Overweight and Obesity

Funded States

CDC's Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity (DNPAO) currently funds 25 states to address the problems of obesity and other chronic diseases through statewide efforts to do the following:

Develop and maintain a program infrastructure capable of positioning the state health department in a leadership role for coordinated statewide nutrition, physical activity, and obesity strategies.
Convene and lead a planning process to develop a state plan for nutrition, physical activity, and obesity (state plan).
Implement a state plan in collaboration with partners.
Support and develop capacity for surveillance to monitor the prevalence of overweight, obesity, nutrition quality, physical activity levels, and the program impact to change overweight and obesity related behaviors, particularly nutrition and physical activity.
Evaluate progress toward meeting the following objectives: the state plan, the annual implementation plan, the annual cooperative agreement work plan, and the state partnerships.
Annually submit success stories and lessons learned to CDC.

Click on the map below for contact information for states funded by the CDC's Nutrition, Physical Activity and Obesity Program (NPAO). To read about specific interventions, go to State Stories.