Grant: Team Grant - India-Canada Collaborative Teams in Childhood Obesity Research

This proposed 5-year program under the leadership of a collaborative Canada-India translational research team intends to support action on the ground in the development of a breakthrough approach to prevent childhood obesity. The main objective of the proposed program is to examine the behavioral, body weight and nutritional risk for childhood obesity and associated chronic consequences, and to build capacity in both Canada and India research teams to build synergy in their respective strengths. This project will also examine the degree to which individual differences in genetics and biology and differences in the environmental exposures modulate the behavioral, body weight and nutritional risk over time. Another component of the research program is designed to contribute to childhood obesity research and policy-making, as well as to business and social innovation to mainstream health as a driver or change in everyday life of individuals and communities these serve. This work aims to advance our understanding of how childhood obesity in the specific context of each of the Canada and India local communities, as well as in efforts at the state/province, national and global level to promote. All of these findings will contribute to a new science to help preventing obesity and chronic diseases.