From the Coordinating Center

State-of-the-Science: Using the Commercial Determinants of Health Framework to Inform Food Policy October 16th @ 9am PT/12pm ET *Note new date* Jim Krieger, MD, MPH (Healthy Food America, University of Washington) Nick Freudenberg, DrPH (CUNY School of Public Health) 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. September Work Group Meetings Topics include: Updates to the Dollar Store Academic Network, Healthy Food Retail WG Policy Update & Brainstorming Future Topics for ECE WG, Early Childhood WG A Novel Policy Alignment and Enhancement Process to Improve Sustainment of School-Based Physical Activity Programming, School Wellness WG Multi-Disciplinary Approach to Treating Children & Adolescents with Obesity, Pediatric Obesity Health Services Research WG NOPREN Rural Libraries Project, Rural Food Access WG WIC Modernization and Outreach, WIC Research Learning Collaborative WG Understanding Water Availability & Accessibility to Improve Young Children’s Water Intake, Drinking Water 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

Nutrition Preparedness Clay, L. A., Koyratty, N., Rogus, S., Colón-Ramos, U., Hossan, A., Josephson, A., Neff, R., Zack, R. M., Bliss, S., & Niles, M. T. (2023). A Mixed-Methods Approach to the Development of a Disaster Food Security Framework. Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, 123(10, Supplement), S46–S58.

NEWS & UPDATES

Agriculture & Applied Economics Association - The SNAP Effect: Food Stamps and America’s Poorest Center for Science in the Public Interest - Calories often absent on third-party food delivery platforms Civil Eats - Changes to WIC Benefits Would Cut Food Access for Millions of Parents Click on Detroit - Do kids in Metro Detroit schools have enough time to eat lunch? Here’s what our survey found CNN - States step in to pay for school meals for all kids The Hill - Protect and strengthen SNAP to nourish our children Indigenous Food & Agriculture Initiative - Food and Nutrition Service Proposed Changes Impacting Tribes and Tribal Citizens Marketplace - The SNAP work reporting requirement age just rose by one year. It’s already affecting who gets benefits NCCOR - USDA Invests Nearly $30 Million to Boost School Nutrition in 264 Small & Rural Communities through Partnership with Action for Healthy Kids NPR - Serving farm fresh food in schools is getting big federal support — but will 'farm to school' stick? Partnership for a Healthier America - Instacart and Partnership for a Healthier America Release Program Impact Results and Expand Good Food for All to Four Additional Cities PBS News Hour - How states are responding after federal funding for free school meals for all ends

RESOURCES

Center on Budget and Policy Priorities 600,000 Young Children and New Parents Could Be Turned Away Unless Congress Adheres to a 25-Year Bipartisan Commitment to Fully Fund WIC SNAP Provides Critical Benefits to Workers and Their Families WIC Works: Addressing the Nutrition and Health Needs of Low-Income Families for More Than Four Decades Young Children and New Parents in Every State Could Be Turned Away From WIC or Have Their Benefits Cut Under Pending Appropriations Bills Healthy Eating Research - New Online Module on Creating Healthy Eating Habits in Early Childhood Education Settings

WEBINARS & EVENTS

ASPHN - Growing Farm to Early Care and Education (ECE) Statewide: Farm to ECE Foundations and Resources, Farm to ECE 2023-2024 Webinar Series, 10/31/23 @ 2p ET ASPHN - Making Farm to Early Care and Education (ECE) Changes Sustainable: Farm to ECE and CDC's Spectrum of Opportunity, Farm to ECE 2023-2024 Webinar Series, 10/31/23 @ 2p ET FDA - Strategies to Reduce Added Sugar Consumption in the United States Virtual Public Meeting and Listening Sessions, Consumer Education and Community Perspectives Public Meeting, 11/7/23 @ 12p ET or 11/8/23 @ 10a ET, register by 10/20/23 FDA - Strategies to Reduce Added Sugar Consumption in the United States Virtual Public Meeting and Listening Sessions, Food Labeling and Food Industry Perspectives Public Meeting, 11/7/23 @ 10a ET or 11/8/23 @ 2p ET, register by 10/20/23  International Food Policy Research Institute - Facilitating Anticipatory Action with Improved Early Warning Guidance, 9/26/23 @ 9a ET National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine - Food Product Labeling: Challenges of Defining Sustainability, 10/12/23 @ 10a ET National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine - The Role of Advanced Computation, Predictive Technologies and Big Data Analytics in Research Related to Food and Nutrition, 10/10/23 & 10/11/23 @ 9a ET National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine - Use of Meta-Analyses in Nutrition Research and Policy: Best Practices of Conducting Meta-Analysis, 9/25/22 @ 12p ET National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine - Use of Meta-Analyses in Nutrition Research and Policy: Interpretation and Application of Meta-Analysis to Evaluate the Totality of Evidence, 10/3/23 @ 12p ET USDA - NIFA Food & Nutrition Security Webinar: Local/Regional Food Systems, 10/3/23 @ 11:30 ET USDA - Using PubAg to Share USDA-funded Work, 10/17/23 @ 2p ET

FEDERAL, STATE, & LOCAL UPDATES & REPORTS

CDC DNPAO - 41 Communities Receive Funding to Improve Health and Prevent Chronic Disease Congress - H.R.5136 - STORE Act of 2023 Congressional Research Service Policy Issues Involving Food Loss and Waste Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP): A Primer on Eligibility and Benefits Maryland, Montgomery County Council - Sec. 15-15C: Healthy Meals for Children USDA Emergency allotments central to SNAP spending growth during pandemic Fewer than one-third of U.S. adults think their diets were very good or excellent Reflecting on and Improving on Tribal Programs at FNS Total participation in WIC increased in fiscal year 2022, first rise in more than a decade USDA Announces Approval of D-SNAP for Hawaii Disaster Areas

EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES

AARP - Vice President, Policy - Health Security American Academy of Pediatrics - Coordinator, Federal Advocacy Argyll & Bute Council - Senior Manager: Catering, Cleaning, Commercial Events and Food Strategy Cornell University - Research Project Coordinator, The Odoms-Young Nutrition Liberation, Food Sovereignty, and Justice Laboratory FRAC - Senior Technical Assistance Mentor, WIC Community Innovation and Outreach God's Love We Deliver - Food is Medicine Coalition - Manager of Membership and Accreditation Iowa State University - Program Assistant III, Iowa LEAP (Iowa Obesity Program Leveraging Activities and Partnerships to Address Obesity) National Network of Public Health Institutes - Program Associate/Senior Program Associate, Bridging Sectors to Create Health NC State University - Temporary Office Support, Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program NIH - Health Scientist Administrator (HSA), National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute NIH - Implementation Science Branch Chief, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute Partnership for a Healthier America - Director, Corporate Partnerships Partnership for a Healthier America - Manager, Good Food Programs Pew - Manager, Community, Partnerships Pew - Senior Director, Government Relations RTI International - Senior Food Security & Nutrition Advisor Texas A&M Agriculture, Food and Nutrition Evidence Center - Nutrition Systematic Review Analyst (Mid-Level) Tulane University - Chair, Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine UC ANR - Assistant-Associate Project Scientist (2 positions), Nutrition Policy Institute, deadline 10/10/23 University of Illinois Chicago - Associate Dean for Academic Affairs - School of Public Health University of Minnesota - Extension Educators (3 positions), deadline 10/8/23

FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES

FRAC - Request for Proposals, Equitable Access in Child Nutrition Programs, deadline 10/3/23 NIH - 2024 Call for Nominations, Early Stage Investigator Lecture (ESIL), deadline 10/20/23

OTHER OPPORTUNITIES

National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine - Call for Experts, Developing a Strategy to Evaluate the National Climate Assessment, deadline 9/28/23 UCLA Resnick Center for Food Law & Policy - Save the Date, Reflecting on the Past to Advance the Future: Celebrating a Decade of the Resnick Center for Food Law & Policy, 4/19/24

STUDENT & EARLY CAREER SECTION

CDC - Public Health Law Fellowship, deadline 10/2/23 Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health - Bloomberg Fellows Program, deadline 12/1/23 Office of Personnel Management - Presidential Management Fellows (PMF) Program, deadline 9/25/23 Trust for Public Land - Federal Affairs Intern

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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.