NIH Launches Nutrition Education Challenge
- NIH seeks innovative solutions for nutrition training
- Academic institutions can participate in a nationwide challenge
- Focus is on integrating nutrition into healthcare education
The NASA Center of Excellence for Collaborative Innovation (CoECI) facilitates crowdsourcing initiatives within the federal government, providing capabilities to conduct challenges for various agencies.
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of Nutrition Research (ONR) has introduced the "Integration of Nutrition Training into Health Care Education" Challenge, aimed at accredited non-profit academic institutions in the U.S.
ONR is committed to advancing research on the multifaceted aspects of nutrition and its vital impact on health throughout the lifespan. This challenge seeks to discover, assess, and promote effective, scalable, evidence-based methods for embedding nutrition training into medical and nursing curricula, addressing both established educational programs and promising new models.