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Field Test Advances Food Policy and Nutrition Research

June 11, 2025

To inform policies that improve food access and health outcomes, Westat conducted the 2022 field test of the second National Household Food Acquisition and Purchase…

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Victoria Lazariu

Principal Statistical Associate

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Rebecca Birch

Principal Research Associate

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)

How can we improve the reliability of employee compensation official statistics?

Developing the employee compensation data integration methodology

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Brandon Hesgrove

Principal Research Associate

National Cancer Institute (NCI) | National Institutes of Health (NIH)

What can improve physician and patient access to NCI-sponsored clinical trials?

Helping NCI’s Cancer Trials Support Unit

National Center for Health Statistics

What are the national patterns of health care delivery in hospital-based settings?

Conducting the National Hospital Care Survey (NHCS)

U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)

What's the best way to collect data on food a household acquires?

Implementing the FoodAPS-2 study

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) | U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)

What drug or drug combinations send people to the emergency department?

Administering DAWN to improve emergency department monitoring of substance abuse-related visits

National Institute of Mental Health | National Institutes of Health (NIH)

What treatments help young people in the early stages of psychosis?

Creating and coordinating the Early Psychosis Intervention Network (EPINET) National Data Coordinating Center (ENDCC) to accelerate science and improve treatment