Food security
Closing the School Breakfast Gap
Food security
The School Breakfast Program helps children, regardless of household income, can start their school day with a meal. However, many eligible students are unable to take advantage of this program due to transportation barriers, limited time, or not being eligible for a free or reduced-price meal. This project explores these barriers and how to overcome them.
From Translation to Transformation: Medically Tailored Meals and Food is Medicine Approaches for Reducing Health Disparities in Diabetes Management
Food security
This project aims to evaluate how a comprehensive Medically Tailored Meals program offered in St. Louis can improve outcomes for adults with type 2 diabetes.
Implementation of School Meal Program Flexibilities
Food security
This is a four year R01 study funded by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health to assess nationwide policy implementation and decision-making processes and develop an agent-based model to demonstrate how policy changes affect school district meal program implementation.
Nourishing Healthy Starts
Food security
This study is an evaluation of the Fresh Rx: Nourishing Heathy Starts, a program administered by Operation Food Search providing food and nutrition supports to food insecure pregnant women to improve health and birth outcomes.
WIC Innovation in Missouri
Food security
Missouri’s Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) program is important for the nutrition and health of recipients. Yet, only 53% of eligible Missourians have enrolled in WIC in recent years, and program participation rates have declined over the past decade. Operation Food Search (OFS) and Missouri Foundation for Health are examining ways to increase program enrollment and remove barriers to participation for WIC-eligible Missourians.