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State-of-the-Science:  Understanding Shifting Consumer Purchasing Trends Impacting Health Date: March 11th @ 9am PT/12pm ET Presenters: Sherry Frey, VP of Total Wellness at NielsenIQ Click here to join via Zoom 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 Meeting Topics  An Interdisciplinary Approach to Community-Engaged Research Surrounding Lead in Drinking Water in the Mississippi Delta, Drinking Water Equity-Focused Implementation Science for Early Childhood Nutrition, Early Childhood A Supermarket Research Partnership, Healthy Food Retail Future Work Group Directions & Current CDC Projects & Tools, Pediatric Obesity Health Services Research Expert Panel: Recruiting Research Participants from Rural Communities, Rural Food Access FRAC School Breakfast and Lunch Report, School Wellness WG And More! Information about upcoming Work Group meetings can be found here.  Click here to listen to all past webinar recordings.

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PUBLICATIONS

Federal Nutrition Assistance Programs Crespo-Bellido, M., Steeves, E. A., Hill, J. L., Kersten, S., & Nitto, A. M. (2024). Vendors’ Perceptions and Experiences with WIC Online Shopping Implementation. Current Developments in Nutrition, 8(2). Onufrak, S. J. (2023). Changes in Policy Supports for Healthy Food Retailers, Farmers Markets, and Breastfeeding Among US Municipalities, 2014–2021: National Survey of Community-Based Policy and Environmental Supports for Healthy Eating and Active Living (CBS-HEAL). Preventing Chronic Disease, 20. Tsai, M. M., Yeb, J., Jackson, K., Gosliner, W., Fernald, L. C. H., & Hamad, R. (2024). Understanding multi-program take-up of safety net programs among California families. AJPM Focus, 100216. Food and Nutrition Security Thomson, J. L., Landry, A. S., & Walls, T. I. (2024). Direct and Indirect Effects of Food and Nutrition Security on Dietary Choice and Healthfulness of Food Choice: Causal Mediation Analysis. Current Developments in Nutrition, 8(2).

NEWS & UPDATES

BNN - Study Reveals SNAP Benefits Could Boost Medication Adherence in Food-Insecure Populations Center on Budget and Policy Priorities - House Agriculture Committee Chairman Proposes Cut in SNAP Benefits, Reversing Bipartisan Directive to Improve the Thrifty Food Plan Food Tank - Examining Dollar Stores: Health, Community, and Food Access HuffPost - Republicans Eye SNAP Junk Food Restrictions In Government Funding Standoff K-12 Dive - States with universal school meal policies see higher participation rates Marketplace - The USDA just approved the first online-only grocer to accept SNAP benefits NBC News - WIC faces a budget shortfall. For millions of women and young children, more than nutrition is at stake. Oaklahoma News - USDA sends letters to Oklahoma, 46 others over poor SNAP benefit efficiency Politico - GOP governors face pressure campaign to feed kids in the summer

RESOURCES

Center on Budget and Policy Priorities - WIC’s Critical Benefits Reach Only Half of Those Eligible FRAC - The State of Healthy School Meals for All: California, Maine, Massachusetts, Nevada, and Vermont National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine: Use of Meta-Analyses in Nutrition Research and Policy: Proceedings of a Workshop Series NIH - Office of Disese Prevention Strategic Plan for Fiscal Years 2024–2028 NOURISH Lab - Impact of Massachusetts’ Healthy School Meals for All Policy on Families

WEBINARS & EVENTS

The Harkin Institute & Drake University - 2024 Harkin on Wellness Symposium, 4/3/24 @ 10a ET Institute for Research on Policy - Interrupting Intergenerational Poverty: New Research and Recommendations for Policy and Practice, 3/20/24 @ 2p ET The White House - Discussion and Consideration for Approval: A Report on Reducing Diet-Related Diseases, 3/14/24 @ 9:10am ET

FEDERAL, STATE, & LOCAL UPDATES & REPORTS

Congress - H.R.7416, Closing the College Hunger Gap Act Congress - S., Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act of 1966 Congress - S.3806, COLAs Don’t Count Act of 2024 Congressional Research Service - Expiration of the 2018 Farm Bill and Extension in 2024 Federal Trade Commission - FTC Challenges Kroger’s Acquisition of Albertsons United States Census Bureau - Household Pulse Survey Phase 4.0 USDA - Disease-related mortality gap is growing between U.S. rural and urban areas USDA - Equity Comission Final Report: Recommendations Made to the U.S. Department of Agriculture to Advance Equity for All USDA - Nearly 20 percent of U.S. shoppers bought groceries online in 2022 USDA - SNAP Policy Data Set USDA - USDA’s School Breakfast Program served about 63 billion meals from 1975 through 2022 USDA - WIC Participant and Program Characteristics 2022 The White House - Fact Sheet: The Biden-⁠Harris Administration Announces Nearly $1.7 Billion in New Commitments Cultivated Through the White House Challenge to End Hunger and Build Healthy Communities

EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES

UCSF - Produce Prescription Program Coordinator, UCSF Seligman Research Team Altarum Institute - Food and Nutrition Research Project Manager California Department of Public Health - Director of the Women, Infants and Children Program Civil Eats - Senior Editor Kaiser Permanente - Director of Community Health National WIC Association - Research and Evaluation Manager The Rockerfeller Foundation - Program Manager, Food is Medicine Feeding America - Chief Research & Innovation Officer

FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES

Healthy Eating Research - Call for Proposals, Health Eating Research Round 14 Grants, deadline 4/3/24 USDA Request for Applications, Agriculture and Food Research Initiative - Sustainable Agricultural Systems, deadline 6/6/24 Request for Applications, FY2024 McGovern-Dole International Food For Education and Child Nutrition Program, deadline 5/3/24 Request for Applications, The Gus Schumacher Nutrition Incentive Program - Nutrition Incentive Program, deadline 5/14/24 Request for Applications, Supporting the Use of Traditional Indigenous Foods in the Child Nutrition Programs Cooperative Agreement, deadline 4/8/24 WIC Shop - WIC Online Shopping Sub-grant Project Request for Proposals, deadline 5/9/24

OTHER OPPORTUNITIES

Center for Science in the Public Interest - Application Opportunity, School Nutrition Advocacy Preventing Chronic Disease - Call for Papers, Community Engagement and Population Health From Practice to Evaluation Society for Prevention Research - Call for Applicants, Prevention Science Health Equity Associate Editor

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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.