Childhood Obesity Program Area
RWJF is committed to tackling one of the most urgent threats to the health of our children and families—childhood obesity. Our goal is to reverse the childhood obesity epidemic by 2015.
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Strong Medicine for a Healthier America
December 20, 2010 | Journal Article/Story
American Journal of Preventive Medicine supplement examines how social factors affect health and offers recommendations for action.
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Commission to Build a Healthier America
April 9, 2009 | Issue Brief
The Commission's recommendations outline the greatest opportunities to improve the health of all Americans, including improving nutrition, physical activity and early childhood development eliminating tobacco use creating healthy places and establishing accountability for health impact in all policies.
Recommendations for Improving the Nation's Health
April 2, 2009 | Video
Video report summarizes findings of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Commission to Build a Healthier America.
Conversation: Recommendations of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Commission to Build a Healthier America
April 2, 2009 | Video
Commissioner and former ABC News anchor Carole Simpson hosts a video dialogue exploring the commission's findings.
RWJF Launches Commission to Build a Healthier America
February 27, 2008 | Video/Story
The nonpartisan commission will investigate how factors such as education, environment, income and housing shape and affect personal behavioral choices. The United States spends more on health than any other nation. Yet, the U.S. ranks at or near th ...
Commission Seeks Ways to Foster Better Health Outcomes and Improve the Health of All Americans
February 27, 2008 | Story
Foundation issues new report which finds poor, minority and middle-class Americans with less education live sicker and die younger.