Healthy Eating Research
Identifying effective policy and environmental strategies to prevent childhood obesity.
Building Evidence to Prevent Childhood Obesity
Childhood obesity is one of the most serious threats to the health of our nation. The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), through its commitment to reversing the childhood obesity epidemic, has provided national leadership in efforts to achieve a healthy weight for all of our nation’s children, especially in lower-income communities and communities of color.
Healthy Eating Research: Building Evidence to Prevent Childhood Obesity supports research on environmental and policy strategies that have the greatest potential to improve healthy eating and weight patterns among children in order to prevent childhood obesity, especially among groups at highest risk for obesity: Black, Latino, American Indian, Asian/Pacific Islander children and children who live in lower-income communities.
The program is a collaboration between RWJF and the University of Minnesota School of Public Health located in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Grants and Grant Programs
Learn about the types of programs and activities RWJF supports, and our grantmaking process.
Related Resources
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Report
Healthy Eating ResearchNovember 20, 2012
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Healthy Eating Research aims to reduce childhood obesity by funding studies with potential to improve children's diets—especially children in the groups at the highest risk for obesity.
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Funding Opportunity
Healthy Eating Research: Building Evidence to Promote Health and Well-Being Among Children05/23/2018
This RWJF national program supports research on policy, systems, and environmental strategies with strong potential to promote the health and well-being of children at a population level.
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Blog Post
Where We’ve Been and Where We’re Going to Give Children a Healthy Start04/05/2016
We need to ensure that all children get a healthy start to life and can reach kindergarten at a healthy weight. The nation is already making progress to promote healthy eating, encourage physical activity, and provide access to mental health care.
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Supporting Healthy Eating Research's 2018-2021 commissioned research activities
Wed Nov 28 00:00:00 EST 2018
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Technical Assistance and Direction for RWJF's Healthy Eating Research program, 2018-2019
Wed Jul 11 00:00:00 EDT 2018
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Testing drinking water in California public schools for lead and other contaminants in the context of an obesity-prevention strategy -- Transfer grant
Thu Oct 26 00:00:00 EDT 2017
The Foundation's program, Healthy Eating Research: Building Evidence to Prevent Childhood Obesity, was designed to support investigator-initiated research to identify and assess environmental and policy influences with the greatest potential to improve healthy eating and weight patterns among the nation's children.