Emphasis in Nutrition

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The public health programs we evaluate focus on bringing good nutrition into more lives — by helping to promote healthy eating active living, strengthen food security, build organizational advocacy capacity and incorporate health equity into programming and strategies.

This includes the promotion and assessment of healthy food access in schools, early care and education centers, neighborhoods and communities and other environments. It also includes the development and implementation of programs to facilitate healthy eating and active living while tracking and improving them along the way to ensure success. We also examine the coexistence of food insecurity and obesity and determine interventions for both that promote optimal dietary quality among all Americans.

Our research staff members have extensive experience with multi-level designs and accompanying statistical analyses, school food and physical activity environment, dietary and physical activity assessment, early care and education obesity prevention programs, tracking and assessing technical assistance, hunger studies, rural food access, health equity, food incentive programs, policy advocacy and more.

How We Work

Rooted in Omaha, Nebraska with a team geographically dispersed throughout the U.S., the Gretchen Swanson Center for Nutrition is a fully-staffed team of researchers collaborating with partners across the U.S. who implement or manage programs to improve health. Our partners work with integrity and compassion to bring about positive change in policies and environments that can facilitate healthier individuals.

We listen to our partners’ priorities, challenges and concerns to provide evidence of their hard work with the smartest research and evaluation tools we can collect or create. Not only do we help prove — or improve — their programs’ effectiveness, but we also provide high-quality, rigorous data to back it up.