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...
The University of South Florida received a $576,459 Project Grant award from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) under the Minority Health and Health Disparities Research (CFDA 93.307) program. The purpose of the "FRESH-EATS" project is to implement and evaluate a community-driven, multilevel nutrition intervention to improve dietary behaviors and reduce food access disparities among Black/African-American families with school-aged children in...
The federal Project Grant award titled "CARDIOVASCULAR RISK REDUCTION FOR ADULTS WITH FOOD INSECURITY USING STRUCTURED INCENTIVES (CVD-FIT)" was provided by the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (CFDA 93.307 Minority Health and Health Disparities Research) of the National Institutes of Health. The $1,996,548 grant will fund a 5-year study to test a multi-component intervention that includes monthly income supplementation, structured incentives for healthy...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (CFDA 93.307 - Minority Health and Health Disparities Research) provides $616,284 to The Research Foundation for the State University of New York (RF SUNY) to adapt the evidence-based Veggie Van mobile market intervention to address nutrition insecurity among college students. The project aims to pilot the adapted Veggie Van model at the University at Buffalo to assess its impact on fruit and vegetable...
This Project Grant award of $481,673.00 from the U.S. Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture (CFDA #10.310, Agriculture and Food Research Initiative) to Colorado State University will fund three interrelated empirical analyses. The first objective is to assess the incidence and determinants of persistent food insecurity among U.S. minorities using Current Population Survey - Food Security Supplement (CPS-FSS) data. The second objective is to combine CPS-FSS data...
This $295,923 Project Grant awarded by the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (CFDA 93.307 Minority Health and Health Disparities Research) supports Equiti Foods, LLC, a woman-owned small business, in expanding its "Food is Medicine" program to reduce health disparities. The key objectives are to: Convene advisory committees to guide the program's design and implementation. Expand Equiti Foods' capacity to produce culturally and medically tailored frozen meals...
This Project Grant award 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), will fund a $675,120 study to increase awareness and utilization of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) fruit and vegetable incentive programs among food-insecure families in South Carolina. The study will leverage pediatric clinics to educate SNAP-enrolled parents on these...
This Project Grant award from the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program provides $120,000.00 to the University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC) to conduct research on food insecurity vulnerability. The key products and services to be delivered include: Creating a food insecurity vulnerability index at the census level using Census data and grocery store surveys to map food insecurity vulnerability. Surveying...
This $657,757 Project Grant awarded by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865) aims to reduce nutrition insecurity and malnutrition among adolescents in low-income and middle-income countries. The key products and services to be delivered through this 4-year grant include: 1) physically mapping the food environments of 10 schools in Nairobi, Kenya and employing participatory...
This $3,927,249 Project Grant award, funded by the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (CFDA 93.307 Minority Health and Health Disparities Research program), will evaluate a novel youth violence prevention program called "CHAMP-V + LAW" at the University of Chicago. The program combines community health worker (CHW) interventions and legal advocacy to address structural inequities that contribute to community violence affecting middle school youth and their...
The University of Chicago received a $1,501,820 Project Grant award from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (CFDA 93.307 Minority Health and Health Disparities Research) to measure the long-term health, equity, and economic impacts of strategies to address food and nutrition insecurity in the U.S. The project aims to (1) analyze the population health effects, (2) estimate impacts on health disparities, and (3) quantify the cost-effectiveness of four key policy interventions: expanding the USDA Nutrition Incentive Program, expanding SNAP benefits, increasing food/nutrition security screening, and enhancing access to nutrition/obesity counseling. The university will utilize an NIH-funded microsimulation model to conduct these assessments across racial/ethnic and socioeconomic subgroups. The project will also include a dissemination component to translate the research findings into a web-based policy impact simulator to support evidence-based national food and nutrition policy decisions. The award period runs from August 2024 to May 2028.