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...
This $948,000 Project Grant award from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (CFDA 93.847) will fund a pilot Type 2 hybrid effectiveness-implementation trial of the I-FRESH (Implementing Food Referrals for Equity and Sustained Health) program. The I-FRESH program aims to screen families for food insecurity, provide referrals and assistance to access nutrition support programs, and conduct follow-up assessments. The program will be tested at Rady Children's Hospital...
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 federal Project Grant award from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (CFDA 93.837 Cardiovascular Diseases Research) provides $708,678 to Wake Forest University Health Sciences to conduct a Sequential Multiple Assignment Randomized Trial (SMART) to reduce food insecurity and improve treatment adherence in patients with hypertension. The 5-year project, which began on March 4, 2025, will evaluate the effectiveness of different interventions, including providing information about...
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), supports a clinical-community partnership to evaluate the health impacts of a multi-component food insecurity intervention. The study aims to: 1) Quantify the effects of the intervention on clinical outcomes among Medicaid enrollees with chronic conditions receiving care at a Federally Qualified Health Center; 2) Evaluate the...
This Project Grant award for $728,263 from the National Institute of Nursing Research (CFDA 93.361 Nursing Research) supports research to evaluate the effectiveness of two clinic-based approaches to providing medically tailored groceries (MTG) to food insecure pregnant women. The two approaches being studied are a clinic-based market/pantry model (CB-MTG) and a home-delivered MTG model (HD-MTG), with a third intervention arm adding supplemental nutrition and culinary education (HD-MTG Plus). The...
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 $167,864 to The General Hospital Corporation, doing business as Massachusetts General Hospital, to conduct a mixed-methods study on adapting and developing a diabetes self-management education and support (DSMES) intervention for people with type 2 diabetes experiencing food insecurity. The key objectives of the...
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 Project Grant award, provided by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865), will support a research project led by Dr. Hazzard examining binge eating as a potential mechanism underlying the paradoxical association between food insecurity and elevated risk of obesity in adolescents. The $1.05M award, granted on August 22, 2024, will fund a longitudinal study of 175 adolescents...
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...