2020-2030 Strategic Plan for NIH Nutrition Research

The first NIH-wide strategic plan for nutrition research emphasizes cross-cutting, innovative opportunities to advance nutrition research across a wide range of areas, from basic science to experimental design to research training. The plan is organized around a unifying vision of precision nutrition research and includes four strategic goals and five cross-cutting research areas. These opportunities complement and enhance ongoing research efforts across NIH to improve health and to prevent or combat diseases and conditions affected by nutrition.

Released in May 2020, the 2020–2030 Strategic Plan for NIH Nutrition Research (SPNNR) was developed with extensive input from the broader external research community and the public. The plan lays out four overarching strategic goals designed to further our understanding of how nutrition influences health and disease across the lifespan. In conjunction with this effort, NIH staff published a commentary on Implementation Science and Nutrition Research.

In September 2025, ONR published the Implementation Update Report that serves as a review and progress check on the work that was supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in fiscal years 2020, 2021, and 2022 (FY20–22) toward achieving these goals.