The National Collaborative on Childhood Obesity Research (NCCOR) is a new joint program from the CDC, NIH, and RWJF. From the press release on RWJF:
Through the collective efforts of these organizations, NCCOR will aim to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of research on childhood obesity. It will evaluate new and existing prevention approaches, rapidly assess promising policy changes and speed the application of interventions that work.
Hopefully this will pay off by bringing together talented organizations and researchers, there is more information on the NCCOR website.
Related to childhood obesity, I had a great opportunity to present some new research at the UT School of Nursing Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Research in Underserved Populations (CHPR) annual conference. The presentation focused on the use of the Internet by low health literate parents in trying to raise children with healthy eating and physical activity habits. I probably need to wait before posting more, because the formal article reporting that research is currently under review. But the conference in general was great, I highly recommend it to anyone with interests in health disparities research.
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