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Over the last 2+ years, Healthy Eating Research and NOPREN, in collaboration with the COVID-19 work group founder and former co-chair Sheila Fleischhacker and current co-chair Margaret Reed, have developed a weekly digest. To meet the ever-growing demand for these resources, we are excited to share that the HER NOPREN Weekly Digest will now be part of NOPREN News and delivered to your inbox every other Friday.

From the Coordinating Center

NOPREN State-of-the-Science:

September 12 @ 12pm ET

Exploring the Impacts of Federal Food Service Guidelines Panel Session

Amy Warnock, DNPAO CDC: Federal perspective on food service guidelines
Dr. Shafika Abrahams-Gaziano, Tufts University: Implementing federal food service guidelines in worksite cafeterias leads to improved outcomes and cost savings
Case study of local food service guidelines implementation

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Passcode: 610909

Meeting ID: 910 5393 6229

Work Group Meetings & Updates

To learn more about or join any of the NOPREN Work Groups, click here.

Information about upcoming Work Group meetings can be found here.

Student Summer Series: Virtual Poster Session Now Live!

As part of the HER NOPREN Summer Series, seven students were selected to develop a poster highlighting their summer research or public health nutrition practicum experience. Topics include federal nutrition assistance programs, food service guidelines, healthy food access in the charitable food system, school wellness and more. 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 weekly digest is a joint product of NOPREN and HER.

Please send any relevant resources to NOPREN@ucsf.edu or click the following link for possible inclusion in a future digest.

The content in this digest are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent the official position of CDC, DHHS, or HER.

PUBLICATIONS

Budd Nugent, N., Ridberg, R., Fricke, H., Byker Shanks, C., Stotz, S., Jones Chung, A., Shin, S., Yaroch, A., Akers, M., Lowe, R., George, C., Thomas, K., & Seligman, H. (2022). Food sovereignty, health, and produce prescription programs: A case study in two rural tribal communities. Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, 11(3), 177–196. https://doi.org/10.5304/jafscd.2022.113.014.

Cadenhead JW, McCarthy JE, Nguyen TTT, Rodriguez M, Koch PA. (2022). Qualitative Study of Participation Facilitators and Barriers for Emergency School Meals and Pandemic Electronic Benefits (P-EBT) in an Urban Setting during COVID-19. Nutrients, 14(16), 3358. https://doi.org/10.3390/nu14163358.

Nikolaus, C., Hebert, L., Zamora-Kapoor, A., & Sinclair, K. (2002). Risk of Food Insecurity in Young Adulthood and Longitudinal Changes in Cardiometabolic Health: Evidence from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health. The Journal of Nutrition, 152(8),1944–1952. https://doi.org/10.1093/jn/nxac055.

Obbagy, J., Raghavan, R., English, L., Spill, M., Bahnfleth, C., Bates, M., Callahan, E., Chong Cole, N., Güngör, D., Kim, J., Kingshipp, B., Nevins, J., Scinto-Madonich, S., Spahn, J., Venkatramanan, S., & Stoody, E. (2002). Strengthening Research that Answers Nutrition Questions of Public Health Importance: Leveraging the Experience of the USDA Nutrition Evidence Systematic Review Team. The Journal of Nutrition, 152(8), 1823–1830. https://doi.org/10.1093/jn/nxac140.

NEWS, RESOURCES, AND GENERAL UPDATES

CDC - Breastfeeding Among U.S. Children Born 2012-2019, CDC National Immunization Survey

Center on Budget and Policy Priorities - SNAP benefit adjustments will help low-income households cope with food inflation.

FRAC - Pandemic EBT: Recommendations for a permanent nationwide summer EBT program.

Healthy Eating Research - Nutrition evaluation of the emergency meals-to-you program

Bread for the World - Bread celebrates the introduction of the "Healthy Meals, Healthy Kids Act."

The Center for American Progress - The United States can end hunger and food insecurity for millions of people.

Cision PR Newswire - Operation good food & beverages address growing health crisis through launch of youth-led movement counteracting unhealthy food marketing.

Civil Eats - Farm to school efforts just got a big influx of cash. Will it help more schools get on board?

Food Corps - Report: Nourishing futures for every student.

K-12 DIVE - 3 best practices to expand school meal access.

NNY 360 - School Nutrition Association says districts will continue to face meal challenges in the coming year.

Time - School meal prices are rising - and that could leave kids hungry.

The Wall Street Journal - Pandemic-era free school meals expires, leaving some districts seeking solutions.

WHIO - California first state to offer free meals to public, charter schools.

WEBINARS & EVENTS

SNAP-Ed Needs Assessment - State Level Approach, 8/23/22 @ 2pm ET

Healthy Eating Research and the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics Foundation: Health Drinks, Health Kids Webinars

Bottoms Up: Helping Parents Make Informed Child Hydration Choices, 8/23/22 @ 1pm ET
Milk, Plant-Based Alternatives, Flavored Milk, Toddler Milk - A Deeper Dive into the Science and Resulting Recommendations, 8/30/22 @ 1pm ET
SSBs, Juice, and Non-Nutritive Sweeteners - A Deeper Dive into the Science and the Resulting Recommendations, 9/6/22 @ 1pm ET

NIFA - The Development of New Measures to Complement the U.S. Household Food Security Survey Module, 8/30/22 @ 1pm ET

NCCOR Connect & Explore Webinar Series - Reframing Childhood Obesity: Cultural Insights on Nutrition, Weight, and Food Systems, 9/7/22 @ 2pm ET

Digital Physical Activity & Diet (dPAD) Collaborative - Fall Symposium, 9/8/22-9/9/22

DREAMS-CDTR - Pouring Rights Contracts at Public Universities: How are beverage companies incentivizing universities to maximize sales of sugar-sweetened beverages?, 9/19/22 @ 6pm ET

School Nutrition Association (SNA) - School Nutrition Industry Conference, 1/15/23-1/17/23

FEDERAL UPDATES

S.4486 - Health Equity and Accountability Act of 2022

USDA Nutrition Assistance Program: Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic

H.R. 8707 - To provide increased assistance for farmers markets and farmers market nutrition programs

USDA - Allocation of supply chain assistance funds to alleviate supply chain disruptions in the school meal programs.

USDA - Developing new measures to assess factors associated with food insecurity in the U.S.

EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES

Congressional Hunger Center - Multiple Positions

Harvard Law School Food Law & Policy Clinic - Clinical Instructor

NIFA - Multiple Positions

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition - Policy Specialist

Gretchen Swanson Center for Nutrition - Health Services/Healthy Policy Research Scientist

FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES

OTHER OPPORTUNITIES

Healthy Eating Research - Special Solicitation: Evaluating the Implementation and Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic-Driven Policies and Programs to Improve Children’s Health and Well-Being

USDA - Equitable Access in Child Nutrition Programs

USDA Feedback Requested - the USDA is requesting feedback from stakeholders on Kosher and Halal foods for the Emergency Assistance Food Program (TEFAP). Feedback can be shared with your State Agency or sent to USDAFoods@usda.gov.

STUDENT & EARLY CAREER SECTION

Indiana University School of Public Health-Bloomington - Post doctoral fellow

CDC - ORISE Added Sugars Reduction Fellowship

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This 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, or DHHS