A systematic review on Healthy School Meals for All highlights numerous benefits to students and schools, including to diet quality, academic performance, and school finances. See all 7 key findings in our new infographic: bit.ly/3v6EWdJ

Yes California! 🎉🎉🎉 #SchoolMealsforAll

Our paper, w/ the first interventional evidence that reducing #foodinsecurity improves women's mental health, was selected as #paperofthemonth by Nutrition Society! Led by Northwestern Anthropology & Nutritional Sciences at Cornell's Marianne "Vicky" Santoso, PhD & Weinberg College at Northwestern & NU Global Health's Hollyn Cetrone 💗. What an honor! 👑

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CA is 1st US state to institute Univ Free School Meals-it's more impt than ever to understand barriers & facilitators to school meal participation to reduce #foodinsecurity. Explore our research & recs: cup.org/2Usw460 Cultiva La Salud Dolores Huerta Foundation Stanford Medicine UC Nutrition Policy

Congratulations to Ashley Jowell for leading this important and timely study. Thanks to funders of this study and related research: Stanford Office of Diversity In Medical Education Stanford Office of Faculty Development and Diversity VoicesForHealthyKids Sierra Health Fdn No Kid Hungry California

Thanks to Valeria Ordonez Valeria Ordonez for sharing her perspectives on working with Cultiva La Salud Dolores Huerta Foundation UC Nutrition Policy local schools and parents to address food insecurity in the San Joaquin Valley. youtu.be/UmJzujVat-4 via YouTube

Rain🌧 or shine🌞, happy to be back in the field at schools in the San Joaquin Valley with Anisha Patel Anisha Patel MD and Valeria Ordonez Valeria Ordonez! Big thanks to all of our amazing study partners! UC Nutrition Policy Dolores Huerta Foundation Cultiva La Salud #fieldwork

Shout out to Jeff Ezennia UC Riverside on new paper "Association of park drinking water source characteristics and water intake in SF Bay Area parks." iwaponline.com/h2open/article… UCSF IHPS UCSF Global Health SF Water Power Sewer RVargas

Congratulations to Jeff Ezennia, medical student UC Riverside for publishing this study funded by an @nih_nhlbi supplement he was awarded.

AB 2638 is signed! Children in California will now have water filling stations at school for their drinking bottles. Thank you Gov. Gavin Newsom and Assemblymember Richard Bloom for supporting a healthy school environment!

Stanford Office of Child Health Equity and Stanford Maternal & Child Health Research Inst.'s Anisha Patel MD tells us how engaging a local community about their health concerns can lead to impactful discoveries and interventions. youtu.be/4wXfiIRr-ms

Ready for flu season! 💉 #flubeforeboo 👻

Dept. of Agriculture Thank you for working to reduce #addedsugar in children’s school meals through your new proposed rule. Our brief explains why this is an urgent action to improve nutrition security in US children. static1.squarespace.com/static/5b7b489…

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Yesterday we presented our work about #AddedSugar in #SchoolMeals at the Stanford Pediatrics Research Retreat. We were honored to receive an outstanding poster presentation award. Congratulations team! Anisha Patel MD Lauren Blacker Valeria Ordonez UC Nutrition Policy Dolores Huerta Foundation Cultiva La Salud JT MD

Inequalities in access to clean water, sanitation, and hygiene facilities are leaving vulnerable populations behind. Read the latest joint report by WHO & UNICEF bit.ly/3psFf64

New research in @aap_peds: Water First #school #drinkingwater intervention shows promise in preventing childhood overweight ⇨ 3.2 % point difference in overweight among students in intervention v. control schools after 1 yr! ucnpi.co/waterfirst #NationalDrinkingWaterAlliance

Our study with UCSF IHPS & UC Nutrition Policy found that the Water First school water intervention shows promise in overweight prevention. Thanks to the schools, parents, students, advisors, & researchers who contributed. Video results/materials in English/Spanish: researchinchildhealth.org/resources/wate…

How water-bottle fill stations can impact children’s health, according to a new study... via CNN features our collaborative Stanford Pediatrics UC Nutrition Policy UCSF IHPS Water First study, which evaluated a #school #drinkingwater promotion intervention. 🥤🏫cnn.com/2023/08/10/hea…