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.

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 Role Can eHealth Play in Preventing Childhood Obesity?

May 11, 2009 | Program Result Report

Researchers sought to determine what role electronic technologies can play in preventing and reducing childhood obesity, especially in low-income and culturally diverse communities.

Web-Based Health Information Does Not Help People Live Healthier Lives

May 1, 2005 | Program Result Report

Pro-Change Behavior Systems, a research and development health behavior change firm, examined how well health behavior change Web sites help users change their health habits and how individuals use those sites.

Interactive Web-Based Tool Offers Strategies for Communities to Promote Healthy Eating and Enhance Physical Activity

April 1, 2008 | Program Result Report

Staff at Prevention Institute, which works to improve community health, updated and refined ENACT (Environmental Nutrition and Activity Community Tool), an interactive, Web-based tool to help communities improve nutrition and physical activity in seven key environments, including neighborhoods, schools and workplaces.

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.

Walking Program with Online and (Especially) Telephone Support Motivates African-American Women to Exercise

June 1, 2007 | Program Result Report

From 2000 to 2005, staff at the Black Women's Health Imperative created and implemented an online version of a self-help fitness program for African-American women called Walking for Wellness.

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.

The Lancet Presents New Models for Obesity Research

November 13, 2011 | Story

RWJF's Senior Scientist Instrumental in Development of the Childhood Obesity Modeling Network.

Measures Registry

April 20, 2011 | Toolkit

Two new web products provide publicly available data and promote the consistent use of common measures and research methods across childhood obesity prevention and research.

2011 County Health Calculator

March 30, 2011 | Chart

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