The Healthy Active Living and Obesity Research Group (HALO) was established in 2007 in response to the escalating obesity crisis and the increasing complexity of related co-morbidities. Today the HALO team consists of 16 staff (including 6 researchers), a childhood obesity clinical team (Centre for Healthy Active Living), 12 graduate students, and many community volunteers. Since its inception in 2007, HALO has received over $8.4 million in research funding; produced more than 342 peer-reviewed publications; has given more than 696 scholarly presentations locally, nationally and internationally; and secured more than 1 billion media impressions!