The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of Nutrition Research (ONR) announces the “Integration of Nutrition Training into Health Care Education” Challenge. ONR’s mission is to stimulate innovative research to address the complexities of nutrition, its ecology, and its critical role in health across the lifespan for all. The goal of this challenge is to identify, evaluate, and promote effective, scalable, and evidence-based approaches to integrating nutrition training into medical and nursing education, including both established programs and emerging models with strong potential for dissemination. The total prize purse from NIH for this Challenge is up to $2,100,000.
This Challenge is open to participants in two distinct tracks. The Exemplar Track is open to eligible institutions who are leading existing, exemplary programs that integrate nutrition education into medical education in alignment with the HHS Medical Education Nutrition Competency Framework . The Developing Track is open to eligible institutions that have identified needs within the institution to expand nutrition education and have plans to build and strengthen their curricula in alignment with the HHS Medical Education Nutrition Competency Framework .
Participants in the Challenge must have already designed and implemented evidence-based curricula that are capable of being scaled at a national level (Exemplar Track) or must present plans to implement nutrition curricula (Developing Track). These may take any form, including but not restricted to courses, workshops, seminar series, coaching, and experiential learning through the use of teaching kitchens. The Challenge will raise collective knowledge of evidence-based best practices for integrating nutrition training into medical and nursing education – including key educational content, effective teaching approaches, and the breadth of audiences that can be engaged in nutrition science education and training. It will also raise awareness of the value of nutrition science education and training to advance the medical enterprise.
Only one entry per institution is permitted, either as an individual entry or as a partnership entry with other institution(s).
Deadline: Sep. 15, 2026
Eligibility to enter this Challenge is limited to the following: (1) fully accredited, U.S.-based, non-profit, public or private academic institutions granting undergraduate medical education (UME) degrees in allopathic medicine (M.D., as accredited by the Liaison Committee on Medical Education), or osteopathic medicine (D.O., as accredited by the Commission on Osteopathic College Accreditation); (2) fully accredited, U.S.-based, non-profit, public or private academic institutions providing graduate medical residency training programs (as accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education); or (3) fully accredited, U.S.-based, non-profit, public or private academic institutions granting nursing degrees (as accredited by nationally recognized accrediting bodies, including the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education and the Accreditation Commission for Education in Nursing).
Sponsor Institute/Organizations: National Institutes of Health
Sponsor Type: Government/Federal
Address: National Institutes of Health; 31 Center Drive; MSC 2220; Bethesda; MD 20892-2220; USA
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Affiliation: National Institutes of Health
Address: National Institutes of Health; 31 Center Drive; MSC 2220; Bethesda; MD 20892-2220; USA
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