Food and Nutrition

Improving Health Outcomes

How do we measure the impact of interventions designed to engage people to lead healthy and active lives? Altarum 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 in more than 40 states and territories. Our team of experts includes registered dietitians with decades of evaluation experience and subject matter expertise in nutrition security, obesity, physical activity, SNAP-Ed, and WIC.

We work directly with partners that are funding and implementing public health nutrition and chronic disease prevention initiatives to help them maximize their impact in ways that will help lead to better outcomes in diet, physical activity, health status, and equity. Explore our impactful work below.

Our Food and Nutrition Expertise in Practice

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Case Study

Assessing the Impact of SNAP-Ed in Maine

Our health analysts assessed the impact of “Pick a Better Snack,” a nutrition education program in Maine.

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FOCUS AREAS: Maternal and Child Health
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Helping Illinois SNAP-Ed Make Evidence-Informed Decisions

Our analyses of University of Illinois SNAP-Ed’s community network approach seek to strengthen programs locally and nationally.

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FOCUS AREAS: Maternal and Child Health
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Building the Evidence Base for the Good Food for All 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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FOCUS AREAS: Maternal and Child Health, Food and Nutrition

News and Publications

News
January 04, 2024

New Research in Preventing Chronic Disease Evaluates Distribution Model to Increase Access to Affordable Fruits and Vegetables

The Altarum Food and Nutrition team examined the impact on fruit and vegetable intake of Good Food at Home program, with support by Partnership for a Healthier America.

Upcoming Events

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Event
October 27 - October 30, 2024

Altarum’s Work to be Featured at 2024 American Public Health Association (APHA) Annual Meeting

Attending the 2024 APHA Annual Meeting? Let’s connect. Learn more about our work in Military and Veterans Health and an oral presentation on food and nutrition. 

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Event
July 29 - August 01, 2024

Altarum to Present at SNEB 2024

Altarum’s work will take the stage at Society for Nutrition Education and Behavior (SNEB)’s international conference with a presentation on improving food access with produce credits at brick-and-mortar versus online with Partnership for a Healthier America (PHA), City of Indianapolis, and Instacart. and a poster presentation on Maine’s State Nutrition Action Council.

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Event
February 05 - February 08, 2024

Altarum to Present at the 2024 Association of SNAP Nutrition Education Administrators (ASNNA) Annual Conference

Food and nutrition expert Becca Hofer from Altarum will present at the 2024 ASNNA Conference. The objective of this year’s conference is to explore, examine, and enhance the practice SNAP-Ed programming to empower communities and foster nutrition security.

Experts

Karah Manitnan

Karah Mantinan

Program Director, Food and Nutrition
So O'Neil

So O'Neil

Senior Director, Community Health