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Study highlights how COVID-19 changed the eating behaviors of school-aged children in families with low-income in California

Sep 1, 2023

Disadvantaged communities were disproportionately affected by reductions in health programming during the COVID-19 pandemic

Aug 4, 2023

Gail Woodward-Lopez retires after 23 years of leadership in advancing nutrition

Jul 20, 2023

NPI researchers present on new tool to measure infant diet quality and SNAP-Ed school interventions at Nutrition 2023

Jul 17, 2023

NPI researchers present on school meals for all, freshly-prepared school meals, and SNAP-Ed assessments at the Society for Nutrition Education and Behavior International Annual Conference

Jul 14, 2023

Online restaurant meal ordering platforms in three U.S. cities do not adequately adhere to healthy default beverage laws for children’s meals

Feb 16, 2023

Study finds that SNAP-Ed interventions modified during the COVID-19 pandemic increased student fruit and vegetable intake

Jan 30, 2023

Research brief on study that identified limited implementation of California’s Healthy Default Beverage law

Nov 4, 2022

Nutrition Policy Institute to share research findings at the 150th American Public Health Association Annual Meeting

Sep 8, 2022

New study describes a flexible recruitment strategy for schools that are socioeconomically comparable to SNAP-Ed schools

Jul 11, 2022

NPI researchers present at ASN’s Nutrition Live Online 2022 on improvements to WIC to support participant food security and on access to school meals during COVID-19

Jun 8, 2022

NPI researchers share findings on COVID-19 impacts on local health department SNAP-Ed programming at the 2022 Association of SNAP Nutrition Education Administrators virtual conference

Feb 12, 2022

New study suggests limited implementation of California’s Healthy Default Beverage law for children’s meals sold online

Jan 28, 2022

Validated Local School Wellness Policy Implementation site-level questionnaire for elementary schools developed by NPI researchers

Jan 25, 2022

New study suggests Harvest of the Month curriculum increases fruit and vegetable intake in school children

Nov 24, 2021

New study of Rethink Your Drink curriculum to reduce sugar-sweetened beverage consumption in high school students suggests targeting younger students may be more effective

Nov 23, 2021

Nutrition Policy Institute researchers publish new method for evaluating the ‘dose’ of complex, multicomponent public health interventions

Oct 28, 2021

NPI researchers present on challenges and opportunities for SNAP-Ed programs during the COVID-19 pandemic at 2021 National Health Outreach Conference

May 10, 2021

New NPI study evaluates restaurant kids' meal beverage offerings before and after implementation of healthy default beverage policies in California and Wilmington, DE

Apr 19, 2021

NPI researchers use factor analysis method to evaluate the effect of school nutrition environments on child health

Mar 22, 2021