Title of Collaborative Activity: |
Workshop on Housing and Obesity: Gaps, Opportunities, and Future Directions for Advancing Health Equity |
Description of Collaborative Activity: |
The overall goal of this workshop is to accelerate research on the role of housing insecurity- including housing affordability, quality, stability, and its neighborhood context on behaviors and pathways underlying risk for obesity-related health disparities across the lifespan. The workshop will emphasize existing research that connects housing policies and programs with obesity and also address methods for housing and obesity research, including study design, measures, data linkages and analytic approaches. The event will highlight interventions focused on addressing housing as a social need and that also move upstream to address housing as a core social determinant of health. The workshop will include engaging and interactive discussions to identify key research questions for advancing health equity research priorities relevant to diverse sectors and identify opportunities to create research partnerships and collaborations across Federal, regional and local housing programs. |
NIH Participating Institutes/Centers/Office of the Director: |
NIDDK, NHLBI, NCI, OD/DPCPSI/ODP, NICHD, NINR, NIMHD |
