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February State-of-the-Science Webinar


Promoting Healthy Weight for Children - Focusing on Population-Level Preventive Strategies and Equity


Date: February 10th @ 9am PT/12pm ET


Presenter: Steven L. Gortmaker, PhD, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston


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Angie L Cradock, ScD, MPE, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston.

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Assessing young children’s fruit and vegetable intake: Research and application of VeggieMeter, Early Childhood


State Legislation Related to School Nutrition: Predictors of Bill Passage From 2010–2019, School Wellness


Discussion on Lancet Commission report for clinical obesity, Pediatric Obesity Health Services Research


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

Food and Nutrition Security

Bremer, A. A., Zenk, S. N., Pasiakos, S. M., & Langevin, H. M. (2024). A broader perspective on nutrition research: the rationale for integrating the entire continuum of human nutrition. The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.


Stein, R., Finnie, R. K. C., Harmon, S., Peng, Y., Pritchard, C., Vecsey, H., Emmons, K. M., Hargarten, S., Simon, M. A., Blanck, H. M., Harris, D., Bellows, L., Colemafn-Jensen, A., Fleischhacker, S., Koenings, M. M., Odoms-Young, A., Seligman, H. K., Grant, C., & Powell, A. (2024). Impact of Fruit and Vegetable Incentive Programs on Food Insecurity, Fruit and Vegetable Consumption, and Health Outcomes: A Community Guide Systematic Review. American Journal of Preventive Medicine.


Healthy Food Retail

Mui, Y., Winkler, M. R., Hunt, S. L., Gittelsohn, J., & Tracy, M. (2025). Simulated retail food environments: A literature review of systems science approaches to advance equity in access to healthy diets. Obesity Reviews.


Implementation Science

Houghtaling, B., Pradhananga, N., Holston, D., Cater, M., & Balis, L. (2025). A Mixed Method Evaluation of Practitioners’ Perspectives on Implementation Strategies for Healthy Eating and Active Living Policy, Systems, and Environmental Changes. Journal of Public Health Management & Practice.

NEWS & UPDATES

Food Service Director - More students receive free meals at school as CEP participation continues to rise


U.S FDA - FDA to Revoke Authorization for the Use of Red No. 3 in Food and Ingested Drugs

RESOURCES

FRAC - Community Eligibility: The Key to Hunger-Free Schools School Year 2023–2024

WEBINARS & EVENTS

FRAC - Summer Meals: Planning and Preparing for Summer 2025, 1/30 @ 3pm ET


International Food Policy Research Institute - School Meals in the 21st Century - Emerging evidence and future directions, 1/28 @ 9:30am ET


NCCOR - Connect & Explore - Understanding Weight Stigma: Impacts on Families and Youth, 1/27 at 1pm ET


NIH Office of Dietary Supplements (ODS) - Whole Person Health and the Nutrition Continuum (webinar), 2/19 @ 11am ET

EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES

California Department of Food and Agriculture - Lead for the Resilient Food Systems Infrastructure Program (RFSI)


California Department of Public Health - Special Assistant to the Assistant Public Health Officer, deadline 2/3


Chef Ann Foundation - Chief Strategy Officer


FAO - Agrifood Systems Policy Specialist


Feed Black Futures - Food Justice Organizer


FHI360 - Technical Advisor, Nutrition


Food and Agriculture Organization of the United States - Programme Officer, deadline 2/6


Friends of the Earth - Program Resource Specialist


The James Irvine Foundation - Program Officer


PHI - Senior Micronutrients Advisor


Project Bread - Bilingual Senior Nutrition Education Coordinator


Share Our Strength - Senior Research Manager

State of Illinois Department of Human Services - Bureau Chief (Bureau of Family Nutrition), deadline 1/31


University of Arizona - Associate Professor of Practice


University of California, Agriculture and Natural Resources - Director of the Nutrition Policy Institute, deadline extended to 2/16


University of Hawai'i at Manoa - Assistant Professor (Human Nutrition)


University of Illinois, Chicago - Associate Dean for Research - School of Public Health


University of Illinois, Chicago - Tenure-Track, Open Rank, Nutrition


University of New Hampshire - Lecturer of Culinary Nutrition


World Central Kitchen - Corporate and Foundation Relations Manager

FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES

Department of Agriculture - Local Food for Schools and Child Care Cooperative Agreement Program (LFSCC), deadline 4/30


Health Care by Food - Funding Food is Medicine RFP, deadline 3/11


NIH - Time-Sensitive Evaluation of Policies Affecting Health Behaviors and Chronic Disease Risk (NOFO)


RWJF - Systems for Action: Community-Led Systems Research to Address Systemic Racism (Call for Proposals)

OTHER OPPORTUNITIES

Gus Schumacher Nutrition Incentive Program - Nutrition Incentive 2025 RFA, deadline 4/15/25


PHI - CCORE Transformative Leadership Cohort for BIPOC Racial Equity Practitioners


Tufts University - Food is Medicine 101: Translating Evidence to Action (Continuing Education Course)

STUDENTS & EARLY CAREER

ASPHN - Student Public Health Nutrition Networking Event, 1/28 @ 6pm ET


The National Program Office (NPO) - Health and Aging Policy Fellowship, deadline 2/15


NIH - 2025 NIH Office of Science Policy Summer Internship Program, deadline 2/28


Robert Wood Johnson Foundation - Healthy Policy Research Scholars


Root Cause Coalition - Advocacy and Research Intern


Tufts - Postdoctoral Fellow Position in Cost-Effectiveness of Food is Medicine Interventions to Improve Diet and Reduce Cardiometabolic Diseases


University of Kentucky - Value Chain Coordination Postdoc

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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 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.