Nutrition Policy Institute

Schools are an ideal setting for policy, systems, and environmental (PSE) approaches to childhood obesity prevention.

Lorrene Ritchie, cooperative extension nutrition specialist and director of the Nutrition Policy Institute, was awarded the title of Platinum Author in 2022 by the Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior.

The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC) is the third-largest USDA nutrition assistance program, providing nutrition education and benefits for buying nutritious food for mothers and families with children up to age five with low income.

Sufficient physical activity during childhood is critical to support children's current and future health. Schools across the country use fitness testing to assess and track student fitness, often reporting results to parents.

The Nutrition Policy Institute welcomed Carolyn Chelius on January 7, 2022 as a project policy analyst.

A Green Schools National Network blog post about safe drinking water in schools written by Nutrition Policy Institute senior policy advisor, Christina Hecht, was the network's number four most-read blog in 2021.

California's Free School Meals for All (FSMFA) policy is a landmark investment in free school meals for all students that may reduce stigma and improve students' food security, diet, health, school attendance and academic performance. It will be implemented beginning in school year 2022-23.

The National WIC Association, alongside researchers from the University of California Nutrition Policy Institute and Pepperdine University, released a new report that reveals high levels of satisfaction among participants in the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children...

University of California Nutrition Policy Institute researchers will work with the National WIC Association to evaluate the effect of increases to the amount of money participants in the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC) receive to spend on fruits and veget...

Researchers at Public Health Foundation Enterprise-WIC in partnership with the University of California Nutrition Policy Institute released a policy brief showing results of an increase in over $50 million across California on fruits and vegetables purchased by California families enrolled in WIC fr...