To build the evidence-base for nutrition education and obesity prevention strategies and interventions that produce measurable improvements in health, obesity, nutrition (food behavior), and physical activity-related outcomes of interest to USDA; and develop effective education/extension, environmental,
systems, and policy translational activities that promote health and prevent/reduce obesity in disadvantaged low-income families and children.
Through the creation of these research centers and national coordination center both agencies are addressing the goals and priorities of the Department, and their respective agencies and mission areas.