Reducing the gap right from the start: Translating effective approaches to prevent child obesity in disadvantaged families into primary health care policy and routine practice. [ 2015 - ]

Research Grant

Researchers: Dr Rachel Laws (Principal investigator)

Brief description The aim of this fellowship is to identify effective primary health care (PHC) based approaches to prevent obesity amongst children from disadvantaged families and understand the factors influencing the uptake of such approaches into routine PHC policy and practice. The findings will inform practice and policy decisions about the implementation of child obesity prevention programs within the Australian PHC system.

Funding Amount $154,718.00

Funding Scheme Early Career Fellowships

Notes Australian Research Training (Part-time) ECF