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Nutrition Policy Institute News: Article

Study examines differences in California parent’s perceptions of school meals during COVID by race and ethnicity

January 29, 2024

By Brianna Aguayo Villalon, Wendi Gosliner, Monica D Zuercher

In May 2020, running until the end of the 2021-2022 school year, the US Congress authorized the US Department of Agriculture to issue nationwide waivers that allowed all schools to provide universal free school meals to mitigate the impacts of school closures as well as the broader economic challeng...

Nutrition Policy Institute News: Article

Study outlines strategies needed for financial stability in an evaluation of a food hub intervention

January 16, 2024

By Brianna Aguayo Villalon, Janice Kao, Gail M Woodward-Lopez

Nutrition Policy Institute researchers studied an intervention for the expansion of the Mandela Health and Wealth Net, a food hub-based healthy retail initiative located in Oakland, California.

Nutrition Policy Institute News: Article

Editorial urges bold action for equitable access to nutrition assistance by all

December 20, 2023

By Danielle Lee, Wendi Gosliner, Lorrene D Ritchie

More Americans are now sick with diet-related conditions than are well.

Nutrition Policy Institute News: Article

Study finds that SNAP and WIC stores offer healthier food retail environment in low-income California neighborhoods

December 19, 2023

By Brianna Aguayo Villalon, Miranda W Brown, Richard Pulvera

A recent study examined how stores' participation in federal assistance programs, such as Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program commonly known as WIC and SNAP or CalFresh in Californiainfluence the availability and q...

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NPI's director of community health Suzanne Rauzon retires

December 18, 2023

By Danielle Lee, Lorrene D Ritchie

Suzanne Rauzon, director of community health for the Nutrition Policy Institute, will retire in January 2024. Rauzon's University of California career began over twenty years ago when she joined the UC Berkeley Center for Weight and Health, which joined NPI in 2015.