Scope: Research

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A Structural Race Analysis of First Food

According to the report, 44.7 percent of white mothers are still breastfeeding their infants at six months, compared with 27.5 percent of African-American mothers and 32.3 percent of U.S.-born Latina […]

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Race: The Power of Illusion, Ep. 3: The House We Live In

“The House We Live In,” is the first film about race to focus not on individual attitudes and behavior but on the ways our institutions and policies advantage some groups […]

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Unnatural Causes: When the Bough Breaks

Infant mortality rates among African Americans remain twice as high as among whites. African American women with graduate degrees still face a greater risk of delivering pre-term, low birth-weight babies […]

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Linking WIC for Health Equity: Expanding Access to WIC Through Horizontal Integration

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2022 State of WIC Toolkit

The National WIC Association released a new report, The State of WIC: Investing in the Next Generation. This second annual edition of the State of WIC report looks at WIC the past year, […]

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Millennial Cities: Community Planning Hub for Geospatial Tools

Millennial Cities is an interactive web-mapping site that aggregates and promotes interactive data tools pertaining to health, connectivity, social justice, equity, climate change, neighborhood and community planning, and more — […]

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The State of WIC: Investing in the Next Generation

The second State of WIC report – supported by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation – highlights the experience of WIC providers and participants throughout 2021. Effective program reforms, including the WIC […]

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Multi-state WIC Participant Satisfaction Survey: Learning from Program Adaptations During COVID

A report released by the National WIC Association (NWA), alongside researchers from the Nutrition Policy Institute (NPI) and Pepperdine University, explored WIC participant satisfaction and experience during the COVID-19 pandemic. […]

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Increasing the WIC Benefit Amount for Fruits and Vegetables to Support Healthy Families

This research brief outlines a case study, conducted by researchers from the University of California San Francisco, exploring the impacts of providing pregnant WIC participants with an additional subsidy for […]

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WIC Food Package Report Toolkit

The National WIC Association (NWA) released a WIC food package report entitled WIC Food Package: Impacts and Recommendations to Advance Nutrition Security on the WIC Hub. NWA’s report calls for a doubling of the value […]

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