Food Security

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The Future of Healthy Eating Research

Policy, Systems, and Environmental Change (PSE) strategies are critical tools in the battle for good health in adults and children.

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How to Improve Physical Activity and Health for All Children and Families

By M. Renée Umstattd Meyer, J. Aaron Hipp, Nisha Botchwey, Myron F. Floyd, Anna J. Kim, Keshia M. Pollack Porter & James F. Sallis

Physical Activity Research Center (PARC) investigators examine physical activity across built environments, parks and recreation, schools, and rural areas—all through an equity lens.

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The Colorado Health Foundation’s HEAL Evolution

By Dara Hessee, Khanh Nguyen, & Alexis Weightman

Learning to listen to community members was a critical step on the road to food security and good health for all Coloradans. Part of the Summer 2019 issue's Healthy Eating, Active Living supplement.

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How Market Forces Could Improve How We Eat

By Harold Goldstein

Health advocates and the food and beverage industries have traditionally clashed over issues of public policy. Warning labels might help the two find common ground.

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The Power of Business to Change Food Culture for the Better

By Nancy E. Roman 1

The key to getting people to adopt healthier eating habits may lie in leveraging the power of the private sector. Part of a sponsored supplement from the Summer 2019 issue.

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Political Power as a Tool to Improve the Health of All Americans

By Jake Williams 1

Healthier Colorado is that state’s largest health-advocacy organization. By supporting fundamental policy shifts and engaging actors at all levels of policymaking, they are helping create lasting change for Coloradans.

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Evaluate, Invest in Advocacy, and Shrink the Change

By Glenn E. Schneider & Nikki Highsmith Vernick

Troubling health trends in Howard County, Maryland, inspired the Horizon Foundation—a local health-focused philanthropy—to adopt a HEAL framework. Here’s what they learned along the way.