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Nutrition and Physical Fitness Bureau

  • Improves access to healthy, affordable food through federally and locally funded programs that provide benefits, financial incentives, and direct distribution of healthy food.
  • Implements evidence-based interventions related to nutrition education, physical activity promotion and obesity prevention grounded in cultural understanding.
  • Integrates nutrition into healthcare and strengthens referral pathways between nutrition services, healthcare and community-based organizations to help prevent and manage diet-related diseases.
  • Improves food environments across retail stores, farmers markets, workplaces, hospitals, schools and early childhood education.
  • Engages partners to guide statewide healthy eating, active living and healthy weight efforts.
  • Increases services and resources to support families who are breastfeeding.
  • Supports policies and practices in health care, workplace and childcare settings that promote breastfeeding.

 

Related Services: 
Service Contact: 
Nutrition and Physical Fitness Bureau
Contact Phone: 
(202) 442-9397
Contact Fax: 
(202) 535-1710
Contact TTY: 
711
Contact Suite #: 
3rd Floor
Office Hours: 
Monday to Friday 8 am to 5 pm
Service Location: 

Health, Department of

GIS Address: 
2201 Shannon Place SE
City: 
Washington
State: 
DC
Zip: 
20020