This workshop is an activity led by the Nutrition and Health Disparities Implementation Working Group. This working group seeks to advance NIH research to understand how diet, nutritional status, the environment, and biological and behavioral processes can contribute to health disparities.
Alison Brown, NHLBI, NIH
alison.brown@nih.gov, 301-435-0583
Tanya Agurs-Collins, NCI, NIH
collinsta@mail.nih.gov, 240-276-6956
Members
Background
Nutrition plays an important role throughout our lives in promoting health and preventing disease. But where we live or how much money we earn can affect our ability to access or afford healthy food choices. Ensuring food security and access to healthy food are key to preventing disparities in a variety of diet-related diseases and conditions, such as cardiovascular disease, obesity, diabetes and cancer. Research has shown that socioeconomic status, food insecurity and the neighborhood food environment are linked to diet quality and nutrition-related health outcomes. Elucidating the role of these social conditions on diet and nutritional status could help address and prevent diet-related health disparities and promote health equity.
Goal
To review the state of the science, identify research gaps and opportunities related to food insecurity and the neighborhood food environment, and suggest innovative research strategies that will inform policy and practice to address and prevent diet-related health disparities and promote health equity.
Objectives
Summarize the state of the science and identify knowledge gaps related to food insecurity, neighborhood food environments and nutrition health disparities.
Suggest research opportunities and strategies to address those research gaps.
Examine research on evidence-based interventions and implementation approaches to address food insecurity and neighborhood food environments and to promote health equity.
Key Deadlines
July 9, 2021: Abstracts due
July 26, 2021: Notification of abstract acceptance
Aug. 23, 2021: Poster presentations due
Sept. 7, 2021: Registration deadline
Special Accommodations
If you have a disability and require any assistive device, service, or other reasonable accommodations to participate in this event, please contact Mark Dennis at 301-670-4990 during business hours at least 10 days before the meeting to discuss your needs.
Day 1: September 21, 12:30‒5:30 p.m. EDT
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12:00 p.m. |
Doors Open
Workshop Introduction and Overview |
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12:30‒12:50 p.m. |
Opening Remarks and Welcome |
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Session 1: Food Insecurity Overview: Definitions, Measurement, and Federal Programs |
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12:50‒1:15 p.m. |
Overview of Food Insecurity and Food Nutrition Service Programs |
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1:15‒1:30 p.m. |
Overview of Food Insecurity Measurement |
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1:30‒1:45 p.m. |
Pathophysiology Linking Food Insecurity with Obesity and Cardiometabolic Diseases |
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1:45‒2:05 p.m. |
Q&A |
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2:05‒2:20 p.m. |
Break and Visit the Networking Lounge |
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Session 2: State of the Science in Food Insecurity: Research Gaps and Opportunities |
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2:20‒3:25 p.m. |
Panel 1: Disparities in Food Insecurity and Health Outcomes over the Life Course Speakers will provide an overview of current evidence related to racial/ethnic and socioeconomic disparities over the life course and examine the association of food insecurity with health outcomes within and between groups. Panel members will discuss the key drivers of these disparities, knowledge gaps, and future research opportunities. |
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Addressing Food Insecurity among Overlooked Population Groups |
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Food Insecurity among Native American Communities |
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Food Insecurity across the Lifespan |
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Q&A |
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3:25‒3:30 p.m. |
Break |
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Session 3: Innovative Interventions to Address Food Insecurity |
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3:30‒3:55 p.m. |
Flash Talks 1: Community-Based and Policy Solutions Flash talk sessions include brief, 8-minute presentations that highlight innovative interventions to address food insecurity at the local and national level and across multiple settings. This session will highlight innovations in the community setting, as well as federal nutrition policy solutions to tackle food insecurity. |
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Increased Minimum Wage and Food Insecurity |
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Understanding Restrictions and Incentives in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) |
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Overview and Early Results from Gus Schumacher Nutrition Incentive Program (GusNIP): Nutrition Incentive and Produce Prescription Projects |
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3:55‒4:20 p.m. |
Flash Talks 2: Health Care Interventions Flash talk sessions include brief, 8-minute presentations that highlight innovative interventions to address food insecurity at the local and national level and across multiple settings. This session will showcase interventions in the health care setting, focusing on such diseases as cardiometabolic disease and cancer. |
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New Models of Care to Reduce Food Insecurity |
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Intervention through Medically Tailored Food Choices and Other Approaches in Cancer Patients |
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Interventions to Address Type 2 Diabetes among African Americans Experiencing Food Insecurity |
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4:20‒4:40 p.m. |
Q&A |
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4:40‒4:55 p.m. |
Break and Visit the Networking Lounge |
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4:55‒5:15 p.m. |
Gaps and Opportunities to Address Food Insecurity and Promotion of Racial Equity in the Context of Structural and Social Determinants of Health |
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5:15‒5:25 p.m. |
Q&A |
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5:25‒5:30 p.m. |
Closing and Summary |
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Day 2: September 22, 12:30‒5:30 p.m. EDT |
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12:30‒12:50 p.m. |
Welcome and Day 1 Recap |
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Session 4: Overview and Measurement of the Neighborhood Food Environment |
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12:50‒1:10 p.m. |
State of the Science: Neighborhood Food Environment and How It Influences Health |
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1:10‒1:20 p.m. |
Q&A |
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Session 5: State of the Science in Neighborhood Food Environment: Research Gaps and Opportunities |
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1:20‒2:10 p.m. |
Panel 2: Neighborhood Food Environment, Dietary Behaviors, and Health Outcomes This panel will review current research on neighborhood food environments, including the retail and restaurant/food service environments and on the association between food environments and poor dietary behaviors, chronic disease, and health disparities. Speakers will discuss gaps in knowledge, research opportunities, and next steps to improve retail food environments and health outcomes. |
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Retail Food Environments, Diet, and Chronic Disease |
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Restaurant/Food Service Environments, Diet, and Chronic Disease |
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Q&A |
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2:10‒2:25 p.m. |
Break and Visit the Networking Lounge |
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2:25‒3:30 p.m. |
Panel 3: Measurement of Food Access and Neighborhood Food Environment This panel will highlight available measures of the community and consumer neighborhood food environments, including geographic information system (GIS) technologies and technology-aided measurements. Speakers will address what is known about the validity and reliability of these measures and provide research examples in this area. |
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The Food Environment, Food Store Access, and How To Measure The Food Environment Using Geographical Information Systems |
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Measuring the Consumer Food Environment |
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Technology-Aided Measurement of the Food Environment |
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Q&A |
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3:30‒3:35 p.m. |
Break |
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Session 6: Interventions to Improve Neighborhood Food Environments |
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3:35‒4:40 p.m. |
Panel 4: Interventions to Address the Neighborhood Food Environment This panel will discuss interventions intended to make neighborhood food environments more health-enhancing. Speakers will review various intervention studies and their findings, and identify and discuss research gaps and ways to move the science forward. |
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Placing New Supermarkets in “Food Deserts” - What Have We Learned? |
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Corner Store Initiative Evaluation and Multiple Interventions to Address the Food Environment |
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Community Interventions in Food Pantries and within Food Retail Environments |
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Q&A |
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4:40‒4:55 p.m. |
Break and Visit the Networking Lounge |
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4:55‒5:25 p.m. |
Gaps and Opportunities in the Neighborhood Food Environment: Strategies to Advance Health Equity |
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Q&A |
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5:25‒5:30 p.m. |
Closing and Summary |
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Day 3: September 23, 12:30‒5:30 p.m. EDT |
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12:30‒12:45 p.m. |
Welcome and Days 1 and 2 Recap |
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12:45‒1:00 p.m. |
Introduction: Focus on Implementation Science |
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Session 7: What Has and Hasn't Worked to Address Food Insecurity and Health |
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1:00‒1:15 p.m. |
Overview of Feeding America Efforts |
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1:15‒2:00 p.m. |
Panel 5: Strategies to Address Food Insecurity and Health: What Works, What Doesn’t, and Why This panel will discuss strategies to address food insecurity among high-risk populations in the context of social determinants of health that influence implementation and ways to improve these interventions. Explanations for positive effects or lack of effects will be examined in terms of research methodology and intervention assumptions and features. Speakers will examine research methodologies and interventions to explore what worked or didn’t work and why, including case studies of effective interventions as well as future research opportunities. |
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Implementing Nutrition Ranking in the Charitable Food System. |
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Addressing Food Insecurity in the COVID-19 Context in Washington State |
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Food Pantry Transformations in Minnesota |
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Q&A |
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2:00‒2:20 p.m. |
Visit the Poster Hall for Poster Session 1 (Food Insecurity Track 1) |
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Session 8: What Has and Hasn’t Worked to Address Neighborhood Food Environments |
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2:20‒2:35 p.m. |
CDC-funded Community-based Initiatives to Support Healthy Food Environments |
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2:35‒3:20 p.m. |
Panel 6: Strategies to Improve Neighborhood Food Environments: What Has and Hasn’t Worked and Why This panel will examine policies, strategies, and contextual social factors that can influence neighborhood food environments and the implementation of strategies to address these factors. Speakers will describe examples of both effective and ineffective interventions that address changes in the food environment to influence dietary behaviors, emphasizing the importance of multilevel strategies to address neighborhood food environments, health disparities, and barriers to success. |
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Fast Food Ban in Los Angeles |
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Evaluation of the Healthy Food Financing Initiative |
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Healthy In-Store Marketing |
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Q&A |
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3:20‒3:35 p.m. |
Break and Visit the Networking Lounge |
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3:35‒3:55 p.m. |
Visit the Poster Hall for Poster Session 2 (Neighborhood Food Environment Track 2) |
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Session 9: Cross-Sectoral Partnerships to Address Food Insecurity and Neighborhood Food Environments |
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3:55‒4:40 p.m. |
Panel 7: Bridging the Gap: Perspectives from Community Organizations, Health Care Settings, Researchers, and Partners The panel will examine best practices in bridging gaps among various settings when developing effective interventions to reduce nutrition-related health disparities. Speakers will highlight exemplars that focus on the importance of community engagement, community-based participatory research, and health care partnerships that tackle food insecurity and poor neighborhood food environments. They also will identify research gaps that should be addressed in future studies. |
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Community Engagement, Perspectives, and Technology |
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Emergency Food Systems and Health Care Partnerships |
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Implementation of Programs in At-Risk Communities: The REACH Program and the Diabetes Prevention Program |
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Q&A |
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4:40‒4:55 p.m. |
Break and Visit the Networking Lounge |
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4:55‒5:30 p.m. |
Wrap-up and Closing |
Distinguished Professor & Founding Director, University of California San Francisco & San Francisco State University, SOUL Lab
Mildred Kaufman Distinguished Professor in the Department of Nutrition, Director of the Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Professor of Public Health, San Diego State University
Chief, Chronic Disease Nutrition and Obesity Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Associate Professor, University of Connecticut Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity
Professor, Dornsife School of Public Health, Drexel University * Director of Center for Hunger-Free Communities
Research Social Scientist (Sociologist), Economic Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture
Assistant Professor of Health Disparities
Food, Nutrition, and Consumer Services, U.S. Department of Agriculture
Professor and Director, Center for Public Health Nutrition, University of Washington
Senior Policy Researcher, RAND Corporation
Professor; New Balance Chair in Childhood Nutrition, Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy and the Medical School, Tufts University...
Professor of Medicine, Chief, Division of General Internal Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Associate Professor, Epidemiology, Associate Dean for Diversity and Inclusion and Associate Director, Center for Health Equity, University of Pittsburgh
Professor, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University
George A. Weiss University Professor, University of Pennsylvania
Snee Family Endowed Chair, Baylor Collaborative on Hunger and Poverty (BCHP), Baylor University
Associate Professor, University of Kentucky, Department of Dietetics and Human Nutrition and College of Nursing
Professor, University of Minnesota
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Associate Professor, City of Hope
Professor of Rural Health, Director, Center for Indigenous Health Research and Policy, Oklahoma State University
Associate Director, Center for Research in Education & Social Policy, University of Delaware
Adjunct Professor, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Director, CTRIS/National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, NIH
Senior Director Health Care Partnerships, Project Bread
Associate Professor, Division of Nutritional Sciences, College of Human Ecology/College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Cornell University
Director, National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD)
Deputy Branch Chief, Division of Cardiovascular Sciences, NHLBI, NIH
Feeding America; Vice President, Health and Nutrition
Economic Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture
Professor, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Director, Nutrition Policy Institute; Cooperative Extension Specialist, Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources, University of California
Mitchell J. Blutt and Margo Krody Blutt Presidential Associate Professor of Health Policy, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
Professor, Human Development and Family Sciences; Director, Rudd Center, University of Connecticut
Professor of Medicine and of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Medicine, University of California San Francisco
Assistant Professor, Tulane School of Public Health & Tropical Medicine
Professor, Family Medicine and Community Health, Duke University & Healthy Eating Research National Program
Professor of Policy Analysis, Pardee RAND Graduate School
Senior Fellow, Urban Institute
UC San Francisco's Division of HIV, Infectious Diseases and Global Medicine at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital
Executive Director, Gretchen Swanson Center for Nutrition
Director, National Institute of Nursing Research, NIH