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Journal supplement: Obesity Prevention Across Borders: The Promise of US-Latin American Research Collaboration

Overview

Fogarty coordinated a peer-reviewed scientific journal supplement, Childhood Obesity Prevention Research Across Borders: The Promise of US-Latin American Research Collaboration , published in Obesity Review that explores nine cross-cutting themes and articulates a shared research agenda to address childhood obesity prevention in Latin America and among Latino populations in the United States. The supplement harnesses a particular layer of the Community-Energy Balance Framework to understand the contextual influences that define the problem, the current research landscape, and the opportunities for cross-border learning. In addition, it details the measurement challenges, research capacity needs, and chemical exposures that cut across the field. Finally, the supplement identifies innovative methods and scientific tools that could advance the development and delivery of interventions that require multi-sector collaboration. 

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The Global Childhood Obesity Prevention Across Borders project is coordinated by Fogarty's Center for Global Health Studies (CGHS)  to catalyze collaborations between U.S. and Latin American scientists on childhood obesity prevention.

Updated July 23, 2024