Source: AUBURN UNIVERSITY submitted to NRP
SNAP INCENTIVES RESEARCH WORKSHOP
Sponsoring Institution
National Institute of Food and Agriculture
Project Status
COMPLETE
Funding Source
AFRI COMPETITIVE GRANT
Reporting Frequency
Annual
Accession No.
1031475
Grant No.
2023-68015-41287
Cumulative Award Amt.
$32,088.00
Proposal No.
2023-06103
Multistate No.
(N/A)
Project Start Date
Sep 15, 2023
Project End Date
Mar 14, 2024
Grant Year
2023
Program Code
[A1344]- Diet, Nutrition and the Prevention of Chronic Disease
Recipient Organization
AUBURN UNIVERSITY
108 M. WHITE SMITH HALL
AUBURN,AL 36849
Performing Department
(N/A)
Non Technical Summary
Many households in the United States participate in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). While SNAP has been shown to improve food security, low-income Americans, including SNAP participants, spend less on fruit and vegetables and have higher rates of obesity and diet-related diseases than higher-income Americans. To encourage SNAP participants to purchase healthier foods, policies have been proposed to either restrict SNAP benefits to healthy foods or to provide incentives to purchase healthier foods. Current policy has focused on incentives, with the implementation of federal programs such as the Gus Schumacher Nutrition Incentive Program (GusNIP) and the Healthy Fluid Milk Incentives (HFMI) program, as well as local initiatives such as North Carolina's Healthy Opportunity Pilots program.This project will organize an in-person workshop for researchers focusing on SNAP healthy eating incentives such as GusNIP. The workshop will enable researchers to get feedback on projects about SNAP healthy eating incentives and learn about other ongoing projects about SNAP healthy eating incentives.
Animal Health Component
100%
Research Effort Categories
Basic
0%
Applied
100%
Developmental
0%
Classification

Knowledge Area (KA)Subject of Investigation (SOI)Field of Science (FOS)Percent
70460993010100%
Knowledge Area
704 - Nutrition and Hunger in the Population;

Subject Of Investigation
6099 - People and communities, general/other;

Field Of Science
3010 - Economics;
Goals / Objectives
The overarching goal of this proposal is to begin the process of developing a collaborative working group on SNAP incentives by hosting an in-person conference. The proposed conference will allow researchers to present and receive feedback on current research investigating any aspect of SNAP nutrition incentive programs. In addition, the proposed conference will provide opportunities for researchers to network and discuss potential cross-discipline and cross-project collaborations.
Project Methods
Researchers will be invited to the in-person workshop, to be held in Auburn, AL, October 11-12, 2023. At the workshop, each researcher will present a research project relevant to SNAP healthy eating incentives. The other researchers will provide feedback. Researchers will also discuss plans for future research projects.

Progress 09/15/23 to 03/14/24

Outputs
Target Audience:Researchers working on projects investigating aspects of SNAP healthy eating incentives programs, such as GusNIP and Health Fluid Milk Incentives programs. Changes/Problems: Nothing Reported What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided?Training: Two Auburn University graduate students took part in the workshop, listening to the presentations and learning how to conduct research on SNAP incentives. Professional Development: All 17 researchers who attended the workshop were given peer feedback on projects. This feedback was designed to improve the research output from these projects. How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest?The workshop involved 17 research presentations, which disseminated information about each project to other interested researchers. What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals? Nothing Reported

Impacts
What was accomplished under these goals? On October 11-12, 2023, 17 researchers from academia, industry, government, and non-profits gathered together in Auburn, AL. Each researcher gave a presentation about a current research project on SNAP healthy eating incentives. Presentations were followed by a discussion about each project. Researchers gathered for more discussion about ways to improve research on SNAP incentives in additional informal settings.

Publications


    Progress 09/15/23 to 03/14/24

    Outputs
    Target Audience:Researchers who are currently working on research projects that investigate SNAP healthy eating incentives such as GusNIP or Healthy Fluid Milk Incentives. Changes/Problems: Nothing Reported What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided?Training: 2 Auburn University graduate students also attended the workshop and learned about the current state of SNAP healthy incentives research. Professional development: Each of the 17 researchers was given feedback on the research projects, with the goal of improving the quality of SNAP incentives research overall. How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest?Each of the 17 workshop attendees gave a presentation to the other attendees. The presentations allowed for the dissemination of good research practices as well as exciting results across the projects represented by the workshop attendees. What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals? Nothing Reported

    Impacts
    What was accomplished under these goals? On October 11-12, 2023, 17 researchers gathered in Auburn, AL. During the workshop, each researcher gave a presentation on a current research project about a SNAP healthy eating incentive program. The other researchers gave detailed feedback on each research project. Researchers also gathered for informal discussion about these projects and potential collaborations over one dinner, breakfast, and lunch.

    Publications


      Progress 09/15/23 to 03/01/24

      Outputs
      Target Audience:Researchers who are currently working on research projects that investigate SNAP healthy eating incentives such as GusNIP or Healthy Fluid Milk Incentives. Changes/Problems: Nothing Reported What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided?Training: 2 Auburn University graduate students also attended the workshop and learned about the current state of SNAP healthy incentives research. Professional development: Each of the 17 researchers was given feedback on the research projects, with the goal of improving the quality of SNAP incentives research overall. How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest?Each of the 17 workshop attendees gave a presentation to the other attendees. The presentations allowed for the dissemination of good research practices as well as exciting results across the projects represented by the workshop attendees. What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals? Nothing Reported

      Impacts
      What was accomplished under these goals? On October 11-12, 2023, 17 researchers gathered in Auburn, AL. During the workshop time period, each researcher gave a presentation on on a current research project about a SNAP healthy eating incentive program. The other researchers gave detailed feedback on each research project. Researchers also gathered for informal discussion about these projects and potential collaborations over one dinner, one breakfast, and one lunch.

      Publications