Key Policy Areas
We have recently narrowed our advocacy to three key areas to concentrate our efforts, leverage our expertise, and maximize our policy impact.
Advocacy targets include:
- Promoting Medicare and Medicaid pilots of Medically Tailored Meals
- Increasing coverage of nutrition-related services through private insurance programs
- Expanding Medicaid coverage of nutrition education and other nutrition supports using Medicaid section 1115 demonstration projects
Advocacy targets include:
- Funding for relevant nutrition-focused policy in federal agencies, such as NIH Office of Nutrition Research
- Advancing efforts toward federal nutrition research (such as the new OSTP + PCAST plan, ICHNR) as outlined in the National Strategy on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health
- Supporting USDA research and funding focused on the intersections of production agriculture, human health, and sustainability/soil health
Advocacy targets include:
- Making nutrition a core goal metric of SNAP program
- Establishing SNAP pilots with a focus on advancing nutrition security
- Collecting and making available for research SNAP purchase data