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
Providing Data for Better-informed Decisions
Establishing open source datasets from prior and ongoing studies to expand understanding of lifestyle and environmental factors driving development of chronic diseases
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 to restore healthy trajectories, preventing childhood chronic disease development
Arkansas Children’s Nutrition Center strives to improve children’s health, in Arkansas and beyond