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Cool Video & More: Creating Latino Policy Change Agents

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7 months ago
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How can…

  • Researchers be Policy Change Agents? (Pg 1)
  • Latinos Take a “No-Soda Challenge? (Pg 3)
  • Parents Communicate Better w/Kids? (Pg 5)
  • Latinos Face Unhealthy Marketing? (Pg 6)

Find out in the Salud America! E-newsletter.

Also find lots more news, research and funding inside the E-newsletter, and discover the preliminary research results of several Salud America! grantees working in Latino clinics, communities, and schools.

Salud America! is funded by RWJF and directed by the Institute for Health Promotion Research at The UT Health Science Center at San Antonio, which developed SaludToday.

To sign up to receive Salud America! E-newsletters, go here.

VIDEO: Creating ‘Policy Change Agents’ to Reduce Latino Childhood Obesity

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11 months ago
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In its effort to reduce the Latino childhood obesity epidemic, Salud America!—through the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF)—funded 20 pilot research projects to build the field of Latino researchers and increase evidence to fight Latino childhood obesity.

The resulting 20 Salud America! pilot grantees have since tested innovative interventions and evaluations in Latino childhood nutrition, fitness and policy. The grants are “career-builders,” helping grantees leverage their data to get a foothold at their institutions, as well as embark on larger-scale work based off their successful pilot results.

The 20 grantees already have accrued more than $30 million in new funding, and more proposals are in review and development.

They also are sharing their individual research briefs (featuring preliminary research and policy implications) with local, regional and national policymakers.

Meanwhile, grantees also helped develop the Policy Contribution Spectra model, which visually illustrates how researchers can work in and between different levels in the policy development process—thus defining and measuring policy contribution. Grantees worked with a spectra expert to see how their work contributes to policy development, opening pilots’ eyes to innovative ways they can influence policy even when their pilot project expires.

Watch how far the grantees have become sort of “policy change agents”:

Salud America! The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) Research Network to Prevent Obesity Among Latino Children, is led by the Institute for Health Promotion Research (IHPR) at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, the team behind SaludToday. Salud America! has built a network—an online community—of nearly 2,000 researchers, academics, community leaders and other advocates dedicated to reversing Latino childhood obesity.

New Research Briefs Examine Obesity Epidemic Among Latino Youths

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1 year ago
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Salud America!, a national obesity prevention program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) based at The UT Health Science Center at San Antonio, has released a comprehensive collection of research briefs examining the obesity epidemic among Latino children and teens.

Three new national briefs review current evidence with respect to Latino youth in three major areas: nutrition, physical activity and the impact of food marketing.

These briefs also provide policy recommendations, including:

  • Efforts to bring healthy foods into neighborhoods and schools should particularly focus on Latino communities, since they are disproportionately affected.
  • Policies that can help people be physically active in their neighborhoods should emphasize Latino populations because they are more likely to live in areas that do not support such activity.
  • Efforts to reduce exposure to unhealthy food and beverage marketing should consider that Latino youth are particularly targeted by advertisers.
  • Health programs and messages should be culturally sensitive, relevant for all populations and produced in both English and Spanish.

In addition to these three briefs, 20 pilot grantees funded by RWJF through Salud America! have produced briefs highlighting their own, new research.

These briefs analyze a wide range of issues, from the impact of menu labeling in small restaurants in south Los Angeles, to how after-school programs can help Latino youth be active, to how community gardens can help lower-income Latino families eat more fruits and vegetables.

“These briefs provide a snapshot of the state of the Latino childhood obesity epidemic and describe how leaders and policymakers can more effectively address it,” said Dr. Amelie G. Ramirez, director of Salud America!, a national network of researchers, community leaders and policymakers who are working together to increase the number of Latino scientists seeking environmental and policy solutions to address Latino childhood obesity.

Latinos are currently the most populous and fastest growing U.S. ethnic minority.

And according to recent estimates, nearly 40% of Latino children and teens are overweight and more than 20% are obese.

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