Salud America! Gets $1.3M to Fuel Changes that Reduce Childhood Obesity

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Salud America! The RWJF Research Network to Prevent Obesity Among Children this week received a one-year, $1.3 million grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) to develop new educational content that empowers people to drive healthy changes for children.

The new funding allows Salud America! to expand its membership, which has recruited more than 10,000 parents, leaders, academics, and more.

The network also will conduct research reviews and recommendations to guide anti-obesity efforts.

It also will enhance its award-winning Salud America! Growing Healthy Change website with: new campaigns to engage people in reducing obesity; new multimedia Salud Heroes stories and videos of successful healthy changes; expanded social media (@SaludAmerica) interaction with Tweetchats, contests, etc.; and much more.

“We are extremely grateful that RWJF is enabling us to further expand our content-creation capabilities to empower more people to make healthy changes,” said Amelie G. Ramirez, DrPH, director of Salud America! and the Institute for Health Promotion Research at UT Health San Antonio. “Our website and content will continue to be used by individuals and groups who choose to push for changes that improve people’s health.”