Institute News, Wellness and Nutrition
The Harkin Institute for Public Policy & Citizen Engagement surveyed 500 Iowans in December 2019 to gather feedback on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and determine if Iowans favor or oppose changes to SNAP that may influence the purchase...
Institute News, Wellness and Nutrition
In January, The Harkin Institute signed on to the Healthy Meeting Pledge developed by the National Alliance for Nutrition and Activity (NANA) and the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI). Participating in this pledge is an opportunity for the Institute to...
Institute News, Wellness and Nutrition
The Harkin Institute’s Associate Director of Wellness and Nutrition Policy, Lyndi Buckingham-Schutt, spoke on a panel on October 9, 2019, about leveraging value-based care. The Better Care America event discussed how Iowa’s health care community is...
Institute News, Wellness and Nutrition
At The Harkin Institute, our goal is to facilitate collaborative, high-quality, nonpartisan, multi-disciplinary public policy research and analysis in the area of wellness and nutrition. As part of this goal, we are in the process of creating our third report that...
Institute News, Wellness and Nutrition
Research Project Launches to Analyze App Use and Birth Outcomes Iowa Institutions Come Together for First-Of-Its-Kind Study DES MOINES, Iowa — (July 31, 2019) — Researchers at Des Moines University (DMU) and The Harkin Institute for Public Policy &...
