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January 1, 2013 | Journal Article
Changes in the Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) and the Healthy Lifestyle Initiative saw improved health for young children participating in the New York State (NYS) WIC program: breastfeeding mothers and mothers waiting to feed infants solid foods increased; screen time and overall overweight and obesity decreased among children in NYS under four years of age.
April 19, 2013 | New Public Health Post
Some would-be planters get stopped in their carrot tracks by regulations that prohibit use of public spaces for planting, or even limit what can be grown on private property.
October 1, 2012 | Journal Article
Expansion of WIC foods was associated with small positive externalities on the food environment.
October 31, 2012 | Program Result
The Convergence Partnership is a collaborative of funders creating healthy people in healthy places through policy and environmental change. It focuses on policy advocacy, access to healthy foods, and the built environment.
October 1, 2012 | Book
This is the story of the story of The Food Trust from its beginning in Philadelphia’s Reading Market to the present day. The Food Trust brings supermarkets and other healthy food outlets to underserved areas.
September 4, 2012 | Program Result
Evaluators from the Leadership Learning Community conducted a social network analysis of the public health communications network in North Carolina that focused on the 2011 launch of the County Health Rankings & Roadmaps.
August 23, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post
Around the country, print, broadcast and online media outlets are covering the groundbreaking work of Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) leaders, scholars, fellows and grantees. Some recent examples: Women who had attention-deficit hyperactivity ...
February 1, 2012 | Journal Article
African-American adolescents, particularly girls, are disproportionately affected by obesity. The food marketing environment has been shown to be an influencing environmental factor in youth obesity, yet little is understood about how African Americ ...
January 1, 2012 | Journal Article
As food production and consumption change, researchers look to datasets to provide information on food in America.
November 1, 2011 | Journal Article
This article examines the accuracy and usability of commercial databases as sources of information about food stores and restaurants. Since commercial databases are usually designed for non-health uses such as business and marketing, they require adaptation for use as public health tools.