Since March 2020, the COVID-19 Food and Nutrition Work Group has evolved to respond to the implications of the COVID-19 pandemic on children and their family’s diet quality, food security, and overall health and well-being. Following the end of the Federal Public Health Emergency, the COVID-19 Food and Nutrition Work Group has now relaunched as the Resilient Food Systems and Nutrition Work Group. The work group, co-led with HER, will concentrate on how emergencies and environmental related disruptions affect the food system and access to food and nutrition at the individual, household, and community levels. The overall goal of the work group is to identify, evaluate, and disseminate the most effective strategies to promote food security, diet quality, and overall health and well-being during and after disruptions and environmental changes.
To learn more about the Work Group, click here.
Previous COVID-19 WG Resources
Webinar
If you are interested in the recordings of any of these webinars, please email [email protected] to request it.
Resources
- McLoughlin, G. M., Fleischhacker, S., Hecht, A. A., McGuirt, J., Vega, C., Read, M., Colón-Ramos, U., & Dunn, C. G. Feeding Students during COVID-19 Related School Closures: Summary of Initial Pandemic Response and Recommendations for Communication and O
- Strengthening the Impact of USDA’s Child Nutrition Summer Feeding Programs During and After the COVID-19 Pandemic (Healthy Eating Research)
- Lane HG, Turner L, Dunn CG, Hager ER, Fleischhacker S. Leveraging implementation science in the public health response to COVID-19: Child food insecurity and federal nutrition assistance programs. Public Health Reports. 2020.
- Bauer K, Chiriqui J, Andreyeva T, Kenney E, Stage V, Dev D, Lessard L, Tovar A. A Safety Net Unraveling: Feeding Young Children during COVID-19. Am J Public Health. 2020:e1-e4.
- Bleich S, Dunn C, Fleischhacker S. Increase SNAP benefits to stabilize the economy, reduce poverty and food insecurity: An evidence-based policy approach. Healthy Eating Research Issue Brief. April 2020.