A Call for Theory to Guide Equity-Focused Federal Child Nutrition Program Policy Responses and Recovery Efforts in Times of Public Health Crisis

Affiliations

¹ School of Health Sciences, Merrimack College, North Andover, Massachusetts; Department of Nutrition, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts. Electronic address: cohenj@merrimack.edu.
² Department of Allied Health Sciences, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut; Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity, University of Connecticut, Hartford, Connecticut.
³ Division of Nutritional Sciences, College of Human Ecology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York.
⁴ Mathematica, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Juliana F W Cohen et al. J Acad Nutr Diet. 2023 Jan.

. 2023 Jan;123(1):15-28.

doi: 10.1016/j.jand.2022.07.016. Epub 2022 Aug 5.

¹ School of Health Sciences, Merrimack College, North Andover, Massachusetts; Department of Nutrition, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts. Electronic address: cohenj@merrimack.edu.
² Department of Allied Health Sciences, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut; Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity, University of Connecticut, Hartford, Connecticut.
³ Division of Nutritional Sciences, College of Human Ecology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York.
⁴ Mathematica, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Keywords: Emergency response; Nutrition; Policy; Public health; Theory.

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