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.

"We Need Better Food Choices"

November 10, 2010 | Program Result Report

Researchers and community leaders across the country are using the Nutrition Environment Measures Survey (NEMS) widely, and the data they have gathered, in some cases, has helped influence stores and restaurants to improve their food choices.

Training for and Dissemination of the Nutrition Environment Measures Survey (NEMS)

November 1, 2010 | Journal Article

Evaluation of workshops on Nutrition Environment Measures Surveys found that the workshops effectively disseminate and promote use of the measures to assess the relationship between nutrition environments and obesity.

"If You Have Something People Need ... Give it Away"

March 24, 2010 | Story

How an Innovative Tool to Measure Nutrition Environments Achieved Broad Uptake in the Field; Karen Glanz, PhD, MPH

Patterns of Obesogenic Neighborhood Features and Adolescent Weight

May 1, 2012 | Journal Article

In this large survey of teens in Minneapolis-St. Paul, three different statistical analyses point to convenient access to unhealthy foods and lack of safe space for outdoor recreation as neighborhood elements that lead to higher rates of adolescent ...

Interactive Map: The Evolution of an Epidemic

January 27, 2009 | Chart/Story/Interactive

Map and charts depict the rise of the obesity epidemic in America.

Healthy Kids, Healthy Communities

February 17, 2012 | Program Result Report

In Healthy Kids, Healthy Communities, partnerships in 49 communities nationwide are changing local policies and revamping the physical environment to foster healthy living and prevent childhood obesity.

Changing Policies and the Physical Environment So Children and Families Can Eat Well and Move More

February 14, 2012 | Story

A profile of Sarah Strunk, MHA, director of Healthy Kids, Healthy Communities.

2011 County Health Calculator

March 30, 2011 | Chart

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

Health e-Technologies: Building the Science of eHealth

May 28, 2010 | Program Result Report

Health e-Technologies supported research to evaluate the effectiveness of technological applications in improving health behaviors and chronic disease management and in enhancing patient-provider interactions.

What Really Works to Reduce Childhood Obesity? Stakeholders Want Evidence

January 23, 2009 | Program Result Report

Between September 2005 and December 2007, Public Health Informatics Institute staff conducted telephone interviews and met with diverse stakeholders involved with childhood obesity to learn about their needs for information.