Missions & Goals

NCCOR’s mission is to build evidence and advance practice to reduce childhood obesity in the United States, creating a healthier future for all children, their families, and communities. 

As a partnership of major funders addressing obesity and health, NCCOR builds evidence and advances practice on strategic priorities in children’s nutrition, physical activity, obesity prevention, and overall ​well-being through the following approaches: ​ 

• Collaborating Across Disciplines and Sectors: We recognize that collaboration with many disciplines and sectors is needed, given the complex factors that influence healthy children, families, and communities. ​ 

• Developing and Promoting Tools and Resources: We develop tools and resources that support researchers, evaluation scientists, and practitioners to enhance their effectiveness, efficiency, and impact. ​ 

• Translating Research into Practice: We translate research into practice to promote community-wide solutions to improve broader public health impact. ​ 

Using the above approaches, NCCOR aims to create connections with new partners, explore emerging topics, and build on the evidence base for multi-sector interventions related to the policies, systems, and environments (PSE) that influence health outcomes. We support solutions that meet the physical, social, and emotional needs of all children, with particular attention to children and communities most at risk, in an effort to create a positive, population-wide impact. ​ 

NCCOR focuses on efforts to:

1. Identify, design, and evaluate practical and sustainable interventions, especially in high-risk populations and communities.
2. Increase and improve national, state, and local surveillance of childhood obesity.
3. Improve the ability of childhood obesity researchers and program evaluators to conduct research and program evaluation.
4. Provide national leadership to accelerate implementation of evidence-informed practice and policy.
5. Work with non-traditional health partners to integrate childhood obesity priorities with synergistic initiatives (e.g., environmental design and sustainability, food systems, food marketing, disabilities, or economics).