Mission
Understand how maternal-child nutrition and physical activity optimize health and development
The Arkansas Children’s Nutrition Center is 1 of 6 national Human Nutrition Research Centers funded by a cooperative agreement with USDA-ARS.
State-of-the-art procedures, equipment, facilities, and approaches for basic, pre-clinical, clinical, community and implementation research ensure that scientific advances are accelerated into community or clinical care settings to impact all children.
Prioritizing gold-standard research
Uniquely positioned to investigate the root causes of complex childhood chronic diseases to prevent their development and enhance health
Establishing open source data for various stakeholders
Enhancing understanding of lifestyle factors that drive the development of chronic diseases, promoting transparency and efficiency for better-informed decisions.
Examining the Effect of Food
Constantly developing new ways to explore how the nation’s food sources, diet quality, and environmental exposures play a role in the cause or prevention of chronic diseases.
Recognizing the Rural South
Translating research findings to communities in Arkansas and beyond using implementation science and community-based research, to translate scientific discovery into the community
Goals
Address the root causes of the health crisis facing America’s youth, with a particular emphasis on preventing the development of childhood and lifelong chronic diseases and facilitating health for Americans.
Arkansas Children’s Nutrition Center strives to improve children’s health, in Arkansas and beyond