Nutrition and health

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Center to Prevent Childhood Obesity
is a national organization dedicated to reversing the childhood obesity
epidemic by changing public policies and creating healthier
environments in schools and communities. The center helps to shape and
coordinate the efforts of policy-makers, advocates and community
organizations by identifying and promoting the most promising
obesity-prevention strategies and supporting the nationwide movement to
improve food and physical activity environments.

Healthy Eating Research supports research on environmental and policy strategies to promote healthy eating among children to prevent childhood obesity, especially among the low-income and racial and ethnic populations at highest risk for obesity.

The Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity is a non-profit research and public policy organization devoted to improving the world's diet, preventing obesity, and reducing weight stigma.

These documents highlight the work, accomplishments and lessons learned from 12 partnerships across the country that worked to identify and implement promising healthy eating strategies for children in low-income community or school settings.

This publication is the first of a set of issue briefs prepared by Prevention Institute on behalf of the Healthy Eating Active Living Convergence Partnership.

Active Living By Design (ALBD) creates community-led change by working with local and national partners to build a culture of active living and healthy eating.