From the Coordinating Center

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 August topics include: Nutritional Quality of School Milk, School Wellness WG Play Every Day Campaign & Serving Healthy Drinks to Alaska Families, Drinking Water WG And More! 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, August 9th, 4-5 PM ET COVID-19 Policy Implications for USDA Child Nutrition Programs and SNAP Speakers: Carolyn Vega and Anne Konarski (Share our Strength) Moderator: Jessica Soldavini (UNC Chapel Hill, HER NOPREN COVID-19 Food & Nutrition Work Group Fellow) This session will discuss policies and USDA waivers related to SNAP and child nutrition programs, including school and summer meals, during the COVID-19 pandemic. We will discuss lessons learned and policies that have been passed since the waivers and COVID-19 policies expired that have allowed some of the changes to continue as well as implications from COVID-19 policies and waivers for future policy change. Register Here Check out past recordings here, including our July 26th session on Making Water Win: Policies to Build Quality & Access.

NOPREN HER Resource Digest

The bi-weekly digest is a joint product of NOPREN and HER. Send relevant resources to NOPREN@ucsf.edu or click here for inclusion in a future digest.

PUBLICATIONS

Early Childhood National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine. (2023). Research with Pregnant and Lactating Persons: Mitigating Risk and Liability: Proceedings of a Workshop–in Brief. Washington, D.C.: The National Academies Press.  Food and Nutrition Security Hamad, R., Yeb, J., Jackson, K., Gosliner, W., & Fernald, L. C. H. (2023). Potential mechanisms linking poverty alleviation and health: An analysis of benefit spending among recipients of the U.S. earned income tax credit. BMC Public Health, 23(1), 1385. School Wellness Cohen, J. FW., Richardson, S., March, W. W., Gosliner, W., & Hauser, R. (2023). Phthalates, adipates, BPA, and pesticides in school meals. Environmental Research, 116632. Tsai, M. M., Olarte, D. A., Hager, E. R., Cohen, J. F. W., & Turner, L. (2023). Prevalence of Recess and Supportive Practices at a Nationwide Sample of Public Elementary Schools in the United States. Journal of School Health.

NEWS & UPDATES

Center on Budget and Policy Priorities - About 500,000 Adults Will Soon Lose SNAP Due to Return of Work-Reporting Requirements; Another 750,000 Older Adults Newly at Risk Healio - Food insecurity raises odds for asthma, wheezing with exercise in children MarketWatch - As food prices rise in June, analysts warn of a ‘tipping point’ for Americans Washington Post - Opinion: A Radical Idea: Just give kids lunch WSAV - SNAP changes could impact college students at risk of hunger

RESOURCES

FRAC - Hunger Doesn’t Take a Vacation: Summer Nutrition Status Report 2023 Indigenous Food and Agriculture Initiative - Facilitating True Nation-to-Nation Dialogue: A Guide to Effective and Meaningful Consultation with Tribal Governments Urban Institute Data Tool - Does SNAP Cover the Cost of a Meal in Your County?

WEBINARS & EVENTS

Metropolitan State University - Nutrition Diversity Conference, 9/8/23 @ 6a PT USDA & HSS - Third Meeting of the 2025 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee, 9/12/23 - 9/23/23, registration opens 8/10/23 @ 10a ET

FEDERAL UPDATES & REPORTS

Congress - H.R.4149: OH SNAP, Close the Fruit and Vegetable Gap Act of 2023 USDA Blog - Nutrition Security: Building on Our Work to Date and Accelerating Progress USDA NIFA Report- Annual Report FY 2022 USDA Press Release Biden-Harris Administration Announces Investments in Urban Agriculture, Food and Market Access through President Biden’s Investing in America Agenda USDA Invests in Research, Extension and Education at 1890 Land-grant Universities USDA Solicits Nominations to the Tribal Advisory Committee U.S. Government Accountability Office Report - School Meals: USDA Should Address Challenges in Its “Foods in Schools” Program USDA Report 2022 SNAP-Ed Cross Regional Success, Outcome, and Impact Report Cost of School Meals and Households’ Difficulty Paying for Expenses: Evidence From the Household Pulse Survey The White House - PCAST Welcomes Public Input on Nutrition Research

EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES

Agricultural Marketing Service - Legal Administrative Specialist (Senior Regulatory Policy Specialist), deadline 7/31/23 Berkeley Food Institute - Executive Director, deadline 8/10/23 Chef Ann Foundation - Multiple positions Evidence Action - Senior Associate, Nutrition Feed the Children - Director of Monitoring and Evaluation Feed the Children - U.S. Program Specialist FRAC - SNAP Director Global Health Advocacy Incubator - Director, Food and Nutrition Research Global Health Advocacy Incubator - Director, Food Policy Program Lunch Assist, Inc. - Multiple positions Mathematica - Child Nutrition Policy Senior Researcher Mathematica - Executive Director, Health Evaluation & Business Director Public Health Institute - Nutrition Advisor The Network for Public Health Law - Deputy Director – Policy, Equity, and Community Impact The Network for Public Health Law - Program Coordinator, National Office Socially Responsible Agriculture Project - Impacted Communities Coordinator University of Connecticut, Rudd Center for Food Policy and Health - Research Program Coordinator, deadline 7/31/23 WW - Emerging Science Researcher

FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES

USDA - Rapid Response to Extreme Weather Events Across Food and Agricultural Systems (A1712)

OTHER OPPORTUNITIES

Food & Nutrition Conference & Expo - Student Host Application, deadline 8/2/23 National Academies of Science, Engineering, & Medicine - New Voices Application, deadline 8/10/23

STUDENT & EARLY CAREER SECTION

Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics Foundation - Communications and Dissemination Fellowship, deadline 8/22/23 CDC - Fellowship in Physical Activity and Health Branch: Policy Analysis and Evaluation to Promote Active Communities, deadline 8/30/23 CDC - Implementation Science Fellowship in Early Care and Education (ECE), deadline 8/21/23 Community Action Partnership Orange County - OC Program Produce Intern Earthjustice - Law Clerkship, Summer 2024, deadline 9/4/23 FDA - Office of Global Policy and Strategy Fellowship, deadline 10/31/23 Federation of American Scientists - Food Supply Chain Impact Fellowship, deadline 8/7/23 Groceries to Go, NYC DOHMH - Research Assistant/Interviewer NIH - Cancer Prevention Fellowship Program, deadline 8/1/23 Rutgers Cooperative Extension - School Climate Change Corps Member, Department of Family and Community Health Sciences Texas State University - Postdoctoral Scholar in Public Health Nutrition University of Minnesota, School of Public Health - Minnesota Obesity Prevention Fellowship, deadline 8/14/23 University of Minnesota, School of Public Health - Research on Eating and Activity for Community Health (REACH) USDA - ARS Nutrition Science Fellowship, deadline 9/1/23

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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.