FREE WEBINAR
Nutrition at NIH: New National Initiatives and the Growing Role of Teaching Kitchens

August 18, 2026

Join Andrew Bremer, MD, PhD, MAS, Director of the NIH Office of Nutrition Research (ONR), and colleagues for an inside look at how NIH is advancing nutrition research, education, and implementation across the agency. Learn about ONR’s current priorities, including the NIH Nutrition Education Prize Challenge and NIH’s highlighted research topic on Food Is Medicine, which encourages innovative, multidisciplinary research to address diet-related chronic diseases and health disparities. The team will also share the evolution of NIH’s teaching kitchen program and discuss how hands-on culinary education is advancing research, patient care, and workforce education across the NIH community. Whether you work in healthcare, research, education, or public health, this webinar offers a unique opportunity to learn how one of the nation’s leading research agencies is helping shape the future of nutrition science and practice.

Speakers:

Andrew Bremer, MD, PhD, MAS, Director of the NIH Office of Nutrition Research (ONR), and colleagues

Continuing education credit (CME/CPEU) is not available for this session.

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