GOL

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Summary
Project GOL works in collaboration with the Mexican National Institute of Public Health (Instituto Nacional de Salud Publica, INSP) to better understand, assess and develop evidence-based strategies and recommendations to effectively prevent obesity in Latin-American communities and populations. This collaboration provides the unprecedented opportunity of coordinating international efforts to identify evidence-based best practices in obesity prevention.
Over the next four years, Project GOL will continue to build partnerships between institutions on both sides of the U.S.-México border to develop research and recommendations for preventing obesity among Latino populations. The study is organized into three major phases, which aim to:
• Examine and synthesize published literature related to policy-, community-, and organizational-change strategies to promote physical activity and healthy diets.
• Develop a set of recommendations for the primary prevention of obesity aimed at Latino populations, both in the U.S. and Mexico.
• Implement and evaluate community demonstration projects, based on the translation and tailoring of identified evidence-based strategies.

Partners
Mexican National Institute of Public Health (Instituto Nacional de Salud Publica, INSP) 

Contact Information
Nadia Campbell
T: (619) 594-2740
E: ncampbell@mail.sdsu.edu