The five-year-old body, set up to gather evidence on how to improve health and reduce health inequalities, will be merged with the National Institute of Clinical Excellence, which provides best-practice guidelines on treatments, in order to create a new organisation.
But Tam Fry, chair of the Child Growth Foundation, warned that the two organisations performed significantly different roles.
A spokesman from the HDA, which manages the Healthy Schools initiative, said it would be "business as usual" until "at least" the end of the financial year in March 2005.
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