This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), under the CFDA program "Diabetes, Digestive, and Kidney Diseases Extramural Research" (93.847), will provide $340,175 to American University to conduct research on the effects of federal funding for obesity prevention programs on weight-related health behaviors, obesity prevalence, and obesity-related chronic conditions. The project aims to leverage variation in county and...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (CFDA 93.847 Diabetes, Digestive, and Kidney Diseases Extramural Research) will evaluate the impact of the updated federal nutrition standards for school meals in the United States. The $663,097 award to Merrimack College, effective May 7, 2025, will support a 5-year study to examine school meal compliance, product reformulation, meal participation rates, student dietary intakes, and body mass...
This federal Project Grant award, provided by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (CFDA 93.847 - Diabetes, Digestive, and Kidney Diseases Extramural Research), will fund a $324,226 pilot and feasibility study to evaluate the use of a "food prescription" (food RX) program combined with a healthy eating family behavioral intervention for youth with type 1 diabetes from food insecure households. The study will be conducted through a partnership between...
The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) awarded a 5-year, $663,232 Project Grant under the Diabetes, Digestive, and Kidney Diseases Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.847) to the University of Florida. The grant will fund a hybrid effectiveness and implementation trial to test the use of online weight loss tools, including a commercial goal-setting and self-monitoring platform and online support communities, to increase weight loss among primary care...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (CFDA 93.847 - Diabetes, Digestive, and Kidney Diseases Extramural Research) provides $586,502 to Boston Children's Hospital to examine the relationship between household food insecurity, neighborhood food access, and childhood obesity, as well as test a meal kit delivery intervention for families and children affected by food insecurity and obesity. The award period runs from Aug 1, 2024...
This Project Grant award, totaling $696,329, was provided 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). The grant supports research led by Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia Tech) to investigate sub-second catecholamine dynamics underlying food reward in humans. The goal is to bridge the translational gap between rodent studies and human...
This Project Grant award, totaling $1,825,466.00, was provided 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). The University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc. is the primary awardee conducting research to examine the impact of adolescent consumption of a Western diet high in saturated fat and added sugars on the development of impulsive eating behaviors. The...
This $2,252,730 project grant award from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (CFDA 93.307 - Minority Health and Health Disparities Research program) will support research to model the health equity and economic impacts of national strategies to address food and nutrition insecurity. The primary goals are to: 1) measure the long-term population health effects of interventions like expanding the USDA nutrition incentive program and SNAP benefits, 2) estimate impacts on...
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 Project Grant award from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (CFDA 93.847 - Diabetes, Digestive, and Kidney Diseases Extramural Research) provides $786,797 to the University of Utah to scale up the "Building Healthy Families" (BHF) childhood obesity intervention program in rural areas and small towns. The project aims to expand access to this evidence-based intervention by developing and implementing an online training and program resource...