Fleischhacker Sheila E, Ballard Rachel M, Starke-Reed Pamela E, Galuska Deborah A, Neuhouser Marian L
USDA Office of the Chief Scientist [on detail from the NIH], Washington, DC;
NIH Office of Disease Prevention, Bethesda, MD.
J Nutr. 2017 Oct;147(10):1833-1838. doi: 10.3945/jn.117.255943. Epub 2017 Aug 16.
The Interagency Committee on Human Nutrition Research (ICHNR) is charged with improving the planning, coordination, and communication among federal agencies engaged in nutrition research and with facilitating the development and updating of plans for federal research programs to meet current and future domestic and international needs for nutrition. The ICHNR is co-chaired by the USDA Under Secretary for Research, Education, and Economics and Chief Scientist and the US Department of Health and Human Services Assistant Secretary for Health and is made up of >10 departments and agencies. Once the ICHNR was reassembled after a 10-y hiatus, the ICHNR recognized a need for a written roadmap to identify critical human nutrition research gaps and opportunities. This commentary provides an overview of the process the ICHNR undertook to develop a first-of-its-kind National Nutrition Research Roadmap, which was publicly released on 4 March 2016. The primary audience for the Roadmap is federal science agency leaders, along with relevant program and policy staff who rely on federally supported human nutrition research, in addition to the broader scientific community. The Roadmap is framed around the following 3 questions: ) How can we better understand and define eating patterns to improve and sustain health? ) What can be done to help people choose healthy eating patterns? ) How can we develop and engage innovative methods and systems to accelerate discoveries in human nutrition? Within these 3 questions, 11 topical areas were identified on the basis of the following criteria: population impact, feasibility given current technological capacities, and emerging scientific opportunities. This commentary highlights initial federal and some professional research society efforts to address the Roadmap's research and resource priorities. We conclude by noting examples of early collaborations and partnerships to move human nutrition research forward in the 21st century.
跨部门人类营养研究委员会（ICHNR）的职责是改善从事营养研究的联邦机构之间的规划、协调与沟通，并促进联邦研究计划的制定与更新，以满足当前及未来国内外的营养需求。ICHNR由美国农业部负责研究、教育与经济的副部长兼首席科学家以及美国卫生与公众服务部负责卫生事务的助理部长共同担任主席，成员包括10多个部门和机构。在中断10年后重新组建后，ICHNR认识到需要一份书面路线图，以确定关键的人类营养研究差距和机遇。本评论概述了ICHNR为制定首份《国家营养研究路线图》所采取的过程，该路线图于2016年3月4日公开发布。路线图的主要受众是联邦科学机构领导人以及依赖联邦资助的人类营养研究的相关项目和政策工作人员，此外还包括更广泛的科学界。路线图围绕以下三个问题构建：1. 我们如何更好地理解和定义饮食模式以改善和维持健康？2. 可以采取哪些措施帮助人们选择健康的饮食模式？3. 我们如何开发和采用创新方法及系统来加速人类营养领域的发现？在这三个问题范围内，根据以下标准确定了11个主题领域：对人群的影响、鉴于当前技术能力的可行性以及新出现的科学机遇。本评论重点介绍了联邦政府和一些专业研究协会为解决路线图中的研究和资源优先事项所做的初步努力。我们通过列举21世纪推动人类营养研究向前发展的早期合作与伙伴关系的例子来结束本文。
