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From the Coordinating Center
State-of-the-Science:
Food is Medicine in 2023
September 11 @ 9am PT/12pm ET
Hear from our panel of speakers:

Caree Cotwright, PhD, RDN
Director of Nutrition Security and Health Equity, USDA

Hilary Seligman, MD, MAS
Professor, University of California, San Francisco

Diane Harris, PhD, MPH, CHES
Senior Health Scientist and Team Lead, Healthy Food Environments, CDC, DNPAO

Passcode: 610909
Meeting ID: 910 5393 6229

Missed a State-of-the-Science? All past recordings can be found here.
Upcoming Work Group Meetings

September topics include:

BIPOC perspectives of Food Policy Councils, Food Policy Councils WG

Psychology of behavior change and food purchasing behaviors, Food Security WG

Preliminary Results of a Scoping Review, Food Service Guidelines WG

Updates to the Dollar Store Academic Network, Healthy Food Retail WG

A Novel Policy Alignment and Enhancement Process to Improve Sustainment of School-Based Physical Activity Programming, School Wellness WG

Surgical Childhood Obesity Treatment, Pediatric Obesity Health Services Research WG

And More!

Information about upcoming Work Group meetings can be found here.

Click here to listen to all past webinar recordings.
Drinking Water Work Group Fellow Opportunities
Work Group Fellow
The Drinking Water Work Group is seeking a fellow (PhD or doctoral student) to provide work group management support. Responsibilities would include managing meeting logistics, assisting in organizing meeting agendas and notes, and arranging guest speakers for group meetings. It would also entail managing potential projects emerging from the group. A $1000 stipend is available.

Water in Schools Implementation Toolkit Project Fellows
As part of the NOPREN Drinking Water Work Group Water in Schools Implementation Toolkit Project, we are looking for two project fellows to support literature reviews, policy scans and product development tasks related to our work group project from September 2023 - August 2024. The work group project fellows will assist key collaborators with knowledge of drinking water, educational policy and programs, and implementation approaches in conducting a search of existing materials to inform the update and development of a drinking water in school policy implementation toolkit. A stipend of $2000 per fellow is available for this opportunity.

To read more about these positions, click here. Interested applicants should contact Angie Cradock for more information. Note DWWG Student Fellow Position in the Subject Line.
HER NOPREN Summer Speaker Series for Students
Virtual Poster Session Now Live!

As part of the HER NOPREN Summer Speaker Series, six students were selected to develop a poster highlighting their summer research or public health nutrition practicum experience. Topics include sugar-sweetened beverage taxes, household food sourcing and food security, food is medicine interventions, healthy food marketing, universal school meals, and federal nutrition assistance programs. Click here to see all the work featured in our virtual poster session.

Click here to read the abstracts from all of the students featured in our virtual presentation and poster session.

Missed the HER NOPREN Summer Speaker Series for Students? You can find the full recordings and slides here.
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
COVID-19
Mooney, A. C., Jackson, K. E., Hamad, R., Fernald, L. C. H., Hoskote, M., & Gosliner, W. (2023). Experiences of distress and gaps in government safety net supports among parents of young children during the COVID-19 pandemic: A qualitative study. BMC Public Health, 23(1), 1099.

Rauzon, S., Hewawitharana, S. C., Esaryk, E. E., Thompson, H. R., Whetstone, L., Cordon, I., & Woodward-Lopez, G. M. (2023). Parent perceptions of changes in eating behavior during COVID-19 of school-aged children from Supplemental Assistance Program Education (SNAP-Ed) eligible households in California. Preventive Medicine Reports, 35, 102365.

Woodward-Lopez, G., Esaryk, E. E., Hewawitharana, S. C., Kao, J., Talmage, E., & Rider, C. D. (2023). Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Education reductions during COVID-19 may have exacerbated health inequities. SSM - Population Health, 23, 101471.
NEWS & UPDATES
RESOURCES
WEBINARS & EVENTS

Consumer Federation of America - National Food Policy Conference, 9/12/23


Hunger Solutions Institute at Auburn University - SNAP Healthy Eating Incentives Research Workshop (in-person), 10/11/23-10/12/23:
We welcome researchers with current interests in programs such as GusNIP or local/retailer-specific SNAP healthy eating incentive programs. Workshop attendees will present ongoing research work and have time to discuss cross-project collaborations. The workshop will be in Auburn (AL), which is within easy reach of the Atlanta airport. All travel, lodging and food for workshop attendees will be covered by a USDA conference grant. If you are interested, please email Joel Cuffey at Auburn University (cuffey@auburn.edu) and include a brief abstract of the SNAP incentive-related research you would like to present.
FEDERAL & STATE UPDATES & REPORTS
EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES

Congressional Hunger Center - Program Associate, Bill Emerson National Hunger Fellowship, deadline 9/1/23

Consumer Federation of America - Administrative and Advocacy Associate

Emory University - Faculty Position, Department of Behavioral, Social, and Health Education Sciences

Farming Hope - Culinary Director, deadline 8/31/23

Intertribal Agricultural Council - Multiple positions

Makoce Agricultural Department - Food Systems Institute Director

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition - Research and Policy Analyst

NC State Extension - Multiple positions, Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program

Oregon State University - Project Coordinator, Crop and Soil Sciences, deadline 9/12/23

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill - Global Food Research Program Project Manager, deadline 8/29/23

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill - Soc/Clin Research Specialist - Journey

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill - Triple Negative Breast Cancer Program Manager, deadline 9/1/23
FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES
FRAC - Request for Proposals, Equitable Access in the Child Nutrition Programs Project
OTHER OPPORTUNITIES
Fogarty Center for Global Health Studies - Request for Proposals, Case studies to advance research on climate change adaptation strategies and their impact on public health, deadline 10/16/23

Food and Nutrition Service - Request for Comments, Food Distribution Programs: Improving Access and Parity, deadline 10/13/23

International Agriculture Council - Request for Proposals, IAC 2023 Annual Conference
STUDENT & EARLY CAREER SECTION
Cornell University - NYC Research Assistant: Research Aide IV (3 positions)

HSS - Nutrition Policy Fellowship, deadline 10/2/23

Makoce Agricultural Department - Policy and Research Intern

National Association of State Departments of Agriculture - Spring 2024 Stephen Haterius Student Agriculture Leadership Program, deadline 10/31/23

Nutrition Policy Institute - Communications Fellowship, deadline 9/11/23

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation - Health Policy Fellows


USDA FNS - Student Trainee (Nutrition), deadline 9/5/23
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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.