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April 1st, 2009 | Publications
April 2009 Given the high rates of obesity prevalence in the United States and around the world, research interest has grown regarding the effects of the community food and physical activity environm...
July 12th, 2016 | NCCOR, | News, | Publications, | Research, | Uncategorized
In 2013, NCCOR formed the Childhood Obesity Declines Workgroup, to better understand reported declines in childhood obesity. An expert panel convened to start assessing how U.S. cities and counties ar...
October 7th, 2016
Research Roundtable III: Food Advertising and Marketing to Children and Youth FHI 360, Washington, DC April 4-5, 2011 Aims Co-hosted by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) and the Nation...
October 7th, 2016 | Webinars
Since 2003, obesity rates among children in the United States have remained high, creating a new generation at risk for health problems later in life. Although reducing the prevalence of childhood obe...
October 7th, 2016
October 2011 Green Health: Building Sustainable Schools for Healthy Kids NCCOR Green Health Workshop report Workshop speaker videos Exploring Distributed Surveillance Systems for Physical...
December 21st, 2017 | News
How does obesity in childhood affect weight status into adulthood? A recent article in the New England Journal of Medicine, “Simulation of Growth Trajectories of Childhood Obesity into Adulthood,”...
January 24th, 2018
In 2014, NCCOR held a one-day meeting funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to convene leading international and interdisciplinary researchers and practitioners to share lessons learned to guid...
May 9th, 2016
Purpose: Healthy Eating Research: Building Evidence to Prevent Childhood Obesity is a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) national program. The program supports research on environmental and poli...
February 15th, 2018 | News, | Publications
Launched in 2009, the National Collaborative on Childhood Obesity Research (NCCOR) brought together the nation’s four largest childhood obesity research funders—CDC, NIH, USDA, and RWJF—in a pub...
April 1st, 2009 | News
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Commission to Build a Healthier America – led by Mark McClellan, M.D., Ph.D. and Alice M. Rivlin, Ph.D., two national health care and fiscal policy leaders – rel...
