Building Comprehensive Obesity Surveillance

The primary goal of this project is to establish a working group of
public health researchers and practitioners to evaluate and recommend
approaches to monitoring obesity and its determinants, in order to
support state and local efforts to prevent and control obesity.

This project is funded by the CDC as an adjunct to the HPRC Obesity
Prevention Network.

Principal Investigator: Karen Peterson, ScD, RD
Funder: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Funding Dates: October 1, 2000 - September 30, 2004