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Alyce Fly, PhD
Professor and Chair, Nutrition and Health Science
Ball State University
Muncie, Indiana, United States
Disclosure(s): No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.
Dariush Mozaffarian, MD, DrPH
Dean
Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Tufts University
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Disclosure(s): Acasti Pharma: Consultant (Ongoing)
Barilla: Consultant (Ongoing)
Beren Therapeutics: Advisory Committee/Board Member (Ongoing)
Brightseed: Advisory Committee/Board Member (Ongoing)
Calibrate: Advisory Committee/Board Member (Ongoing); Ownership Interest (Ongoing)
Danone: Consultant (Ongoing)
Day Two: Advisory Committee/Board Member (Terminated)
Discern Dx: Advisory Committee/Board Member (Ongoing)
Elysium Health: Advisory Committee/Board Member (Ongoing)
Filtricine: Advisory Committee/Board Member (Ongoing)
Gates Foundation: Grant/Research Support (Ongoing)
HumanCo: Advisory Committee/Board Member (Ongoing); Ownership Interest (Ongoing)
January Inc.: Advisory Committee/Board Member (Ongoing)
Kaiser Permanente: Grant/Research Support (Ongoing)
Motif FoodWorks: Consultant (Ongoing)
National Institutes of Health: Grant/Research Support (Ongoing)
Perfect Day: Advisory Committee/Board Member (Ongoing)
Season Health: Advisory Committee/Board Member (Terminated)
The Rockefeller Foundation: Grant/Research Support (Ongoing)
Tiny Organics: Advisory Committee/Board Member (Ongoing)
UpToDate: Royalties or Patent Beneficiary (Ongoing)
Vail Innovative Global Research: Grant/Research Support (Ongoing)
Angela Odoms-Young, PhD
Associate Professor
Cornell University
Ithaca, New York, United States
Disclosure(s): American Heart Association: Advisory Committee/Board Member (Ongoing)
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Grant/Research Support (Ongoing)
Cornell University: Employee (Ongoing)
Feeding America: Advisory Committee/Board Member (Ongoing); Grant/Research Support (Ongoing)
National Institutes of Health: Grant/Research Support (Ongoing)
United States Department of Agriculture: Grant/Research Support (Ongoing)
Shannon Zenk, PhD, MPH, RN, FAAN
Director
National Institute of Nursing Research
Bethesda, Maryland, United States
Disclosure(s): No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.
In May of 2020, NIH released the first-ever, strategic plan for nutrition research emphasizing a Precision Nutrition model focused on “food as medicine”. Over the next ten years, the 2020-2030 Strategic Plan for NIH Nutrition Research will advance nutrition science via “innovative technologies and interdisciplinary teams.” Key initiatives focus on:
1) Discovery and Innovation through Foundational Research, 2) Investigating the Role of Dietary Patterns and Behaviors for Optimal Health, 3) Defining the Role of Nutrition Across the Lifespan, and 4) Reducing the Burden of Disease in Clinical Settings. Particular emphasis is focused on training the nutrition scientific workforce to solve the nation’s most pressing “nutrition-related health problems”.
There has been national interest in training current and future generations of healthcare workers on how to implement evidence-based nutrition into clinical practice to optimize patient health outcomes. Despite a growing body of research reinforcing the importance of a food as medicine approach, gaps persist in adopting a multidisciplinary approach to translate evidence-based nutrition research into clinical and community settings (e.g. limited nutrition education training among frontline healthcare workers). Further efforts focused on improvements to translational research and delivery science are needed for proper training and associated delivery among healthcare professionals.
To address this important topic, the Community and Public Health Nutrition (CPHN) forum as part of the Nutrition 2022 Live Online annual meeting held by the American Society for Nutrition (ASN) will bring together a multidisciplinary team of healthcare scientists and clinicians to discuss their perspectives on the best ways to incorporate precision nutrition into the healthcare setting.