Food and Nutrition
Improving Health Outcomes
How do we measure the impact of interventions designed to engage people to lead healthy and active lives? How can we determine what strategies would best support priority populations in consuming a healthier diet and being more physically active? Altarum’s Food and Nutrition team provides comprehensive research, evaluation, and implementation solutions to organizations working to promote healthy lifestyles and reduce the risk of preventable chronic diseases.
Altarum has supported organizations with evaluation and implementation services for over three decades, working with more than 40 states and territories. Our team of experts includes registered dietitians, researchers, statisticians, and analysts with decades of experience providing expert support to our partners to help them advance their goals and improve their impact. Our team has subject matter expertise in nutrition security, obesity and chronic disease prevention, physical activity, and food and nutrition programs including Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC), nutrition incentive programs, and more.
We work directly with partners to help them maximize their impact in ways that will help lead to better outcomes in diet, physical activity, and health status. Our team offers robust research and evaluation capabilities, as well as support to clients through conducting formative research, process and outcome evaluations, needs assessments, strategic planning, environmental scans, literature reviews, translation and synthesis of scientific information for various audiences, communications message testing, data visualizations, cost-benefit and return on investment analyses, training and technical support, capacity building, and robust mixed-methods data collection and analysis. We meet partners where they are, providing thoughtful solutions tailored to their needs, timeline, resources, and capacity. Explore our impactful work below.
Our Food and Nutrition Expertise in Practice
Evaluation of Summer Nutrition and SNAP Food Restriction Waiver in Iowa
Our work is generating evidence to inform nutrition assistance programming in Iowa.
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Demonstrating the Value of SNAP-Ed in Illinois
Through social marketing evaluation and economic modeling, Altarum assessed the behavioral and societal value of large-scale nutrition education efforts in Illinois.
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I Matter: Strengthening the WIC Workforce
Our support is helping to build a stronger WIC workforce through improved staffing models and training.
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Building the Evidence Base for the Good Food at Home Program
With Altarum’s insight and expertise, Partnership for a Healthier America is developing new strategies to expand access to healthy foods for all.
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