NIH Request for Information
November 1st is the deadline for providing input to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) on research priorities related to food and nutrition security. They describe the goal as “The NIH is seeking broad input on a roadmap to end hunger, food insecurity, and nutrition insecurity through innovative and multidisciplinary research spanning the investigational spectrum from cells to selves to societies.”
The four areas of interest are:
1) Why hunger persists, including how limited opportunities for economic mobility and other inequities have contributed to hunger, along with research needed to address this,
2) Examples of effective coordination between federal, state, counties and/or non-governmental organizations that have addressed hunger, food insecurity and nutrition insecurity through research, policies, implementation strategies or regulations.
3) Experiences with strategies or innovative interventions that are working, could be improved or not working to address food insecurity and neighborhood food environments and to promoting health equity related to diet related chronic diseases, including research strategies that could be applied to examine the potential translatability of these strategies/interventions to other settings or diverse populations.
4) Implementation science research needed to examine the efficacy of providing specific resources or approaches to eliminate hunger and food insecurity and improve nutrition security and health for all.