This federal Project Grant award, funded by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) under the Diabetes, Digestive, and Kidney Diseases Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.847), aims to examine the relationship between household food insecurity, neighborhood food access, and childhood obesity, as well as develop and test interventions to support food and nutrition security for children and families. The $586,502 award, which runs from August 1, 2024 to...
This federal Project Grant award of $572,073 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), supports a research study led by Dr. Christine Call at the University of Pittsburgh. The study aims to identify the psychosocial and behavioral pathways through which food insecurity may predict higher gestational weight gain and postpartum weight retention among pregnant...
This federal Project Grant award, valued at $941,616.00 and provided by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) under CFDA Program 93.242 - Mental Health Research Grants, supports research to investigate the relationship between food cue exposure, food craving, and binge eating behaviors, and how these relationships are influenced by attention and memory processes. The key objectives are to use ecological momentary assessment and electroencephalography to examine how food cue exposure...
This Project Grant award 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 randomized trial to evaluate the effects of in-hospital and post-discharge food support interventions for low-income families with children admitted to the hospital. The $690,147 award, which runs from January 1, 2025 to December 31, 2029, will support two key research aims: 1) Determining the...
This Project Grant award of $1,145,592 from the National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR), under the Nursing Research federal grant program (CFDA 93.361), will fund a clinical-community partnership to understand the health impacts of a food insecurity intervention. The main objectives are to: 1) Quantify the effects of a multi-component food insecurity intervention on clinical outcomes among Medicaid enrollees with chronic conditions receiving care at a federally qualified health center...
This federal Project Grant award of $1,046,346 from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program aims to address food insecurity and unhealthy dietary behaviors among college students, particularly low-income and racial/ethnic minority populations. Through a partnership with five universities, including three minority-serving institutions (MSIs), the funded project will conduct research using...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Aging (CFDA 93.866 - Aging Research) will provide $563,670 to The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio to conduct a prospective study on the mental and cardiometabolic health impacts of chronic binge eating disorder (BED) in Hispanic/Latina older women living with food insecurity. The study aims to: Determine the prospective impact of chronic BED on cardiometabolic health, sarcopenic obesity, menopause quality of life,...
This $750,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084) will fund research at the University of California, Los Angeles to address college food insecurity and promote healthy eating among vulnerable student populations. Over the one-year period from December 2022 through November 2023, the grantee and sub-awardee Chico State Enterprises will develop a framework for understanding barriers to and motivators for food...
This federal Project Grant award of $241,500 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) aims to develop and pilot a positive food parenting intervention to promote healthy eating and growth in children at risk for obesity. The grant has two specific aims: 1) to develop a positive food parenting intervention focused on structure-based and autonomy-promoting...
This federal Project Grant award, funded by the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) under the Minority Health and Health Disparities Research program (CFDA 93.307), aims to evaluate the long-term population health, health equity, and economic impacts of four key interventions to address food and nutrition insecurity in the United States. The $2,252,730 award to the University of Chicago, with a project period from August 2024 to February 2028, will utilize a...
This Project Grant award, funded by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865), supports research to examine binge eating as a potential mechanism underlying the association between food insecurity and elevated risk of obesity among adolescents.
The $557,050.70 award, granted to the partnership between Henry Ford Health and Michigan State University Health Sciences, aims to quantify the extent to which binge eating mediates the longitudinal relationship between food insecurity and weight gain in a cohort of 175 adolescents over an 18-month period. Additionally, the project will utilize a human-centered design approach to develop and assess the perceived acceptability of potential interventions to improve food security and prevent excess weight gain among food-insecure adolescents. Findings from this research are expected to inform the development and implementation of future interventions that promote food security and healthy weight among this vulnerable population.