SHARE:  
From the Coordinating Center

November State-of-the-Science Webinar


NIH Office of Nutrition Research Updates and Priorities


Date: November 18th @ 9am PT/12pm ET


Presenter: Andrew Bremer, MD, PhD, MAS,

Director, Office of Nutrition Research, NIH

Passcode: 610909
Meeting ID: 910 5393 6229

Missed a State-of-the-Science?
All past recordings can be found here.
Add to My Calendar

Upcoming Work Group Meetings


Information about upcoming Work Group meetings can be found here.

Click here to listen to all past webinar recordings.

Nominations for the HER/NOPREN WIC LC Research Impact Award 2024


We are excited to announce the call for nominations for the 2024 HER/NOPREN WIC LC Research Impact Award! This award invites nominations from everyone, including self-nominations, to recognize the impactful research on WIC accomplished this year. For full details, please refer to the attached announcement.


We highly encourage you to nominate WIC-related research articles published in peer-reviewed academic journals in the last year through the following form: Nomination Form. Feel free to share this announcement with others who may be interested. The nomination deadline is December 16, 2024


To view past awardees, please visit the WIC Learning Collaborative webpage

NOPREN HER Resource Digest
The bi-weekly digest is a joint product of NOPREN and HER.*
PUBLICATIONS

Food and Nutrition Security

Chelius, C., Strochlic, R., Hewawitharana, S. C., & Gosliner, W. (2024). Opportunities and Challenges of California’s Fruit and Vegetable Electronic Benefit Transfer Pilot Project at Farmers’ Markets: A Qualitative Study with Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Shoppers and Farmers’ Market Staff. Nutrients, 16(19), 3388.


DeNunzio, M., Houghtaling, B., Kraak, V., Maaz Gardezi, Serrano, E., & Misyak, S. (2024). Food retailer actions toward the National Strategy on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health to promote nutrition security: Applicability of the Business Impact Assessment-Obesity as a monitoring tool. Translational Behavioral Medicine.


Reimold, A. E., Hall, M. G., Ng, S. W., Taillie, L. S., Ribisl, K. M., Charles, E. L., & Golden, S. D. (2024b). “The dollar store got it going on”: Understanding Food Shopping Patterns and Policy Preferences Among Dollar Store Shoppers with Low Incomes. Current Developments in Nutrition, 8(10), 104457–104457.


Thomas, O. W., Liang, L., Getzoff, E., Silver, S., Peters, J., & Fuentes, L. (2024). Enhancing cultural humility in food is medicine services: A mixed-methods investigation of patient food and dietary preferences. Healthcare, 12(3), 100749–100749.


Healthy Beverages

Davis, J. N., Goon, S., Gouck, J., Solar, S. E., Mancini, S., Ortega, A. M., Krieger, J., & Falbe, J. (2024). An Inventory of Proposed and Enacted Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Policies at the State, Local, and Tribal Levels in the United States, 2014‒2023. American Journal of Public Health, e1–e10.


School Meals

Busey, E. A., Chamberlin, G., Mardin, K., Perry, M., Taillie, L. S., Dillman, F. R., & Popkin, B. M. (2024). National policies to limit nutrients, ingredients, or categories of concern in school meals: a global scoping review. Current Developments in Nutrition, 8(10), 104456–104456.

NEWS & UPDATES

Health Affairs - A Recipe For Successful Food is Medicine Programs: Food Plus People


New York Times - In a Bid to Feed More Families, WIC Diversifies Its Menu


Nutrition Insight - National School Lunch Week: FRAC celebrates US meal program for students


Salon - More families are taking on debt to pay for groceries

RESOURCES

HER - Evidence-Based Recommendations to Mitigate Harms from Digital Food Marketing to Children Ages 2-17


FRAC - Promising Practices for Ensuring Kinship/Grandfamily Access to SNAP


NPI - Expanded Shopping Options Needed to Improve WIC Participants' Shopping Experience


NPI - WIC App Modifications Needed to Improve WIC Participants' Shopping Experience

WEBINARS & EVENTS

HHS - Food is Medicine Briefing (Webinar recording)


NIH - Global Food Security: Research to Inform Evidence-based Policies and Practices, 11/18 @ 12pm ET

University of Kentucky - Food As Health Annual Symposium, 3/11/25

FEDERAL, STATE, & LOCAL UPDATES & REPORTS

USDA

FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES

USDA - School Food System Transformation Grant, deadline 12/13

EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES

Agricultural Marketing Service - Social Science Analyst


American Diabetes Association - Manager, Nutrition and Wellness 


Arizona State University - Assistant Professor Position in Sustainable Food Systems


Arizona State University - Graduate Student Support Coordinator


Center for Food As Medicine - Postdoctoral Researcher


Department of Agriculture (Children's Nutrition Research Center) - Research Nutritionist


Department of Health and Human Services - Health Scientist, Child Health Bureau, deadline 11/1


Duke Sanford World Food Policy Center - Research Scientist


FRAC - Deputy Director of Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Woman, Infants, and Children (WIC)


Greater Chicago Food Depository - Child Nutrition Lead


The Ohio State University - Tenue Track Faculty (Medical Dietetics, Health and Rehabilitation Sciences)

Tufts University Friedman School of Nutrition - Senior Project Coordinator


UC ANR - Associate Director for Sustainable Food Economies - UC Sustainable Agriculture Research & Education Program (UC SAREP) - Academic Coordinator III (24-10), deadline 11/18


Union of Concerned Scientists - Policy Director


University of Arkansas - Senior Managing Director of Indigenous Food and Agriculture Initiative, deadline 11/25


University of California Davis - Assistant Professor of Nutrition and Immunology, deadline 11/3


University of California Los Angeles - Open Rank Professor in Food, Nutrition and Public Health


University of Georgia - Assistant Professor of Nutritional Neuroscience


University of North Carolina - Tenured Track Faculty (Nutrition Department)


Westat - Principle Research Associate (Food and Nutrition)

OTHER OPPORTUNITIES

American Society for Nutrition - Championing Mid-Career Success: New Initiatives and Enhanced Recognition Programs of the ASN and ASN Foundation, application deadlines 12/9


Call for Open Papers - Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development Vol. 13 No. 4 (2024): Open Call Papers on a Wide Range of Food Systems Topics


FRAC - WIC Community Innovation and Outreach (CIAO) Senior Technical Assistance Mentor


Nutrition Incentive Hub 2025 NTAE National Convening - Submit Session Proposals, deadline 11/22

STUDENTS & EARLY CAREER

Center for Science in the Public Interest - 2025 Spring Legislative Affairs Internship


Center for Science in the Public Interest - 2025 Spring Program Evaluation Internship


Congressional Hunger Center - Emerson Fellowship


Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health - Bloomberg American Health Fellowship, deadline 12/1/24


North Carolina State University - Early Care & Education Extension Postdoc Scholar


ORISE - Nutrition Policy and Promotion Fellowship


ORISE - CDC Social Determinant of Health Evaluation Fellowship


Robert Wood Johnson Foundation - Health Policy Fellows, deadline 11/5


Scaling Up Nutrition - Communications Intern

Visit our website
Twitter  
Know someone who is interested in joining the NOPREN listserv? Click here to sign up!
https://nopren.ucsf.edu | @NOPRENnetwork

*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 U48DP006864 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.