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\"Christopher<\/a>

Christopher E. Anderson, PhD, MSPH<\/p><\/div>\n

Christopher Anderson, assistant professor in the Department of Public Health, received the 2025 WIC Learning Collaborative Research Impact Award, recognizing outstanding research contributions that advance the understanding of the WIC program its impact on maternal and child health for his publication, \u201cWIC service use, benefit redemption, and continued participation among participants in California\u201d in the Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. The WIC Learning Collaborative is a joint effort of\u00a0Healthy Eating Research (HER) and the\u00a0Nutrition and Obesity Policy and Research Network (NOPREN) .<\/p>\n

Christopher had this to say about his award-winning study: “The WIC program provides essential nutrition assistance to support healthy diets among young children in the US. Flexible delivery of WIC services (in-person and\/or remote), first introduced during the COVID-19 pandemic, is associated with higher use of WIC\u2019s healthy food benefits and continued WIC participation. These findings can help inform the WIC service model in the future, and this is critical as Congress considers bills to codify these flexible services into law and make WIC easier for families to access.”<\/p>\n

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