Healthy Eating Research: Building Evidence to Promote Health and Well-Being Among Children Through Nutritious Foods and Beverages

Overview

<p>RWJF funds efforts to change public and institutional policies, systems, and environments in ways that<br>promote improved nutrition, dietary patterns, and healthy weight among children. RWJF is particularly<br>interested in supporting efforts that will impact those at highest risk of poor health and well-being<br>outcomes (e.g., black, Latino, American Indian/Alaska Natives, Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders; children living in lower-income rural and urban communities), with the aim of<br>promoting health equity.</p> <p>Currently, RWJF is focused on PSE strategies that support parents’ and caregivers’ ability to provide<br>environments that nurture and foster children’s physical, socioemotional, and cognitive health and wellbeing.<br>In the area of food and nutrition, we are particularly interested in PSE strategies that impact families, early care environments, schools, and communities at a population level. Research studies must focus on PSE approaches with strong potential to improve children’s physical, socioemotional, and/or<br>cognitive health and well-being through nutritious foods and beverages. Proposals will need to make clear connections between the study’s PSE strategies of interest and specific indicators of child health<br>and well-being.</p>