WELCOME TO NEMS

The food, or nutrition environment, is widely believed to contribute to the increasing epidemic of childhood and adult obesity in the United States.

Nutrition environments are the places in a community where people buy or eat food. In order to identify and describe community nutrition environments, there is a need for well-defined and reliable tools to measure these environments, and for trained observers who can use the measures in their communities.

With the support of our funders, we have developed a training program on the Nutrition Environment Measures Survey for Stores (NEMS-S) and Restaurants (NEMS-R) for researchers and community advocates and leaders so they can use the tools for research and action in their own communities.

On this web site, you can learn more about the NEMS measures and options for training.

Funding

NEMS is funded with support from the National Institutes of Health, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the Center for Health Behavior Research at the University of Pennsylvania.