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.

An Action Agenda for Schools and Communities to Fight Obesity

July 30, 2012 | Program Result

During 2006 to 2007, TV and radio host Tavis Smiley convened town hall meetings in four U.S. cities to raise awareness of childhood obesity. A key organization in each city then worked to spur state and local efforts to address the growing problem.

2012 County Health Calculator

April 3, 2012 | Story

Want to improve health? Start with where you live, learn, work, and play.

Healthy Schools for Healthy Kids

January 1, 2003 | Report

In response to dramatic and increasing national trends of childhood obesity, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) retained Pyramid Communications to identify opportunities for increasing children's physical activity and healthy eating in school ...

2003 Report to the Nation on how Schools are Responding to Childhood Obesity Epidemic

November 1, 2004 | Program Result

Pyramid Communications, a Seattle-based strategic public affairs organization, produced a report for RWJF on school-based physical activity and healthy eating programs to help curb the nation's childhood obesity epidemic.

IOM Develops Action Plan to Tackle Childhood Obesity and Charts Progress Two Years Later

July 29, 2008 | Program Result

In 2002 Congress directed the Institute of Medicine to research the problem and develop an action plan to address it.