Grants

Healthy Eating Research: Building Evidence to Prevent Childhood Obesity

To support and disseminate focused investigator-initiated research and policy analysis to identify effective policy and environmental strategies for reversing the rise in childhood obesity by 2015, especially in populations and communities at greatest risk.

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National Program

University of Minnesota School of Public Health

Mayo Mail Code 197
420 Delaware Street, S.E.
Minneapolis, MN, 55455-0381

800-578-8636
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Mary T. Story
Program Director

612-626-8801
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Karen M. Kaphingst
Deputy Director

612-626-7950
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RWJF Staff

C. Tracy Orleans

Program Officer

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Kathryn A. Thomas

Communications Officer

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Recent Grants

$97,190.00 awarded to White Mountain Research Associates, LLC - Healthy Eating Research: Building Evidence to Prevent Childhood Obesity - Tools and technical assistance for program design and assessment
$152,913.00 awarded to University of Minnesota School of Public Health - Technical assistance and direction for RWJF's Healthy Eating Research program
$189,000.00 awarded to Atlanta Board of Education - Evaluating school food policy implementation within the Atlanta school system
$100,000.00 awarded to University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention - Studying the economic impact and the role of key stakeholders in school nutrition standard policy implementation
$74,954.00 awarded to Yale University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences - Studying the impact of school wellness policies on the school nutrition environment and student academic functioning and health

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