerous accolades and awards and has been consulted for his expertise by some of the nation’s most prominent news media including The New York Times, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, USA Today, Time magazine, ABC News and NPR. He actively presents and publishes and has served as co-editor of the American Journal of Health Promotion. 

Nemours Health and Prevention Services (NHPS)
Nemours Health and Prevention Services (NHPS) works with families and community partners to help children grow up healthy. Our goal is to drive long-term changes in polices and practices that promote child health and to leverage community strengths and resources to have the greatest impact on the most children. One of our initial areas of emphasis is childhood obesity prevention through the promotion of healthy lifestyles, the center piece of which is The Campaign to Make Delaware’s Kids the Healthiest in the Nation.

NHPS is a division of Nemours, one of the nation’s largest pediatric health system operating the Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children, and outpatient facilities throughout Delaware, the greater Delaware Valley, and northern and central Florida. NHPS expands Nemours’ reach beyond clinical care to consider the health of the whole child within his or her family and community.

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