Healthy Eating Research: March 7, 2006 Deadline

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has launched "Healthy Eating Research," a five-year, $16 million program to evaluate changes in policies and environments that can promote healthy eating among children. The program was created to build and strengthen evidence needed to halt the epidemic of childhood obesity in the United States and will fund research that identifies, analyzes, and evaluates environmental and policy approaches that promote healthy eating and prevent obesity among children, particularly in low-income and racial/ethnic communities where childhood obesity is most prevalent. This first round of funding focuses on school food policies and environments. DEADLINE March 7, 2006. Complete program details and application on-line.