With the one-year anniversary of the White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health approaching on September 28th, this webinar reflects on progress to date towards achieving the goals of the conference, to end hunger and increase healthy eating by 2030 so that fewer Americans have diet-related diseases. The webinar focused on Pillar 5 of the conference: Nutrition and Food Security Research, in particular. Since the conference, companies and organizations in the private and public sectors have made public commitments to reduce hunger and diet-related diseases in many different ways, and federal agencies have responded with commitments, revised policies, and funding opportunities of their own. Speakers explored research advances made in the nutrition and food security space since the conference, as well as open funding opportunities to help support further research in this important area.

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Speakers

Sara Bleich, PhD
Vice Provost for Special Projects, Harvard University; Director of Social Sciences and Carol K. Pforzheimer Professor, Harvard Radcliffe Institute; and Professor of Public Health, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health  

Mitchell Elkind, MD, MS, FAHA
Chief Clinical Science Officer, American Heart Association

Rachel Fisher, MPH, RDN
Acting Executive Director, President's Council on Sports, Fitness and Nutrition, HHS Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion

Craig Gundersen, PhD
Snee Family Endowed Chair, Baylor Collaborative on Hunger and Poverty (BCHP), Professor, Department of Economics, Baylor University Hankamer School of Business

Carolyn Gunther, PhD, RD
ASN Community and Public Health Nutrition Research Interest Section Past Chair, Martha S. Pitzer Center for Women, Children, and Youth Associate Professor, Department of Nursing, The Ohio State University; Director of the Office of Community Outreach and Engagement

Caree Jackson Cotwright, PhD, RDN
Director of Nutrition Security and Heath Equity, USDA FNS

Amanda MacFarlane, PhD
ASN Committee on Advocacy and Science Policy Chair, Founding Director of the Agriculture, Food, and Nutrition Evidence Center at Texas A&M University

Learning Objectives

1. Review the goals and pillars of the 2022 White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health and highlight progress towards them
2. Recognize the state of the science for nutrition and food security research
3. Identify future funding opportunities for nutrition and food security research