Front Public Health. 2025 Jul 18;13:1416165. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2025.1416165. eCollection 2025.
The scale and near universality of school closures in response to the COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the vital role schools play in protecting the health and wellbeing of learners. This experience strengthened the resolve of countries to re-establish and increase their investment in the education and wellbeing of children as part of building back from the pandemic, resulting in the creation of a global School Meals Coalition (SMC) to help achieve that ambition by 2030. The Research Consortium for School Health and Nutrition was launched in 2021 to provide independent, evidence-based guidance on effective policymaking on school health and nutrition programming to the (now) 109 member states of the Coalition. Guided by a 10-year independent research strategy, the Research Consortium operates as a global network of academics and scholars and consolidates research findings into policy insights that offer actionable approaches to strengthen the quality, efficiency, and coverage of national programmes. With input from over 1,200 Global Academy members from more than 110 countries, the Research Consortium develops an Annual Research Statement on the policy implications of the emerging research in this area, which is presented to policymakers annually at a global convening of the SMC member states. This paper introduces the Research Consortium's Annual Research Statements for years 2022, 2023, and 2024, which report new programmatic and policy insights as well as accumulating and evolving understanding of the research on school health and nutrition.
为应对新冠疫情而实施的学校关闭措施，其规模之大且几乎涵盖全球，凸显了学校在保护学生健康和福祉方面所发挥的关键作用。这一经历增强了各国的决心，即在从疫情中恢复的过程中，重新建立并增加对儿童教育和福祉的投资，由此催生了全球学校供餐联盟（SMC），以助力在2030年前实现这一目标。学校健康与营养研究联盟于2021年成立，旨在为该联盟（目前）的109个成员国提供关于学校健康和营养规划有效决策的独立、循证指导。在一项为期10年的独立研究战略指引下，该研究联盟作为一个由学者和专家组成的全球网络开展运作，并将研究结果整合为政策见解，提供切实可行的方法，以提高国家项目的质量、效率和覆盖范围。在来自110多个国家的1200多名全球学院成员的参与下，该研究联盟编写了一份关于这一领域新出现研究的政策影响的年度研究报告，并每年在SMC成员国的全球会议上提交给政策制定者。本文介绍了该研究联盟2022年、2023年和2024年的年度研究报告，这些报告阐述了新的项目和政策见解，以及对学校健康和营养研究不断积累和演变的认识。
