Name
J02 - Addressing Food Insecurity in Primary Care: Ideas from Professionals Working Across Multiple Sectors
Date & Time
Saturday, October 10, 2026, 11:15 AM - 11:45 AM
Location Name
Grand B (4th Floor)
Description

While food insecurity is highly prevalent in households with children, few interventions have been developed that reduce food insecurity. Integrative solutions that draw on practitioners/clinicians expertise from multiple disciplines and sectors that work with families on a day-to-day basis are needed to inform interventions. This presentation will share results from focus groups that used Human Centered Design principles with multidisciplinary practitioners/clinicians working across health care, education, hunger relief, faith-based, and policy sectors to identify potential integrative intervention approaches to reduce food insecurity with primary care as a base for delivery.

Speakers
Jerica Berge, PhD, MPH, MFT, CFLE
Content Level
All Audience
Tags
Pediatrics, Population and public health, Social determinants of health or SDoH
Session Type
Concurrent
Describe the importance of addressing food insecurity in primary care
Identify the importance of a multidisciplinary and cross-sector approach for mitigating food insecurity
Share results from focus groups composed of multidisciplinary and cross-sector practitioners/clinicians identifying integrative solutions for food insecurity

Agarwal, S., Fertig, A.R., Trofholz, A.C., Tate, A., Robinson, J., Berge, J.M. (2022). Exploring the associations between neighbourhood food environment, household food insecurity and child weight-related outcomes in socio-economically and racially/ethnically diverse families. Public Health Nutrition, 25(12) 3538-3547. doi:10.1017/S13688980022002130

Berge, J.M., Fertig, A.R., Trofholz, A.C., Neumark-Sztainer, D., Rogers, E., Loth K.A.. (2020). Associations between parental stress, parent feeding practices, and child eating behaviors within the context of food insecurity. Preventive Medicine Reports, 19. doi:10.1016.j.pmedr.2020.101146

Zhong, D.R., Gunnar, M.R., Kelly, A.S., French, S., Sherwood, N.E., Berge, J.M., Kunin-Batson, A. (2022). Household food insecurity and obesity risk in preschool-aged children: A three-year prospective study. Social Science and Medicine, 307. doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2022.115176

Hazzard, V.M., Loth K.A., Fertig, A.R., Trofholz, A.C., de Brito, J.N., Doering A., Berge, J.M. (2023). Household food insecurity is associated with greater prevalence and 18-month incidence of a range of disordered eating behaviors in a racially and ethnically diverse sample of parents. Eating Behaviors, 49. doi:10.1016/j.eatbeh.2023.101728.

Hazzard, V., Loth, K.A., Trofholz, A.C., Berge, JM. (2023). The association between household food insecurity and disordered eating behaviors by participation in federal nutrition programs. Frontiers in Public Health, ePub ahead of print.