Texas Grow! Eat! Go! program received the National Extension Diversity Award at the annual meeting of the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities in November 2015. The award honors an extension program that contributes to achieving and sustaining diversity and pluralism. The national Cooperative Extension association and the United States Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture awarded the five-year program. Collaboration from AgriLife Extension, Texas A&M University, the University of Texas School of Public Health, and the Texas A&M Health Science Center School of Public Health created the program to improve physical activity and eating behaviors of families and children living in low-income and underserved areas of ...
New funding has been awarded to train school staff to prepare and procure fresh farm foods for school districts across New York state. Funding from farm-to-school program grants helps develop and strengthen connections between local farms and schools. This in turns helps increase access to fresh fruits and vegetables for students through various programming like student gardens, farm field trips, or even hands-on cooking lessons. The communities receiving funding are Buffalo School District, Cooperative Extension in Schoharie and Otsego Counties, Rensselaer County schools, Saranac Lake schools, Seneca County Cooperative Extension and Broome-Delaware-Tioga BOCES. Daily consuming fresh fruits and vegetables are a great way to sustain a healthy diet for kids in ...
Spreading the word about how to improve Latino health is a dire need. That’s why we at the Institute for Health Promotion Research (IHPR) at The UT Health Science Center at San Antonio created our Salud America! program, formerly called SaludToday. We recently won a trio of Web Health Awards for our digital efforts to raise awareness for Latino health from the Health Information Resource Center, which gives awards twice annually for online health information. We earned a “gold” award for our @SaludAmerica Twitter feed, a "silver" award for our Growing Healthy Change Platform and a "bronze" award for the Salud Heroes story "Wild About Health." Please help us continue to raise awareness of Latino health issues and solutions by following us on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, ...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) awarded $2 million in grants recently to support research on nutrient education and obesity prevention for disadvantaged children and families. “Childhood obesity rates in America have tripled over the past three decades,” said NIFA Director Sonny Ramaswamy. “While we are beginning to see promising signs of progress with the epidemic leveling off in children, these grants will help evaluate and strengthen existing nutrition education and obesity prevention efforts to help ensure this progress continues.” Funding has been granted to the University of Tennessee, Knoxville and Utah State University in Logan, UT. The funding will help create two additional Regional Nutrition Education and ...
Efforts to reduce health disparities among Latinos received a boost as $23.5 million was awarded for two new studies. Research teams from the University of Alabama and Johns Hopkins University were selected by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The two studies will compare ways to improve blood pressure and close the health disparities gaps experienced by Latinos. Previous research has rarely targeted these high-risk populations. “Even as health outcomes associated with blood pressure control have improved nationwide, striking disparities remain among racial and ethnic minorities, low-income individuals and rural residents,” said Dr. Romana Hanain-Wynia, Director of the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) Addressing Disparities Program. “This suggests ...
USDA Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC) announces the Loving Support Award of Excellence program to recognize local WIC agencies that have provided exemplary breastfeeding promotion and support activities. Obesity risk is a grave concern facing WIC agencies because low-income children are at the greatest risk for obesity and are the least likely to breastfeed. In California, 80% of Latina women initiate breastfeeding, but only 29% breastfeed exclusively while in the hospital. Since a major goal of the WIC Program is to improve the nutritional status of infants, WIC mothers are encouraged to breastfeed their infants, and WIC agencies are provided with evidence-based programs and training, such as breastfeeding peer counselors, to support WIC ...
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsak announced that the USDA will award $2.6 million to support the new national professional standards for nutrition employees who manage and operate school lunch and breakfast programs in 19 states, and will award $5.6 million to help 19 states expand and enhance food service training programs and provide nutrition education in school, child care, and summer meal settings through the Team Nutrition Training Grant. The goal is to develop an educated workforce and sustainable programs to create healthy environments in order to improve children's lifelong eating and physical activity habits. States receiving Team Nutrition grants identify that many children in childcare enjoy healthier meals, and along with their parents and caregivers, are exposed to ...
Are you a post-doctoral fellow or a new investigator interested in research funding opportunities? The National Cancer Institute’s (NCI’s) Center to Reduce Cancer Health Disparities (CRCHD) and GMaP Region 4 invites you to participate in career mentored and non-mentored research opportunities. The deadlines to apply to the following programs are: June 12 and October 12. NCI Mentored Research Scientist Development Award to Promote Diversity (K01) BASIC/POPULATION SCIENCE Individuals with Research or Health Professional Doctoral Degree
100K Salary/30K R&D; • 3 - 5 years support NCI Mentored Clinical Scientist Research Career Development Award to Promote Diversity (K08) TRANSLATION Individuals with Health Professional ...
The Salud Heroes video series shows how real people have made healthy changes for Latino kids across the country, to inspire others to make similar changes. Now the series can be called "award-winning." More than 40 awards have been given to the Salud Heroes video series and online Growing Healthy Change website, which are produced by Salud America!, a Latino childhood obesity research network funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and led by Dr. Amelie Ramirez of the Institute for Health Promotion Research at the UT Health Science Center at San Antonio. The recognition is from the AVA Digital Awards, Communicator Awards, Telly Awards, Aurora Awards, Web Health Awards, HERMES Awards, Davey Awards, and W³ Awards. Just this week, Rick Carrillo, Salud America! TV ...
