The Administration has announced that the 2022 Conference on Hunger, Nutrition and Health will take place on September 28th.  This is the first conference on the comprehensive role of hunger and its interaction with health since 1969.  Topics to be considered by participants include:

• Improving food access and affordability with special reference to food assistance programs and logistics.

• Integrating nutrition and health including disease prevention and management obviously with reference to intake of calories, salt and sugar and their deleterious effects including obesity, hypertension, diabetes and other metabolic conditions.

• Empowering all consumers to have access to healthy food choices and increasing access to healthy food.

• Public messaging and education directed to specific demographics will be required for urban, rural, and Tribal communities.

• Encourage physical activity through a campaign to increase awareness of the benefits of physical activity and facilitating exercise in safe locations

• Enhancing research on nutrition and food security including methods to improve data collection and research on nutrition and health and to enhance food security

The White House is promoting community-based organizations, health care professionals, trade universities, academia and Tribal governments to organize concurrent events relating to hunger and nutrition.