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Childhood Obesity

Childhood Obesity

Published in Association with Mary Ann Liebert

eISSN: 21532176 | ISSN: 21532168 | Current volume: 21 | Current issue: 5
As the premier journal in the field, this journal aims to improve the physical and mental health of children, adolescents, and families affected by obesity. The journal informs clinical care, supports health equity, influences public health and health care services, affects health policy change, and translates science advances across audiences. Priority is given to manuscripts that can inform: clinical practice, health policy, and public and population health approaches to childhood obesity.

Childhood Obesity continues to be the premier journal that informs clinical care, supports health equity, influences public health and health care services, affects health policy change, and translates science advances across audiences, all to improve the physical and mental health of children, adolescents, and families affected by obesity. Priority is given to manuscripts that can inform: clinical practice, health policy, and public and population health approaches to childhood obesity

The Journal focuses on quantitative, qualitative, and mixed-methods research and systematic reviews in the following areas:

Obesity prevention and management initiatives and interventions that are safe, compassionate, and equitable, whether in clinical settings or part of public health efforts
Dissemination and implementation research to accelerate adoption of effective strategies
Policy and environmental factors, including structural and systematic factors that contribute to health inequities and disparities
Determinants of obesity: biological, behavioral, environmental, and socio-cultural
Public and population health, focused on obesity prevention and treatment
Obesity education of clinicians, researchers, health leaders, policy makers, and other key stakeholders
Intergenerational transmission, long-term lifespan risks, comorbidities, and complications of obesity
The impact and elimination of weight bias and stigma
Social determinants of health, health disparities, structural inequities, access to care, and interventions focused on vulnerable and at-risk children, who are most affected by obesity.
Childhood Obesity is under the editorial leadership of Editor-in-Chief Joseph A. Skelton, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Associate Editor Emily M. D’Agostino, DPH, MS, MEd, MA, Duke University School of Medicine, and other leading investigators.

Audience: Physicians; nurses; dietitians; diabetes specialists and educators; nutritionists; psychologists; health counselors; school administrators; community organizers; and federal, state, and local health experts and policymakers; among others

Editor-in-Chief
Joseph A. Skelton, MD, MS, FAAP, FTOS Wake Forest School Of Medicine, Winston Salem, NC, USA
Associate Editor
Emily M. D'Agostino, DPH, MS, MEd, MA Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, USA
Communications Editor
Faith Anne Heeren, PhD Wake Forest University School Of Medicine, Sanford, NC, USA
Editorial Intern
Anesia Taylor Wake Forest University, Winston Salem, NC, USA
Editorial Board Members
Liliana Aguayo-Markes, PhD, MPH Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA
Keith T Ayoob Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, USA
Katherine N Balantekin, PhD, RD State University Of New York At Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, USA
Katherine W Bauer, PhD, MS University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Richard Boles, PhD University Of Colorado School Of Medicine, Broomfield, CO, USA
Callie L Brown, MD, MPH Wake Forest School Of Medicine, Winston Salem, NC, USA
E Thomaseo Burton, PhD, MPH Childrens Hospital Of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Hellas Cena, MD, MDCN University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy
Gail C Christopher, DN National Collaborative For Health Equity, Washington, DC, USA
Fatima Cody Stanford, MD, MPH, MPA, MBA, FAAP, FACP, FAHA, FAMWA, FTOS Massachusetts General Hospital Weight Center, Boston, MA, USA
Stephen R Daniels, MD, PhD Univ Of Colorado School Of Medicine, Aurora, CO, USA
Gary Foster Newtown Square, PA, USA
Gary S Goldfield, PhD Children’S Hospital Of Eastern Ontario Research Institute, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Amy Gross, LP, BCBA-D University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, MN, USA
Carolyn Gunther, PhD, RDN Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
Jess Haines, PhD, RD University Of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada
Jill Hamilton, MD University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
Sandra Hassink, MD, FAAP Nemours/Al duPont Hospital for Children, Wilmington, DE, USA
Hiba Jebeile, PhD, APD University Of Sydney, Nsw, Australia
Matthew Kasman Brookings Institution, Washington, DC, USA
Megan Moriarty Kelsey, MD, MS University Of Colorado Sch Of Medicine, Aurora, CO, USA
Chelsea L Kracht, PhD, MS University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, USA
Suzanne Lazorick Brody School Of Medicine East Carolina University, Greenville, NC, USA
Stephanie Mayne Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Amy R Mobley, PhD, RD, FAND University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
Justin B Moore, PhD, MS, FACSM Wake Forest Univ School Of Medicine, Winston Salem, NC, USA
Jennette Moreno, PhD Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
Cody D Neshteruk, PhD Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, USA
James D Nobles, PhD Leeds Beckett University, Leeds, United Kingdom
Paulina Nowicka, PhD, RD Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
Nathaniel S Oconnell, PhD Wake Forest University School Of Medicine, Winston Salem, NC, USA
Goutham Rao, MD University Hospitals Health System, Cleveland, OH, USA
Kyung Rhee, MD University of California, San Diego, CA, USA
Melissa Santos, PhD Hartford, CT, USA
David B. Sarwer, PhD Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Krista Schroeder, PhD, RN Temple University College Of Public Health, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Mahnoosh Sharifi, MD, MPH Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA
Amanda Staiano, PhD Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Baton Rouge, LA, USA
Stacy Stolzman Concordia University Wisconsin, Mequon, WI, USA
Mary Story, PhD Duke University, Durham, NC, USA
Linda Van Horn, PhD, RD Northwestern Univ Feinberg School Of Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA
Colby Vorland Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA
Melissa A Wake, MBCHB, FRACP, MD Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Victoria, Australia
Charles Wood, MD, MPH, FAAP Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, USA
Meg Zeller, PhD Univ Cincinnati College Of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, USA
Founding Editor
David L. Katz, MD, MPH, FACPM, FACP True Health Initiative, USA
Former Editor
Tom Baranowski, PhD Houston, TX, USA
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