About
The Early Childhood Work Group convenes a multi-disciplinary network of practitioners, researchers, evaluators, and champions focused on policy, systems, and environmental approaches to improve young children’s nutrition and promote healthy growth in the places where children ages 0 through 5 years old live, learn, and play. A high priority of the Work Group is to advance knowledge on ways to best support nutrition promotion and obesity prevention within early care and education (ECE) settings. The primary activities of the Work Group is hosting regular webinars to disseminate innovative research and practice, share knowledge of rigorous scientific methods, foster collaborative research and evaluation opportunities to fill gaps, and provide mentorship and networking opportunities for both early career and senior professionals. The Work Group also supports subgroups that aim to share knowledge and/or conduct collaborative research in focused areas of early childhood nutrition promotion and obesity prevention including ECE. The Work Group is a collaborative effort of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Healthy Eating Research (HER) program and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Nutrition and Obesity Policy Research and Evaluation Network (NOPREN).
We invite all who are interested to join our listserv and attend our regular webinars. We additionally have several active sub-groups that work on specific projects on topics related to early childhood.
For more information about the work group, please visit here.
Download the article ‘Best Practices for Collaboration in Research’ by Lucy Delgadillo, Utah State University, for more information on the Learning Collaborative model.
To join the Early Childhood Listserv, please click the button below and fill out the form with your contact information.
Webinars
If you are interested in the recordings of any of these webinars, please email [email protected] to request it.