Apache Healthy Stores

Location: White Mountain and San Carlos Apache Reservations, Arizona, USA

Status: The Apache Healthy Stores intervention began July 2003 and will continue for one year. Each of the project phases will last for approximately 6-8 weeks.

Funder: USDA

Baltimore Healthy Stores

Location: Baltimore, Maryland

Status: The Baltimore Healthy Stores research team completed the formative research in Spring 2003. A pilot program in began in East Baltimore in March 2004.

Funder: Formative research funded by the Center for Livable Future and the Center for Adolescent Health. Feasibility trial funding is pending.

Zhiiwaapenewin Akino’maagewin: Teaching to Prevent Diabetes (ZA: TPD) Project

Locations: Feasibility study in 7 First Nations in Northwest Ontario, Canada. Expanded trial in Northwest Ontario First Nations and Michigan Tribes.

Status: ZA:TPD Feasibility study Round 1 began in September 2005. Each phase will last 6-8 weeks. Recruitment for an expanded trial began in January 2006. For more information see our Expanded Trial Information for Communities page.

Funding: American Diabetes Association and Canadian Institutes of Health Research

Healthy Foods Hawai'i

Location: Hawai'i islands

Status: Joel Gittelsohn, PhD, will lead the Hawaii Healthy Stores project as part of a multi-disciplinary program, the Healthy Living in the Pacific- Healthy Pacific Child Program, being led by Rachel Novotny, PhD, of the University of Hawaii.

Funding: USDA

Republic of the Marshall Islands

Location: Majuro atoll, Republic of the Marshall Islands

Status: A 3-month pilot intervention program was implemented in 12 large and small stores on Majuro atoll in 2000. This intervention informed the healthy stores programs that followed (listed above).