The National Collaborative on Childhood Obesity Research (NCCOR) brings together four of the nation’s leading research funders - the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), and the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)–in a public-private collaboration to accelerate progress on reversing the epidemic of overweight and obesity among U.S. youth.