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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF Preventive Medicine A forum for the communication of information, knowledge, and wisdom in prevention science, education, practice, and policy. Editors Editor-in-Chief: Kevin Patrick, MD, MS, La Jolla Deputy Editor: Jill Waalen, MD, MPH, La Jolla Statistics Editor: Gregory J. Norman, PhD, La Jolla Managing Editor: Charlotte S. Seidman, FNP, MHS, MPH, ELS, La Jolla Associate Managing Editor: Beverly A. Lytton, BA, La Jolla Associate Editors Science: Steven H. Woolf, MD, MPH, Fairfax Education: Robert B. Wallace, MD, Iowa City Practice: Beverly B. Green, MD, MPH, Seattle International: Adrian Bauman, MB, BS, MPH, PhD, Sydney Policy: C. Tracy Orleans, PhD, Princeton Editorial Board Jasjit S. Ahluwalia, Minneapolis Gina Schellenbaum Lovasi, New York Thomas Baranowski, Houston Stephen A. Matthews, University Park Ross C. Brownson, St Louis J. Michael McGinnis, Washington DC Douglas Campos-Outcalt, Phoenix Angela D. Mickalide, Washington DC Frank J. 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Kohatsu, Sacramento Walter Willett, Boston Thomas E. Kottke, St Paul Antronette (Toni) Yancey, Los Angeles Fuzhong Li, Eugene Richard K. Zimmerman, Pittsburgh A Journal of the Published by Elsevier Inc ASSOCIATION FOR PREVENTION TEACHING AND RESEARCH www.ajpmonline.org Advertisements that appear in AJPM must be approved by the Editorial Offıce prior to publication. However, publication of an advertisement does not imply that the editors of AJPM nor AJPM’s sponsoring organizations, ACPM and APTR, endorse the advertised products or services. Governing Board Editorial correspondence should be Sponsoring Organizations’ Offıces: directed to: Stephen A. McCurdy, MD, MPH American Journal American College Chair of Preventive Medicine of Preventive Medicine Davis, California University of California, San Diego Michael A. Barry, CAE 9500 Gilman Drive, DEPT 0811 Executive Director Daniel S. 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Bldg, 1-9-15 Higashi-Azabu, Minato-ku, Tokyo Agency Ltd., 90 Tottenham Court Road, Lon- 106-0044, Japan; phone: (ϩ81) (3) 5561 5037; fax: don, WIP 9HE, or in the USA by the Copyright © 2012 American Journal of Preventive Medicine Creating Supportive Nutrition Environments for Population Health Impact and Health Equity An Overview of the Nutrition and Obesity Policy Research and Evaluation Network’s Efforts Heidi M. Blanck, PhD, Sonia A. Kim, PhD Abstract: Childhood obesity is a major threat to individual health and society overall. Policies that support healthier food and beverage choices have been endorsed by many decision makers. These policies may reach a large proportion of the population or in some circumstances aim to reduce nutrition disparities to ensure health equity. The Nutrition and Obesity Policy Research and Evalu- ation Network (NOPREN) evaluates policy as a tool to improve food and beverage environments where Americans live, work, play, and learn. The network aspires to address research and evaluation gaps related to relevant policies, create standardized research tools, and help build the evidence base of effective policy solutions for childhood obesity prevention with a focus on reach, equity, cost effectiveness, and sustainability. (Am J Prev Med 2012;43(3S2):S85–S90) Published by Elsevier Inc. on behalf of American Journal of Preventive Medicine Background NOPREN is depicted visually in Figure 1. This frame- work has been informed by a number of models including n 2009, the CDC’s Division of Nutrition, Physical Ac- classical approaches such as Kingdon’s theory for evalu- tivity and Obesity (DNPAO) created the thematic Pre- vention Research Center (PRC) network called the Nu- ation of policy and those more recently used in physical I activity policy research.1,2 Additional NOPREN activities trition and Obesity Policy Research and Evaluation Network (NOPREN). The mission of the network is to de- include the dissemination and translation