The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Center to Prevent Childhood Obesity is a national organization dedicated to reversing the childhood obesity epidemic by changing public policies and creating healthier environments in schools and communities. The center helps to shape and coordinate the efforts of policy-makers, advocates and community organizations by identifying and promoting the most promising obesity-prevention strategies and supporting the nationwide movement to improve food and physical activity environments.

WHO WE ARE  
The center is informed by the work of national leaders in childhood obesity prevention, public policy and social justice and directed by the Arkansas Center for Health Improvement (ACHI), in strategic partnership with PolicyLink.
ACHI is a nonpartisan, independent health policy center based in Little Rock. The organization was instrumental in developing and implementing Arkansas Act 1220 of 2003, one of the nation’s first successful statewide obesity-prevention programs.  PolicyLink, a research and action institute that advances economic and social equity is well-known nationally for its leadership and advocacy to improve health and well-being especially in low-income and communities of color.

ABOUT THE ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON FOUNDATION  
The RWJF Center was established with a $20 million commitment from the
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the country’s largest philanthropy devoted exclusively to improving the health and health care of all Americans.
The Foundation has committed $500 million over five years toward its goal
of reversing childhood obesity in the United States by 2015—the largest investment by any foundation on this urgent public health issue.

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