The Healthy Migrant Families Initiative: development of a culturally competent obesity prevention intervention for African migrants

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Funding Acknowledgements

This work was supported by the Victorian Health Promotion Foundation (VicHealth) (2008-0107) and the Australian Research Council (DP1094661). The authors thank the African Review Panel and steering committee members for guiding the project and African bilingual workers who helped with participant recruitment and data collecting in the pilot studies. We also thank the African community members who volunteered their time to participate in the pilot studies. Prof Andre Renzaho is supported by an ARC Future Fellowship (FT110100345).