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.

Editor-in-Chief
Tom Baranowski, PhD
Professor Emeritus of Pediatrics
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, TX
Editor
Elsie M. Taveras, MD, MPH
Massachusetts General Hospital for Children & Harvard Medical School
Founding Editor
David L. Katz, MD, MPH, FACPM, FACP
Yale University
Managing Editor
Janice C. Baranowski, MPH, RD
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, TX
jbaranowwork@sbcglobal.net
Features Editor
Jamie Devereaux
Editorial Board
Sally H. Adams, RN, PhD
University of California, San Francisco
Keith-Thomas Ayoob, EdD, RD, FADA 
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Bronx, NY
Bettina M. Beech, DrPH, MPH
University of Mississippi Medical Center
Jackson, MS  
Heidi M. Blanck, MS, PhD
National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Gail C. Christopher, DN
National Collaborative for Health Equity
Washington, DC 

Stephen Cook, MD, MPH
Golisano Children’s Hospital at the URMC
Rochester, NY

Stephen R. Daniels, MD, PhD
University of Colorado School of Medicine
Children’s Hospital Colorado
Aurora, CO  
Nefertiti Harmon Durant, MD, MPH
University of Alabama at Birmingham
    School of Medicine
Birmingham, AL

Christina Economos, PhD
Tufts University
Boston, MA
John Foreyt, PhD
Baylor College of Medicine
Gary Foster, PhD
Weight Watchers International, Inc.
New York, NY

Ross A. Hammond, PhD
The Brookings Institution
Sandra G. Hassink, MD, FAAP
Nemours
David Heber, MD, PhD
UCLA Center for Human Nutrition
Wayne B. Jonas, MD
SHIFT, H&S Ventures
Alexandria, VA
Daniel S. Kirschenbaum, PhD, ABPP
Northwestern University Medical School
Nancy F. Krebs, MD
University of Colorado Denver Center for Human Nutrition
David S. Ludwig, MD, PhD
Children’s Hospital, Boston
Bernadette Melnyk, PhD, RN
The Ohio State University
Jennette P. Moreno, PhD   
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, TX

Tomoo Okada, MD
Nihon University
Tokyo, Japan

Grace O’Malley, MSc PT
The Children's University Hospital, Dublin
Russell R. Pate, PhD
University of South Carolina
Wendy D. Puriefoy, MBA
Senior Fellow for Education
Ford Foundation
Washington, DC
Goutham Rao, MD
Case Western Reserve University and University Hospitals of Cleveland
David B. Sarwer, PhD
College of Public Health at Temple University 
Melinda S. Sothern, PhD 
LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans
New Orleans, LA
Sachiko T. St. Jeor, PhD, RD
University of Nevada
Mary Story, PhD, RD
Duke University
Shikha S. Sundaram, MD, MSCI
University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine
Angie Tagtow, MS, RD, LD
Environmental Nutrition Solutions
Elkhart, Iowa
Linda Van Horn, PhD, RD  
Northwestern University
Christopher L. Wade, MD, MPH
Kaiser Permanente
Pasadena, CA

Margo G. Wootan, DSc
Center for Science in the Public Interest
Washington, DC
Meg H. Zeller, PhD
University of Cincinnati College of Medicine
Jeffrey Zitsman, MD
Columbia University Medical Center