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NPI’s Wendi Gosliner helps define plant-based food and assesses the policy landscape facing the plant-based food industry in Plant Futures online webinar

April 13, 2022

By Danielle Lee, Wendi Gosliner

Wendi Gosliner, senior researcher and policy advisor at the Nutrition Policy Institute, will co-present on Thursday, Apr. 14 a webinar on Defining and expanding plant-based food: Why it matters and where it's headed'.

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New research brief describes an innovative school district food distribution hub connecting local growers with institutional buyers to increase access to fresh, local, high-quality produce

April 12, 2022

By Danielle Lee, Ron Strochlic, Kenneth Hecht, Lorrene D Ritchie

A new Nutrition Policy Institute research brief describes the benefits of an innovative food distribution hub run by a school district the first of its kind in the nation.

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Nutrition Policy Institute research on school meals during COVID-19 and school drinking water promotion for obesity prevention presented at the Pediatric Academic Societies 2022 meeting

April 8, 2022

By Danielle Lee

Nutrition Policy Institute researchers will be sharing results from their latest studies at the upcoming Pediatric Academic Societies 2022 Meeting.

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NPI director Lorrene Ritchie is USDA NIFA featured researcher in honor of Women’s History Month

March 31, 2022

By Danielle Lee

Nutrition Policy Institute inaugural director and UC Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources cooperative extension nutrition specialist, Lorrene Ritchie, was featured in the USDA National Institute for Food and Agriculture's Women's History Month spotlight on March 21, 2022.

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Marisa Tsai receives UC Berkeley Cheri Pies award for her doctoral studies to examine intergenerational transmission of food security

March 30, 2022

By Danielle Lee

Marisa Tsai, researcher at the University of California Nutrition Policy Institute, received the UC Berkeley School of Public Health Cheri Pies award for her doctoral work to examine intergenerational transmission of food security.

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