Health Impacts

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Applying Racial Equity to U.S. Federal Nutrition Assistance Programs: SNAP, WIC and Child Nutrition

ENDING HUNGER in a lasting, sustainable way requires identifying and resolving its root causes. While hunger and poverty rates have declined nationwide, people of color consistently have far higher rates […]

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Maternal Health Visionary Spotlight: Dr. Joia Crear-Perry, National Birth Equity Collaborative founder and president, calls on us to value every woman to achieve maternal health equity

Dr. Joia Crear-Perry was led to a career fighting to eliminate racial disparities in maternal and infant health through her own experiences as a Black mother. Pregnant with her first […]

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“How am I going to become her friend?” WIC Breastfeeding peer counselors and cultural competence with African-American women: A qualitative secondary analysis

This qualitative study explored Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) peer counselors’ (PCs) cultural competence in their relationships with African American (AA) clients. A secondary analysis of […]

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Ten Equity Implications of The Coronavirus COVID-19 Outbreak in the United States (NAACP)

Ten equity implications of the Coronacirus COVID-19 outbreak in the United States piece from the NAACP.

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Association of Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children With Preterm Birth and Infant Mortality

In December 2019, the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) published a national-based cohort study from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. The goal of the study was to […]

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A Call to Action: Screening Fathers for Perinatal Depression

In early 2019, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) released a policy statement1 recognizing that “maternal depression affects the whole family” and urging pediatric providers to “incorporate recognition and management of […]

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Relationships Between the Great Recession and Widening Maternal and Child Health Disparities: Findings from Washington and Florida

The purpose of this study was to explore relationships between the Great Recession in the United States and maternal and child health (MCH) disparities in prenatal care, birth weight, gestational […]

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WIC Works: Addressing the Nutrition and Health Needs of Low-Income Families for 40 Years

Over four decades, researchers have investigated WIC’s effects on key measures of child health such as birth weight, infant mortality, diet quality and nutrient intake, initiation and duration of breastfeeding, […]

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Maternal diet during lactation and breast-feeding practices have synergistic association with child diet at 6 years

Objective: Children breast-fed during infancy consume more fruits and vegetables than formula-fed children. This pattern is likely due, in part, to infant learning from flavours of the mother’s diet transmitted […]

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How WIC Gives Children a Healthy Start, Preventing Obesity in Early Childhood

In this blog, Georgia Machell, PhD, Senior Director, Research & Program Operations for the National WIC Association, and Jim Weill, J.D., President of Food Research & Action Center (FRAC), are interviewed […]

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