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November 19th, 2014 | Awards
The newly launched BUILD Health Challenge is seeking innovative proposals for community-based organizations, hospitals, local health departments, and other key stakeholders to work as partners on effo...
October 20th, 2014 | Research
Rates of adult obesity increased in six U.S. states and fell in none last year, and in more states than ever— 20— at least 30 percent of adults are obese, according to an analysis released on Sept...
August 25th, 2014 | Research
It is well-documented that children with obese parents are at greater risk for obesity. In a new study, researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital, Cornell University, and Duke University looked ...
August 15th, 2014 | Research
By Caroline Porter and Stephanie Armour A new study reveals that the healthier school lunches despised in 2012 are now found to be agreeable among students and staffers. When the federal government ...
August 13th, 2014 | NCCOR
Today, nearly one out of three kids in America are overweight or obese. The numbers are even higher in the African American and Hispanic communities. Overweight and obese kids are at risk for a host...
March 29th, 2018
Purpose: The goal of this effort is to catalyze research partnerships that result in rigorously designed studies that could be funded by Evidence for Action (E4A), another Robert Wood Johnson ...
April 6th, 2023
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 pro...
November 28th, 2018
Purpose: The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Health Policy Research Scholars Program (HPRS) is a four-year national leadership development program for full-time doctoral students from noncl...
October 14th, 2021 | News
Washington, DC, October 14, 2021—A new paper published today in The American Journal of Preventive Medicine describes priorities and next steps for enhancing measurement tools and using high quality...
April 4th, 2023 | News
On April 27, 2023, NCCOR, in partnership with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, will host a Connect & Explore webinar, “Cooperative Extension’s National Framework for Health Equity and Well-...
