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.

Five Forums Generate Nutrition and Physical Activity Policy Recommendations

February 20, 2013 | Program Result

The Bipartisan Policy Center hosted five public forums and produced a report, Lots to Lose: How America's Health and Obesity Crisis Threatens our Economic Future.

AMA Primer Helps Primary Care Physicians Address Obesity with Their Patients

March 1, 2005 | Program Result

In 2003, the American Medical Association (AMA) produced a 10-booklet primer that offers practical recommendations to physicians for addressing adult obesity in the primary care setting.

A Three-Time Friend of the Foundation

June 18, 2012 | Story

Pamela Federline started fresh out of college on the Infant Health and Development Program, moved on to the Generalist Physician Initiative, and from there to the Covering Kids Initiative. That made for many happy memories.

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Trustee, Regina Benjamin, M.D., M.B.A., Nominated for Surgeon General of the United States

July 13, 2009 | News Release

Nominee praised for her expertise, credentials, judgment and passionate commitment to health care equity and social justice.

Childhood Obesity

March 1, 2010 | Journal Article

Overcoming the childhood obesity epidemic will require changes on the scale of a social movement similar to the shift in attitudes and regulations toward smoking and tobacco.

Adoption of Body Mass Index Guidelines for Screening and Counseling in Pediatric Practice

February 1, 2010 | Journal Article

This study used an existing survey to assess whether pediatricians were using BMI percentiles to manage (i.e., to screen for and treat) obesity. The study revealed underlying beliefs that pediatricians hold about their own capabilities for addressing childhood obesity.

Getting Primary Care Physicians to Address Childhood Obesity

September 16, 2010 | Program Result

Researchers at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry carried out research to find the best ways to encourage primary care physicians to screen and treat childhood obesity in their practices and their communities.

Older Adults Can Get Moving: New Screening Tool Tailors Activities to Individual Needs

September 16, 2010 | Program Result

The Texas A& M Health Science Center undertook a comprehensive overview of methods used to screen older people before they begin exercise regimens.

Management of Child and Adolescent Obesity

July 1, 2002 | Journal Article

Psychological, Emotional, and Behavioral Assessment

Health Consequences of Obesity in Youth

March 1, 1998 | Journal Article

Childhood Predictors of Adult Disease