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In-House Research for Nutrition and Health

This program conducts in-house research on Human Nutrition to better understand the role of food, its components, and appropriate diet choices, with the goal of optimizing health throughout the human life cycle. Information is then disseminated to the public and private sectors.

Rating

What This Rating Means

PERFORMING
Moderately Effective

In general, a program rated Moderately Effective has set ambitious goals and is well-managed. Moderately Effective programs likely need to improve their efficiency or address other problems in the programs' design or management in order to achieve better results.
  • The program has a clear statement of purpose. It also responds to an important need, to improve human nutrition, and responds to the problem of rising levels of obesity.
  • Long term meaures show the use of program findings by stakeholders/customers in determining Federal nutrition policy and establishing dietary guildelines, food assistance and feeding programs as well as in food labeling.
  • The program did not have an ambitious target for improving the project quality in future years. The program reports data on project quality based on reviews by independent external peer panels. Future targets only show an annual imrprovement goal of 0.5%, which does not appear to be ambitious.

Improvement Plan

About Improvement Plans

We are taking the following actions to improve the performance of the program:

  • Re-evaluating the criteria that it uses to determine outyear targets for project quality, for the purpose of establishing more ambitious targets.
  • Conducting an independent external peer review during FY 2007.
  • Continuing to monitor the actual use of research outputs (new knowledge and technologies).

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