Project Number: 6251-53000-004-38
Project Type: Specific Cooperative Agreement

Start Date: Sep 01, 2004
End Date: Aug 31, 2009

Objective:
The objective of this cooperative research project is to evaluate the nutritional health in the Lower Mississippi Delta, to identify nutritionally responsive problems, and to design and evaluate interventions that may be sustained at the community level and implemented on a larger scale in similar areas of the United States.

Approach:
Developing capacity as necessary, the Lower Mississippi Delta Nutrition Intervention Research Initiative (Delta NIRI) Consortium will identify environmental and community characteristics related to nutritional status; measure dietary intake; assess nutritional risk factors; design, conduct, and evaluate interventions in the Lower Mississippi Delta. Pennington Biomedical Research Center specifically will support community-based participatory research activities in Franklin Parish, LA, and other sites as mutually agreed upon. In addition, PBRC will maintain a Delta Nutrition Assessment Center to support the Delta NIRI, which will utilize the nutrient intake analysis capabilities already in place at Pennington and will provide services in coding and analysis of food intake records.