Input Opportunity: White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health

This September, President Biden will convene the second White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health. The first conference, held in 1969, resulted in recommendations that led to the creation of WIC within five years. This is a pivotal opportunity to reorient national dialogues about nutrition and set the tenor for the next 50 years.

President Biden has indicated that the Conference will focus on two goals: ending hunger by 2030 and reducing chronic diet-related conditions, such as obesity, diabetes, and hypertension. To reach these goals, the Conference will be oriented around five pillars: improving food access and affordability, integrating nutrition and health, empowering all consumers to make and have access to healthy choices, supporting physical activity for all, and enhancing nutrition and food security research.

We welcome input from the WIC community as NWA prepares its own recommendations for the Conference. We encourage bold, forward-looking ideas, including ideas that extend beyond the four corners of WIC services.

1. Full name. *This question is required.

2. Email address. *This question is required.

3. Please list the WIC agency that you are employed by. *This question is required.

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How can WIC services be improved or expanded to meet the Conference goals of ending hunger in the United States and reducing chronic diet-related conditions (e.g., obesity, diabetes, hypertension)?

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What steps are needed to improve infant nutrition in the United States?

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How can WIC work more effectively with Federal programmatic partners (e.g., Medicaid, SNAP) to meet the Conference goals?

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How can WIC work more effectively State, local, territory, or Tribal governments to meet the Conference goals?

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How can WIC work more effectively with private-sector partners (e.g., companies, nonprofit and community groups) to meet the Conference goals?

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What are innovative, successful activities happening at the local, State, territory, or Tribal level that could inform actions at the Federal level?

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How has hunger impacted the community that you serve?

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How has diet-related disease (e.g., obesity, diabetes, hypertension) impacted the community that you serve?

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Please share any additional thoughts, suggestions, or perspective that would be useful as NWA prepares for the Conference.