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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.
December 1, 2002
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The Health Promotion Research Foundation held the 12th Annual Art and Science of Health Promotion Conference on February 12-16, 2001, in Washington, D.C., to begin to document the health and financial impact of health promotion.
December 1, 1998
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The American Journal of Health Promotion held a conference, "Health Promotion Across the Life Span," on March 23-28, 1998, in Monterey, Calif.
June 1, 2005
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Researchers from the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School developed and conducted a preliminary survey of participants in the RWJF national program Prescription for Health: Promoting Healthy Behaviors in Primary Care Research Networks.
January 1, 2003
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Tufts University School of Nutrition Science and Policy in Medford, Mass., on behalf of the Partnership to Promote Healthy Eating and Active Living, held a two-day summit on healthy eating and active living in Washington on April 25-26, 2000.
September 1, 2007
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Children Now hosted "The Future of Children's Media: Advertising." The conference took place in Washington and brought together the nation's leading policy-makers, academics, media executives and advocates.
December 20, 2012
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Active Living Research is an ongoing national program to identify environmental factors and policies that can substantially increase levels of physical activity and to provide policy-makers with evidence about how to create more activity-friendly communities.
February 25, 2011
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The Active Living Resource Center focuses on helping communities at highest risk of inactivity and childhood obesity promote physical activity.
November 11, 2008
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The California Nutrition Network for Healthy, Active Families conducted in-depth interviews with experts in program planning and evaluation in order to gain an external critique of its evaluation model.
October 31, 2008
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The University of Illinois established a National Blueprint Office to help implement the National Blueprint for Increasing Physical Activity Among Adults Age 50 and Older, released in 2001 and funded by RWJF.
April 15, 2010
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Active for Life studied how to deliver and sustain research-based physical activity programs in real-world settings so that large numbers of older Americans could benefit from them.
