Key Points
- Notice of Special Interest (NOSI): Stimulating Research to Understand and Address Hunger, Food and Nutrition Insecurity
- To highlight special topics of interest, (e.g., in a specific research area or program) a Notice of Special Interest is posted in the NIH Guide to Grants and Contracts to alert the community of the potential opportunity for funding.
- The purpose of this Notice of Special Interest is to encourage research on the efficacy of interventions that address nutrition security and the mechanisms of food insecurity on a variety of health outcomes.
- It also calls for the development of new measures for nutrition security and assessment of food insecurity that are broadly applicable.
FIM Opportunities
This Notice of Special Interest (NOSI) was released in 2022. Since its release, the NOSI has led to the funding of a project that is examining the mechanisms by which chronic food insecurity impacts cardiovascular and metabolic health among college students.