NJHKI’s Dr. Erin Comollo and Dr. Peggy Policastro and MPH student Abigail David presented in a live webinar on the importance of understanding food literacy. The emerging framework of food literacy is a comprehensive concept including nutrition knowledge, culinary skills, and behavior change and has been demonstrated to improve nutritional intake and health outcomes (Amin […]
NJHKI’s Drs. Comollo & Policastro presented at virtual SNEB Meeting
Drs. Erin Comollo and Peggy Policastro both presented NJHKI’s research at the Society of Nutrition Education and Behavior (SNEB) virtual meeting. They presented Bodacious Broccoli: Assessing Preschool-Aged Children’s Liking and Acceptance of Broccoli in Different Cooking Forms, where the abstract was also published in the Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior. Check out the abstract […]
NJHKI Food Literacy Camp Goes Virtual
NJHKI launched “Grow. Prepare. Eat.”—a free virtual food literacy program offered during Summer 2020. For this pilot program, 50 participants are engaging in a six-week virtual food literacy class to learn about the source of their food, the process that food goes through from seed to plate, and how to choose, prepare, and enjoy healthy, safe, […]
Healthy Families Action Team of Health NJ 2030
New Jersey Healthy Kids Initiative Medical Director, Dr. David Krol, has been selected to serve on the Healthy Families Action Team of Healthy NJ 2030, the state’s 2030 overall health improvement plan. As a member of the Healthy Families Action Team, Dr. Krol will help develop topic area recommendations for the Healthy NJ 2030 State […]
NJHKI Supports Meal Deliveries to Local New Brunswick Families
The New Jersey Healthy Kids Initiative has partnered with Greater Brunswick Charter School (GBCS) for a couple of years to provide nutrition education, culinary literacy, and physical activity programs and activities to its students. This has included biweekly field trips for kindergarten and seventh graders to attend the IFNH’s Center for Nutrition, Exercise, and Metabolism […]
