Williams needed a partner, someone with hip-hop credibility, which he knew was essential to get through to inner city children. "That's the power of children, the potential role that children can play within the public health chain of survival," Williams said. Peer-reviewed studies conducted by Williams and colleagues found that immediately after caloric literacy interventions, children changed their food purchases. After reaching tens of thousands of children in New York, Hip Hop Public Health got a shout-out - and a request to collaborate - from the Partnership for a Healthier America, whose ambassador is first lady Michelle Obama.
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