Childhood obesity represents a worldwide medical and public health challenge. Academic medical centers cannot avoid the effects of the obesity epidemic, and must adopt strategies for their academic, clinical and public policy responses to childhood obesity. The Center for Healthy Weight at Stanford University and Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford provides an example and model of one such strategy. The design provides both breadth and depth through six cores: Research, Patient Care, Community Programs, Advocating for Public Policy Change, Training and Professional Education, and the Healthy Hospital Initiative. The Center and its cores are designed to facilitate interdisciplinary collaboration across the university, medical school, children's hospital and surrounding community. The foci of these cores are likely to be relevant to almost any academic medical center's mission and functions.

儿童肥胖是一个全球性的医学和公共卫生挑战。学术医疗中心无法避免肥胖流行的影响，必须采取学术、临床和公共政策应对儿童肥胖的策略。斯坦福大学健康体重中心和斯坦福大学露西尔·帕卡德儿童医院提供了此类策略的示例和模型。该设计通过六个核心提供了广度和深度：研究、患者护理、社区计划、倡导公共政策变革、培训和专业教育以及健康医院倡议。该中心及其核心旨在促进大学、医学院、儿童医院和周边社区的跨学科合作。这些核心的焦点可能与几乎所有学术医疗中心的使命和职能相关。