Project Grant 90BISA0064

This Project Grant award from the United States Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program, CFDA 10.310, supports the development and evaluation of a digital intervention focused on healthy cooking, parent feeding practices, and child involvement in home food preparation for low-income families. The $909,615.40 grant, effective September 1, 2023 through August 31, 2027, will create a...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) awarded a $607,561 project grant under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (CFDA 10.310) to Utah State University (USU) to research the health implications of consuming foods prepared in thermally abused oils (TAOs). This 4-year project aims to investigate how TAO exposure affects gut inflammation, microbiome composition, and disease risks like colorectal cancer in mice. The research will also...

This Project Grant award of $674,338 from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865), will fund a 5-year study to evaluate the impact of a cooking skills intervention combined with a multicomponent weight management program on long-term weight loss in 114 young adults (ages 18-26) with intellectual disabilities, including those with Down syndrome. The primary aim is to compare weight...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) awarded a $1,500,000 grant under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) to Texas A&M AgriLife Research to develop the Healthy Living for Hispanic Communities USDA Nutrition Hub. This 4-year project aims to build an online repository of culturally tailored, community-based nutrition programs for Hispanic populations. The project will also convene a steering committee to identify gaps in existing resources and guide the development of...

This federal Project Grant award of $719,465.00 from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), under the Diabetes, Digestive, and Kidney Diseases Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.847), is funding a longitudinal, randomized-controlled experiment examining the impact of a suite of healthy food policies in online retail settings. The objective is to evaluate the effects of ultra-processed food and beverage taxes, front-of-pack nutrition labeling, and...

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH) received a $297,000 Project Grant award from the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program. The goal of this 2-year project is to develop and test a peer-led nutrition and culinary education curriculum for college students. Key activities include: Conducting surveys and interviews with students and faculty/staff at multiple colleges to inform curriculum development...

This four-year project grant from the United States Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program (CFDA 10.310) provides $969,890 to the University of Connecticut to deliver a multi-level intervention combining personalized nutrition education, digital food and nutrition literacy tools, and community collaboration efforts to improve diet quality and decrease chronic disease risk factors among low-income...

This federal Project Grant award, worth $1,170,080, was provided by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) under the Environmental Health (CFDA 93.113) program. The goal of this study, titled "Applied Implementation Research for Clean Cooking in Cambodia (AIR-C3)", is to design and demonstrate the effectiveness of a scalable strategy for achieving equitable access to and sustained use of induction-based clean cooking in low- and middle-income settings. The...

This Project Grant award totaling $649,081 was provided by the United States Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) Program (CFDA 10.310). The award will fund research to: Develop store-level measures of the healthfulness of food offerings that account for prices, using validated questionnaires, store-level scanner data, and product nutrition information. Identify market boundaries by store format...

This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (CFDA 93.307 Minority Health and Health Disparities Research) provides $295,923 to Equiti Foods, LLC to implement a "Food is Medicine" (FIM) program that will bring medically tailored meals to underserved groups at low or no cost. The key objectives are to: 1) Form advisory committees to guide the FIM program, 2) Expand Equiti Foods' capacity to produce culturally and medically...