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State-of-the-Science will be on Summer Break this August Please join us on September 11 @ 9am PT/12pm ET for a presentation on The State of Food is Medicine: Challenges & Opportunities Missed our July session on the Housing Crisis and Food Assistance with Carl Gershenson? You can find this session and all past SOS recordings here. Upcoming Work Group Meetings July topics include: Early Childhood Student Research Spotlight Presentations, Early Childhood WG Food Insecurity, Nutrition, and Adolescent Growth & Development Food Security WG Information about upcoming Work Group meetings can be found here. Click here to listen to all past webinar recordings.

HER NOPREN Summer Speaker Series

Join us for the next session in the HER NOPREN Summer Speaker Series for Students Wednesday, July 26th, 4-5 PM ET Making Water Win: Policies to Build Quality and Access This session will provide an introduction to drinking water policies and programs to improve physical access, affordability, and drinking water quality that will be needed to ensure the integrity of drinking water system, promote health and hygiene, and prepare for future public health challenges. To learn more about the series and listen to past recordings, click here. Register Here Students: Apply to be a presenter by 7/19! HER and NOPREN will be hosting a virtual student presentation session on August 16th from 4-5 pm EST. Selected students will be asked to give a brief, 5-10 minute presentation on a public health nutrition related project or research they worked on over the summer. Students of all levels are encouraged to apply. Students who are not selected to give a virtual presentation may be selected to develop a poster highlighting their work that will be spotlighted on the NOPREN website. Apply here by Wednesday, July 19th

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PUBLICATIONS

Added Sugars Diaz, C., Rezende, L. F. M., Sabag, A., Lee, D. H., Ferrari, G., Giovannucci, E. L., & Rey-Lopez, J. P. (2023). Artificially Sweetened Beverages and Health Outcomes: An Umbrella Review. Advances in Nutrition, 14(4), 710–717. Falbe, J., Musicus, A .A., Sigala, D. M., Roberto, C. A., Solar, S. E., Lemmon, B., Sorscher, S., Nara, D., & Hall, M. G. (2023). Online RCT of Icon Added-Sugar Warning Labels for Restaurant Menus. American Journal of Preventative Medicine, 65(1), 101-111. COVID-19 Ehmke, M., & Restrepo, B. J. (2023) COVID-19 Working Paper: Obesity Prevalence Among U.S. Adult Subpopulations During the First Year of the COVID-19 Pandemic. USDA Economic Research Service. Early Childhood Matias, S.L., Anderson, C.E., & Koleilat, M. (2023) Breastfeeding moderates childhood obesity risk associated with prenatal exposure to excessive gestational weight. Maternal & Child Nutrition. Pérez-Escamilla, R. (2023). Breastfeeding and the Obesity Pandemic. The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 118(1), 1–2. Federal Nutrition Assistance Programs Felix, C., Strochlic, R., Melendrez, B., Tang, H., Wright, S., & Gosliner, W. (2023). Perceptions and Experiences of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) Participants Related to Receiving Food and Nutrition-Related Text Messages Sent Agency-Wide: Findings from Focus Groups in San Diego County, California. Nutrients, 15(12), 2684. Samuel, L. J., Crews, D. C., Swenor, B. K., Zhu, J., Stuart, E. A., Szanton, S. L., Kim, B., Dwivedi, P., Li, Q., Reed, N. S., & Thorpe, R. J., Jr. (2023). Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Access and Racial Disparities in Food Insecurity. JAMA Network Open, 6(6), e2320196. Food Marketing Hall, M. G., Grummon, A. H., Queen, T., Lazard, A. J., Higgins, I. C. A., Richter, A. P. C., & Taillie, L. S. (2023). How pictorial warnings change parents’ purchases of sugar-sweetened beverage for their children: Mechanisms of impact. International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity, 20(1), 76. Nutrition Policy Danielli, S., Ashrafian, H., & Darzi, A. (2023). Healthy city: Global systematic scoping review of city initiatives to improve health with policy recommendations. BMC Public Health, 23(1), 1277. Kiesel, K., Lang, H., & Sexton, R. J. (2023). A New Wave of Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Taxes: Are They Meeting Policy Goals and Can We Do Better? Annual Review of Resource Economics, 15(1). School Wellness Saied T., Cohen J., Clift J., Turner L., Gosliner W., and Schwartz M. (2023) School Food Case Study: United States of America. (Working Paper). London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Research Consortium for SHN, School Meals Coalition. Thompson, H. R., & London, R. A. (2023). Not all fun and games: Disparities in school recess persist, and must be addressed. Preventive Medicine Reports, 35, 102301. Thompson, H. R., Madsen, K. A., Zamek, M., McKenzie, T. L., & Dzewaltowski, D. A. (2023). Implementation of elementary school physical education quantity and quality law through school district audit, feedback, and coaching. The International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity, 20(1), 77.

NEWS & UPDATES

The 74 - Community Eligibility: The Key to Hunger-Free Students or Just a Band-Aid? CDC News - CDC Awards More Than $11 Million to Reduce Disparities in Counties With High Obesity The Center for Law and Social Policy - Congress Must Simplify Confusing SNAP Rules That Contribute to Food Insecurity among Immigrant Families Civil Eats - For Many Kids, a Boost to Summer School Meals Is a ‘Game Changer’ DNPAO - The Insider Fortune Education - How a new federal grant could pay for your MPH degree Gretchen Swanson Center for Nutrition - California nonprofit connects LGBTQIA+ clients with more than nutritious food Healio - Racial disparities among food-insecure households disappear with SNAP participation K-12 Dive - Nutrition education needed to transform health and food practices nationwide USDA Blog - Cultivating Health, Nutrition & Innovation in the Land of Enchantment USDA Press Release - USDA Provides Significant Support for American Producers, School Meal Providers and Emergency Food Operations

RESOURCES

FRAC - Large School District Report: Operating School Nutrition Programs as the Nation Recovers from the Pandemic Nutrition Policy Institute Qualitative Findings from the California Nutrition Incentive Program Evaluation 2020-2022: CNIP participants report positive experiences with the program and support its continuation and expansion School Meals for All: Farm Fresh Food WHO - Taking action to protect children from the harmful impact of food marketing: a child rights-based approach

WEBINARS & EVENTS

FNS NEB and Tribal Affairs Specialists - SNAP-Ed and Tribal Consultations, 7/18/23 @ 12p ET Institute for Research on Poverty - Improving How Poverty Is Measured: A Recommendation To Better Reflect Households' Basic Needs, 7/26/23 @ 11a ET Temple University - Center for Public Health Law Research's 2023 Policy Surveillance Institute, 10/5/23-10/6/23 Temple University - Local Policy Surveillance, 8/8/23 @ 12p ET USAID Nutrition - The "So What": Leveraging Evaluative Data to Adapt SBC Nutrition Programming Workshop, 7/23/23 @ 8a ET

FEDERAL UPDATES & REPORTS

Congressional Research Service - Connecting Older Adults to Information on Benefits and Services Government Accountability Office Report - Hunger and Homelessness: Funding Distribution for Key Programs HHS Report - Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans Midcourse Report: Implementation Strategies for Older Adults

EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES

Catch - Multiple positions Credence Management Solutions - Nutrition Advisor Evidence Action - Senior Associate, Nutrition Johns Hopkins University - Sr. Research Program Coordinator Mathematica - Child Nutrition Policy Senior Researcher Penn State - Program Director School Nutrition Association - Government Affairs & Media Relations Coordinator State of Iowa - Nutrition Consultant, deadline 7/27/23 University of Buffalo. Mobile Market Coalition - Multiple positions

FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES

National Conference on State Legislatures - State Science Policy Fellowship Planning Grant Initiative, deadline 8/4/23

OTHER OPPORTUNITIES

DNPAO - Subscribe to The Insider - News and Updates from the CDC's Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity Healthy Meals Incentives - Recognition Food Awards for School Food Authorities Hunger to Health Collaboratory - Call for Nominations, 2023 H2HC Inagural Innovation Prizes, deadline 7/28/23 National Academies of Science, Engineering, & Medicine - Call for Expert Nominations, Advice for the U.S. Change Research Program, deadline 7/26/23 Temple University - Global Certificate in Legal Epidemiology USDA - Call for Nominations,Tribal Advisory Committee, deadline 8/14/23 WHO - Call for Consultant, Feeding of small and sick children, deadline 7/28/23

STUDENT & EARLY CAREER SECTION

CDC - Implementation Science Fellowship in Early Care and Education (ECE), deadline 8/21/23 CDC - Orise Fellowship CDC's Climate and Health Program, deadline 7/31/23 EPA - Environmental Social Science Research Fellowship on Resilience, Disasters and Waste, deadline 10/27/23 Texas State - Postdoctoral Scholar Pool – College of Applied Arts University of Minnesota, School of Public Health - Minnesota Obesity Prevention (MnOPT) Fellowship, deadline 8/14/23 USDA ARS - Nutrition Science Fellowship, deadline 9/1/23 Wake County Food Security VISTA Program - AmeriCorps VISTA

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This digest is based on a compilation of news services and listservs developed by Sheila Fleischhacker, PhD, JD, RDN during her time as co-chair of the HER NOPREN COVID-19 Food & Nutrition Work Group and operationalized on a weekly basis by HER. The new bi-weekly digest is created by NOPREN and reviewed by Dr. Fleischhacker. The digest is jointly supported by Healthy Eating Research (HER) and the Nutrition and Obesity Policy Research and Evaluation Network (NOPREN). HER is a national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation; NOPREN is supported by Cooperative Agreement Number 5U48DP00498-05 funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity and Prevention Research Centers Program. The findings and conclusions in this publication are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent the official position of HER, CDC, DHHS, or the USDA.