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September 8th, 2016
It has been five years since the Institute of Medicine's (IOM) Food Marketing to Children and Youth: Threat or Opportunity — a 2006 report that called on the food and beverage industries to combat...
September 8th, 2016
In January 2012, the National Collaborative on Childhood Obesity Research (NCCOR) hosted a two-day workshop in Washington, DC, on surveillance of the food system as a first step in improving the under...
September 8th, 2016
The Evaluation Research Forum brought together leaders of major childhood obesity evaluation efforts to consider shared measures and methods for evaluating community-based and state-based strategies. ...
September 8th, 2016
Worldwide, more than 42 million children younger than age 5 are overweight, according to the World Health Organization. A global epidemic, high rates of childhood obesity around the world are prom...
September 7th, 2016
Launched in 2009, the National Collaborative on Childhood Obesity Research (NCCOR) brings together four of the nation's leading research funders — the Centers for Disease Control and Preventi...
August 9th, 2012
Purpose: The Health Impact Project: Advancing Smarter Policies for Healthier Communities, a collaboration of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and The Pew Charitable Trusts, encourages the use of...
April 6th, 2009 | NCCOR
Session 2 of a four-part webinar series designed to disseminate approaches for evaluating obesity policies was held on April 3. It addressed the pitfalls associated with research in real world setting...
September 12th, 2012 | Events
Trust for America’s Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) will release their ninth annual “F as in Fat” report next week. There will be a Hill briefing for congressional staff and...
May 2nd, 2013 | Interviews, | NCCOR
Recently, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, a funder of the National Collaborative on Childhood Obesity Research, asked consulting firm The Greatest Good to put together a brainstorming session on c...
October 4th, 2012 | NCCOR
The American Journal of Preventive Medicine (AJPM) announced its awardees of the first Childhood Obesity Challenge this week. Several members of the National Collaborative on Childhood Obesity Researc...
