Childhood Obesity

In 2011, the CDC established The Childhood Obesity Research Demonstration (CORD) Project to meet the requirements of the Affordable Care Act and address the call for comprehensive, multilevel, multisetting approaches to prevent and reduce childhood obesity. This special issue of Childhood Obesity, guest edited by Kirsten Davison, PhD and Brook Belay, MD, MPH, presents nine articles and an accompanying editorial covering this collaboration.

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The Childhood Obesity Research Demonstration Project: Linking Public Health Initiatives and Primary Care Interventions Community-Wide To Prevent and Reduce Childhood Obesity
H.M. Blanck and J.L. Collins

Childhood Obesity Research Demonstration (CORD): The Cross-Site Overview and Opportunities for Interventions Addressing Obesity Community-Wide
J.L. Foltz, B. Belay, C.A. Dooyema, N. Williams, and H.M. Blanck

Design of the Massachusetts Childhood Obesity Research Demonstration (MA-CORD) Study
E.M. Taveras, R.E. Blaine, K.K. Davison, S. Gortmaker, S. Anand, J. Falbe, J.-A. Kwass, M. Perkins, C. Giles, S. Criss, R. Colchamiro, J.W. Baidal, T. Land, and L. Smith, the MA-CORD Study Group

Evaluation Overview for the Massachusetts Childhood Obesity Research Demonstration (MA-CORD) Project
K.K. Davison, J. Falbe, E.M. Taveras, S. Gortmaker, M. Kulldorff, M. Perkins, R.E. Blaine, R.L. Franckle, C. Ganter, J.W. Baidal, J.-A. Kwass, J. Buszkiewicz, L. Smith, and T. Land, the MA-CORD Study Group

Our Choice/Nuestra Opción: The Imperial County, California, Childhood Obesity Research Demonstration Study (CA-CORD)
G.X. Ayala, L. Ibarra, A. Binggeli-Vallarta, J. Moody, T.L. McKenzie, J. Angulo, H. Hoyt, E. Chuang, T.G. Ganiats, S. Gahagan, M. Ji, M. Zive, E. Schmied, E.M. Arredondo, and J.P. Elder

Evaluation Protocol To Assess an Integrated Framework for the Implementation of the Childhood Obesity Research Demonstration Project at the California (CA-CORD) and Massachusetts (MA-CORD) Sites
E. Chuang, G.X. Ayala, E. Schmied, C. Ganter, J. Gittelsohn, and K.K. Davison

The Utility of Geographical Information Systems (GIS) in Systems-Oriented Obesity Intervention Projects: The Selection of Comparable Study Sites for a Quasi-Experimental Intervention Design—TX CORD
A.O. Oluyomi, A. Byars, C. Byrd-Williams, S.V. Sharma, C. Durand, D.M. Hoelscher, N.F. Butte, and S.H. Kelder

Incorporating Primary and Secondary Prevention Approaches To Address Childhood Obesity Prevention and Treatment in a Low-Income, Ethnically Diverse Population: Study Design and Demographic Data from the Texas Childhood Obesity Research Demonstration (TX CORD) Study
D.M. Hoelscher, N.F. Butte, S. Barlow, E.A. Vandewater, S.V. Sharma, T. Huang, E. Finkelstein, S. Pont, P. Sacher, C. Byrd-Williams, A.O. Oluyomi, C. Durand, L. Li, and S.H. Kelder

Childhood Obesity Research Demonstration Project: Cross-Site Evaluation Methods
D.P. O'Connor, R.E. Lee, P. Mehta, D. Thompson, A. Bhargava, C. Carlson, D. Kao, C.S. Layne, T. Ledoux, T. O'Connor, H. Rifai, L. Gulley, A.M. Hallett, O. Kudia, S. Joseph, M. Modelska, D. Ortega, N. Parker, and A. Stevens, the EC-CORD (BETTER Policies) Team

The Childhood Obesity Research Demonstration Project: A Team Approach for Supporting a Multisite, Multisector Intervention
N. Williams, C.A. Dooyema, J.L. Foltz, B. Belay, and H.M. Blanck

Editor-in-Chief:
David L. Katz,
MD, MPH, FACPM, FACP