This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR) under CFDA Program 93.361 - Nursing Research will fund a $1,145,592 evaluation of a clinical-community partnership food insecurity intervention program in Massachusetts. The grant aims to: Quantify the clinical outcome effects of the multi-component food insecurity intervention on Medicaid enrollees with diabetes, hypertension, and depression. Evaluate the impact on healthcare costs and utilization for adult and...
This $2,252,730 Project Grant award from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (CFDA 93.307) will fund research to measure the long-term health outcomes, health equity, and economic impacts of four key interventions to address food and nutrition insecurity in the U.S. The research team at the University of Chicago will use their NIH-funded microsimulation model to analyze the effects of interventions such as expanding the USDA Gus Schumacher Nutrition Incentive Program...
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), is funding a study titled "FOOD-BASED RANDOMIZED TRIAL FOR ENHANCING SUPPORT OF HOSPITALIZED CHILDREN AND THEIR FAMILIES (FRESH)". The $690,147 award will support a study to evaluate the impact of in-hospital food support interventions and post-discharge food assistance on outcomes for low-income...
This $1,617,690 federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Nursing Research (CFDA 93.361 Nursing Research program) supports a randomized controlled trial to evaluate a novel healthcare-community partnership called "Nutrition Outreach in Systems of Healthcare (NOURISH)" to address food insecurity in transplant and cellular therapy patients. The University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute, Inc. is the prime awardee, with sub-awards to Duke University,...
This $849,608 Project Grant award from the National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR) under CFDA Program 93.361 - Nursing Research aims to determine the feasibility of providing medically tailored, healthy frozen meals to children undergoing chemotherapy and their families. The project will collaborate with a small business to adapt meal flavors to address treatment-related taste alterations, and collect quantitative and qualitative data to refine the intervention and methods for a future...
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 of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865) is funding a study to design and evaluate a virtual, single-session cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT)-informed intervention for addressing loss-of-control eating among pregnant women. The $161,735 award, which runs from July 1, 2025 to June 30, 2030, will support a two-study research plan. The first study will...
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 support a study 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, effective from August 22, 2024 to July 31, 2027, will enable the principal investigator, Dr. Hazzard, to recruit 175...
This $657,757.00 Project Grant awarded by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (CFDA 93.865 - Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research) aims to reduce nutrition insecurity and malnutrition among adolescents in low- and middle-income countries. The grant funding will support an innovative combination of participatory systems thinking methods, quantitative data, and modeling to characterize food environments and understand how individual, household, and...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), under the Cardiovascular Diseases Research program (CFDA 93.837), provides $708,678 to Wake Forest University Health Sciences to conduct a Sequential Multiple Assignment Randomized Trial (SMART) study. The study aims to determine the most effective interventions to reduce food insecurity and improve adherence to hypertension treatments in patients with uncontrolled hypertension. The interventions being...