Healthy Eating Research

Healthy Eating Research (HER) is a national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) committed to building a Culture of Health through identifying effective strategies to improve children’s nutrition and prevent childhood obesity. HER’s mission is to support and disseminate research on policy, systems, and environmental strategies that promote healthy eating among children and advance nutrition and health equity. - Our Goals Build a research base for policy, systems, and environmental strategies that advance health and nutrition equity in the areas of healthy food access and security, diet quality, and healthy weight. Foster a vibrant, inclusive, interdisciplinary field of research and a diverse network of researchers. Communicate research findings to accelerate policy, systems, and environmental changes that promote healthy eating and advance nutrition and health equity.