 ASAO Bulletin BoardObituaryLois Englberger, a nutritionist who embraced anthropology and its multi-methodology, community-based approach to addressing important health issues, died 29 September 2011. Following work in Tonga, her research in the Federated States of Micronesia initially addressed Vitamin A Deficiency. In collaboration with the community she went on to develop a hallmark approach to addressing real-life nutritional issues, one that is evoking real culturally sensitive social change in Micronesia and elsewhere. Based on a sound evidentiary base, Lois and her collaborators founded The Island Food Community of Pohnpei (http://www.islandfood.org/). This local organization has fostered a multi-method, community-involved approach to encouraging the use of local foods to address critical community health issues. It has served as a model for other communities. Lois' approach to her work can be summed up in the Island Food Community's CHEEF approach: Culture, Health, Environment, Economics and Food Security. Lois had a knack for bringing people together and uniting them in her life-changing work. We will all miss her laugh and her contributions to knowledge about the Pacific and nutrition. Our sincere condolences to her family. Announcements from 2011 ASAO meeting in Honolulu
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