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December 6, 2011
The National Cancer Institute (NCI) hosted a webinar series on accounting for measurement error in dietary intake data. Organized by…
November 10, 2011
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health has been awarded a $16 million U54 cooperative agreement from the National…
October 21, 2011
The IOM Standing Committee on Childhood Obesity Prevention hosted a one-day workshop titled “Legal Strategies in Childhood Obesity Prevention.” (more…)
August 26, 2011
An Obesity Series, released Aug. 26 in The Lancet, features four papers and related commentaries from NCCOR’s Collaborative Obesity Modeling…
August 1, 2011
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) today released recommendations or best practices for scientists conducting mixed methods health research. Mixed methods…
June 4, 2011
On April 29, The National Collaborative on Childhood Obesity Research (NCCOR) launched the Measures Registry, a searchable database of diet…
April 29, 2011
A searchable online registry of diet and physical activity measures relevant to childhood obesity research WASHINGTON, DC – The National…
February 4, 2011
A compilation of 75+ U.S. surveillance systems provides researchers with a one-stop resource on childhood obesity data WASHINGTON, DC –…
January 24, 2011
Original article | The New York Times By Nicholas Bakalar In the fight against childhood obesity, communities all over the…
September 21, 2010
This five-part webinar series described various activities, strategies, and resources aimed at creating healthy and safe environments. It attracted participants…
September 9, 2010
NHLBI Office of Communications The National Institutes of Health is launching two major research efforts, totaling $72.5 million, to examine…
August 4, 2010
HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius today announced the six winners of innovation awards in the first cycle of the HHSinnovates program.…
May 11, 2010
In February 2010, first lady Michelle Obama launched the Let’s Move! campaign to solve the childhood obesity epidemic within a…
April 28, 2010
The Children’s Caucus announced the creation of its Congressional Task Force on Childhood Obesity, a bipartisan team of House of…
March 23, 2010
Cancer Control P.L.A.N.E.T. was developed as a web portal to assist with moving research into practice. The Dana-Farber Cancer Institute…
March 5, 2010
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has joined the National Collaborative on Childhood Obesity Research (NCCOR), a public-private research collaboration…
February 26, 2010
NIH Research Radio recorded a podcast interview titled “Research to Health Fight Childhood Obesity: NCCOR.” Dr. Rachel Ballard-Barbash, associate director…
February 23, 2010
A recent double issue of the Journal of Hunger & Environmental Nutrition bridges food systems and public health by identifying successful research,…
February 10, 2010
February marks the one-year anniversary of the National Collaborative on Childhood Obesity Research (NCCOR), a public-private collaboration to accelerate progress…
January 28, 2010
The following is a statement by Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, M.D., M.B.A., president and CEO of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation: The…
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