From the Coordinating Center

April State-of-the-Science Webinar The CDC Community Guide Review & Recommendations Process: Nutrition Incentive Programs Date: April 8th @ 9am PT/12pm ET Presenters: Renee Stein, PhD Community Guide, CDC  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

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March Work Groups An Interdisciplinary Approach to Community-Engaged Research Surrounding Lead in Drinking Water in the Mississippi Delta, Drinking Water A Supermarket Research Partnership, Healthy Food Retail Future Work Group Directions & Current CDC Projects & Tools, Pediatric Obesity Health Services Research

April Work Groups Results from the Water Up!@ Home Intervention Trial, Drinking Water Experiments in community-designed and -driven Food Is Medicine, Rural Food Access DiscoverU: Integrating physical activity, nutrition, & social emotional learning into afterschool programs, School Wellness Starting Early to Prevent Obesity Using Telehealth (StEP OUT) in Latino WIC Families, WIC Learning Collaborative .

2023 HER NOPREN Research Impact Award

Congratulations to the winners of the 2023 HER NOPREN Research Impact Award: Christopher Anderson and the research team at Public Health Foundation Enterprises (PHFE) WIC, UC Davis, and the Nutrition Policy Institute Check out their winning article: Anderson, C. E., Au, L. E., Yepez, C. E., Ritchie, L. D., Tsai, M. M., & Whaley, S. E. (2023). Increased WIC cash value benefit is associated with greater amount and diversity of redeemed fruits and vegetables among participating households. Current Developments in Nutrition, 7(9).

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

PUBLICATIONS

Berkowitz, S. A. (2024). Equal care: Health equity, Social Democracy, and the egalitarian state. Johns Hopkins University Press. Bleich, S. N., Figueroa, J. F., & Minow, M. (2024). Institutional Efforts to Address Legacies of Slavery—Implications for the Health Care System. JAMA Health Forum, 5(3). Hanson, E., Albert-Rozenberg, D., Garfield, K. M., Broad Leib, E., Ridberg, R. A., Hager, K., & Mozaffarian, D. (2024). The evolution and scope of Medicaid Section 1115 demonstrations to address nutrition: A US survey. Health Affairs Scholar, 2(2), qxae013.

RESOURCES

Council on Black Health - The Getting To Equity In Obesity Prevention Toolkit This toolkit addresses the need to include an equity component in the planning and implementation of policy, systems, and environmental change approaches (PSE) undertaken to curb adverse trends in obesity and related health consequences.

WEBINARS & EVENTS

American Society for Nutrition - Nutrition 2024, 6/29/24 - 7/2/24 ASPHN - Integrating Nutrition and Health: Nourishing People and Planet, 6/9/24 - 6/11/24 COSSA - Social Science Advocacy Day, 4/8/24 - 4/9/24 FRAC - National Anti-Hunger Policy Conference, 6/3/24 - 6/5/24 NIH - Addressing Health Disparities in Diabetes: Intersection of Structural Racism, Social Determinants, and Racial/Ethnic Disparities, 5/15/24 @ 2p ET NIH - Optimizing Interventions for Equitability: Some Initial Ideas, 4/8/24 @ 2p ET Notah Begay III (NB3) Foundation - Healthy Kids! Healthy Futures! Conference, 6/16/24 - 6/18/24 UCLA Law - Reflecting on the Past to Advance the Future: Celebrating a Decade of the Resnick Center for Food Law and Policy, 4/18/24 - 4/19/24 University of California, Riverside - National Science Symposium, 4/12/24 - 4/14/24 USDA - Discover USDA National Agricultural Library Nutrition Resources and Tools during National Nutrition Month®, 3/28/24 @ 1p ET

FEDERAL, STATE, & LOCAL UPDATES & REPORTS

USDA Evaluation of the USDA Summer EBT Demonstrations: Lessons Learned From More Than a Decade of Research Utilizing the USDA’s National Household Food Acquisition and Purchase Survey to Calculate a Household-Level Food Environment Measure The White House - Fact Sheet: President Biden Issues Executive Order and Announces New Actions to Advance Women’s Health Research and Innovation

EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES

Altarum Institute - Food and Nutrition Research Project Manager American Institutes for Research - Nutrition and Food Assistance Strategic Planning Director (Pillar 1); Expert Technical Leadership and Coordination Community Food Bank of Southern Arizona - Senior Director of Food Security Department of Defense - Director, Health and Fitness, deadline 4/5/24 Google Health - Health Equity Clinical Specialist Harvard Law School - Clinical Instructor, Food Law and Policy Penn State - Assistant Professor in Nutrition and Community Engagement through Extension Public Health Institute - Principal Investigator and Executive Director The Rockefeller Foundation - Director, Communications, Policy & Advocacy - Food Initiative Tufts University - Project Manager, Food is Medicine Institute University of Kentucky - Assistant Professor in Dietetics and Human Nutrition, deadline 5/15/24 Westat - Principal Research Associate - Food & Nutrition - Telework Winrock International - Technical Director, Agriculture, Resilience & Water

FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES

USDA Applications for USDA Urban Agriculture and Innovative Production Grants The Gus Schumacher Nutrition Incentive Program - Nutrition Incentive Program, deadline 5/14/24 Supporting the Use of Traditional Indigenous Foods in the Child Nutrition Programs Cooperative Agreement, deadline 4/8/24 USDA and Full Plates, Full Potential- School Food System Transformation Challenge, deadline 5/1/24 USDA and Lake Michigan School Food System Innovation Hub Innovation Collaboration Awards, deadline 4/30/24 Spark Awards, deadline 4/30/24

OTHER OPPORTUNITIES

Agriculture - Nomination Opportunity, Agriculture 2023 Young Investigator Award, deadline 5/31/24 Preventing Chronic Disease - Call for Papers, Community Engagement and Population Health From Practice to Evaluation, deadline 4/26/24 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation - Call for Applications, RWJF Culture of Health Prize

STUDENTS & EARLY CAREER

UCSF - Postdoctoral Scholar, Seligman Research Team, deadline 4/15/24 Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health - 42nd Graduate Summer Institute of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, 6/10/24 - 6/28/24 No Kid Hungry - 2024 SummerMeals4NCKids Internship Program, deadline 4/1/24 North Dakota State University - Food Sovereignty Emerging Leaders Program, deadline 4/15/24 University College of Dublin - Global Public Health and Sports Studies Summer School 2024, deadline 3/31/24

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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.