Evaluation of Active Living Research
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Results: Key indicators of ALR’s overall progress confirmed ALR’s success across its three goals: (1) establishing a strong research base: 309 publications filling major knowledge gaps; (2) building an interdisciplinary and diverse field: grantees represented 31 disciplines, with more than one quarter (28%) of investigators having r5 years of experience, of which 39% were people of color; and (3) using research to inform policy and practice: 62 examples, of which slightly more than one half (n1⁄432) resulted in actual policy or practice change.
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