About Q-Calls: Strategies for Better Pediatric Care Q-Calls are 60-90 minute informative and interactive phone conferences led by nationally recognized experts in their field. The purpose of Q-Calls is to disseminate information to the healthcare community about NICHQ's Bold Agenda for Improving Children's Healthcare set by Dr. Charles Homer.

The NICHQ Childhood Obesity Action Network invites you to the second National Congress on Childhood Obesity, a milestone in the ongoing campaign to end the epidemic. Learn more about treating childhood obesity, exchange ideas and gain inspiration from your colleagues from around the country. Policymakers, practitioners, healthcare educators and other active leaders will convene to discuss approaches, review successes and analyze barriers to bring solution to light. Together we can reduce the prevalence of childhood obesity.

The Childhood Obesity Action Network is a new approach to improving child health by improving children’s health care. The goal of the Action Network is to stop the rise and eliminate disparities in rates of childhood obesity.