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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...
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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.
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