Strengthening national nutrition research: rationale and options for a new coordinated federal research effort and authority.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The US faces remarkable food and nutrition challenges. A new federal effort to strengthen and coordinate nutrition research could rapidly generate the evidence base needed to address these multiple national challenges. However, the relevant characteristics of such an effort have been uncertain.

Objectives

Our aim was to provide an objective, informative summary of 1) the mounting diet-related health burdens facing our nation and corresponding economic, health equity, national security, and sustainability implications; 2) the current federal nutrition research landscape and existing mechanisms for its coordination; 3) the opportunities for and potential impact of new fundamental, clinical, public health, food and agricultural, and translational scientific discoveri

SUBMITTER: Fleischhacker SE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7454258 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature