Michael & Susan Dell Center for Advancement of Healthy Living

Founded in 2006, the vision of the Michael & Susan Dell Center for the Advancement of Healthy Living is healthy children in a healthy world, with a mission to serve as a state, national and international leader in the promotion of healthy living. We seek to achieve this through prevention and control of childhood obesity through healthy eating and physical activity, promotion of healthy living behaviors in youth, policy and environmental change, and professional education and community service.

Featured Program 

  


CATCH (Coordinated Approach To Child Health)

CATCH logoInformation for CATCH grant proposals:

Grant Application: CATCH Can Be A Successful Part of Your "Communities Putting Prevention to Work"

CATCH Success Stories

 

Featured Faculty

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Sandra Evans, Ph.D.
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Featured Publications

Evans AE, Greenberg-Seth J, Smith S, Harris KK, Loyo JJ, Spaulding C, Gottlieb N. Parental feeding practices and concerns related to child underweight, picky eating, and using food to calm differ according to ethnicity/race, acculturation, and income. Maternal and Child Health Journal, Sept 2009, in press.  http://www.springerlink.com/openurl.asp?genre=article&id=doi:10.1007/s10995-009-0526-6

 

Hoelscher DM, Kelder SH, Pérez A, Day RS, Benoit JS, Frankowski RF, Walker JL, Lee ES. Changes in the Regional Prevalence of Child Obesity in 4th, 8th, and 11th Grade Students in Texas From 2000-2002 to 2004-2005.  Obesity, 2009 Oct 1. [Epub ahead of print].
 
 
 

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