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Healthy Eating Research is a national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF). The program supports research on environmental and policy strategies with strong potential to promote healthy eating among children to prevent childhood obesity, especially among lower-income and racial and ethnic populations at highest risk for obesity. Findings are expected to advance RWJF's efforts to reverse the childhood obesity epidemic by 2015. The program goals are to:
Healthy Eating Research issues calls for proposals (CFPs) on a variety of topics related to environmental and policy research and solicits scientifically rigorous, solution-oriented proposals from investigators representing diverse disciplines and backgrounds. The program's overall aims are to identify the most promising strategies likely to have important population-level impacts and to provide decision- and policy-makers with evidence to guide and accelerate effective action to reverse childhood obesity. At our annual grantee meeting, researchers, policymakers, advocates, funders and others come together to share study findings and the latest thinking and research methods related to healthy eating and childhood obesity prevention. Healthy Eating Research also develops research briefs and syntheses and commissioned papers that address major policy issues in childhood obesity. Healthy Eating Research also sponsors other special research- and policy-related meetings. Click here to view meeting proceedings and presentations. |
