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Food Assistance and Nutrition Programs: Fiscal 2002 Research Funding Opportunities

FANRP's Competitive Grants and Cooperative Agreements Program made awards in fiscal 2002 to fund research on Program Design and Operations; Food Assistance as a Safety Net; Obesity; Eating Patterns, Diet Quality, and Health Outcomes; and Behavioral Nutrition. The program is publicly announced and competitively awarded through the use of peer review panels.
(Click on the title for the project's description)

Investigator

City/State

Title

Award
amount

Program Design and Operations
Loren Bell
Health Systems Research, Inc.
Washington, DC An Assessment of the Impact of Medicaid Managed Care on WIC Program Coordination with Primary Care Services $291,052
Anne Gordon
Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.
Princeton, NJ WIC Innovative Practices Study $149,747

Christopher Logan
Abt Associates, Inc.

Cambridge, MA Trends in Food Stamp Program Certification Costs, 1989-2001 $245,143
Nancy Wemmerus
Mathematica Policy Resesarch, Inc.
Princeton, NJ Implementation of Options and Waivers to Increase Access to the Food Stamp Program $248,229
Food Assistance as a Safety Net
Judith Bartfeld
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Madison, WI State Predictors of Household Food Security $100,000
John Cook
Boston Medical Center
Boston, MA Food Security, Behavior Problems and Health Among Kindergarten and First-Grade Children in the Early Childhood Longitudinal Survey (ECLS) Data $214,768
David Ribar
The George Washington University
Washington, DC Welfare Transitions and Food Sufficiency: Evidence from South Carolina $149,994
Obesity
Patricia Crawford
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA Development of Eating Patterns and Obesity in Black Girls $399,943
Megan McCrory
Tufts University
Boston, MA

U.S. Trends in Associations of Eating Patterns with BMI throughout the Lifecycle

$228,250

Eating Patterns, Diet Quality, and Health Outcomes
Karen Cullen
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, TX Evaluation of Policy Change on Middle School Student Lunch Consumption $179,396
Theresa Nicklas
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, TX Eating Patterns and Diet Quality in Young Adults $150,000
Behavioral Nutrition
Suzanne Baxter
Medical College of Georgia (MCG) Research Institute, Inc.
Augusta, GA Understanding the Errors in Children's Dietary Recalls $180,000

 

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Updated date: December 18, 2006