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Food Insecurity: early-phase trial registry
17 of 38 indexed Food Insecurity trials are currently recruiting, with more weight in Phase 1-2.
Corpus placement: #393 of 28,707 conditions by registered trial count.
38 US clinical trials · 17 currently recruiting · #393 of 28,707 conditions by registered trial count
Food Insecurity: 38 US clinical trials tracked, 17 recruiting.
Food Insecurity is the subject of 38 registered US clinical trials on ClinicalTrials.gov, 17 of them currently open to new participants. 0 are in Phase 3-4 (later-stage) and 1 in Phase 1-2 (earlier-stage). The most active sponsor is University of California, San Francisco, running 4 of these trials.
Enrollment posture brief
Registry condition food-insecurity
OPEN 17 | RECR 45% | LATE 0 | EARLY 1 | RANK #393 | SPON 4
Volume-matched condition peers
Nearest open-share peer: Ischemic Stroke (45% recruiting · 67 trials)
Food Insecurity lists 17 open slots (45% of 38 indexed trials). Peers are matched on registered volume, not therapeutic-area browse lists. How peer matching works →
Key findings
What ClinicalTrials.gov does not surface for Food Insecurity on its own pages , computed from the registry mirror as of 2026-08-08. Each line carries its own denominator so it can be quoted as it stands.
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Food Insecurity is recruiting above its size-band peers.
17 of 38 indexed trials (44.7%) are open to enrollment, against a 39.7% average across 762 conditions with 20-99 trials. The peer set uses the same ClinicalTrials.gov-derived counts as this page.
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Sponsorship of Food Insecurity trials is spread across many organizations.
University of California, San Francisco accounts for 4 of 38 trials (10.5%). 28 distinct sponsors appear on at least one study for this condition label.
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Typical Food Insecurity enrolment sits around 200 participants.
Median target enrolment is 200 among the 38 trials that report a genuine target (sentinel values excluded). 7 of those (18.4%) plan for fewer than 100 participants.
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Food Insecurity research is mostly interventional.
32 interventional and 6 observational studies make up this index (84.2% interventional). Study type is sponsor-reported on ClinicalTrials.gov.
Open and recent trials
38 total, page 1 of 1
Food-based Support for Hospitalized Children and Their Families
Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati
NCT06946355
Behavioral Economics to Implement a Traffic Light Nutrition Ranking System: Study 2
Massachusetts General Hospital
NCT06298253
Implementing Food Referrals for Equity and Sustained Health
University of California, San Diego
NCT06661538
Fresh Takes!: An Evaluation of the Impact of Receiving Fresh Food Boxes
Montefiore Medical Center
NCT06019624
Nutrition to Optimize, Understand, and Restore Insulin Sensitivity in HIV for Oklahoma
University of Oklahoma
NCT05208671
Nutrition and Obesity in Under-Represented Populations: Food Insecurity Research to Advance Science and Improve Health
Duke University
NCT06116422
Nutrition OUtReach In Systems of Healthcare
University of Kansas Medical Center
NCT06802406
Delivering Food Resources & Kitchen Skills (FoRKS) to Adults With Food Insecurity and Hypertension
Indiana University
NCT05856591
Neonatal Neurodevelopmental Outcomes
Baylor College of Medicine
NCT07101757
Food Insecurity Reduction & Strategy Team
Stanford University
NCT06329375
Pediatric Metabolic Dysfunction-associated Steatotic Liver Disease and Food Insecurity
University of California, San Francisco
NCT07090083
Nourishing Beginnings: Addressing Food Insecurity During Pregnancy
Case Western Reserve University
NCT05341960
Addressing Food Insecurity: Plant-Based Food Prescription Program
University of Miami
NCT06614920
Improving Food Access in East Flatbush Through a Community Partner Coalition in New York City (NYC)
NYU Langone Health
NCT07078253
Feasibility of an ADAPTive Intervention to Improve Food Security and Maternal-Child Health
Wake Forest University Health Sciences
NCT06942598
The Food for Health Study
University of Montana
NCT07254689
Nurturing Outreach for Understanding and Reducing Inpatient Security of Health
Wake Forest University Health Sciences
NCT07010289
Evaluating Covered California's Grocery Support Program
University of California, San Francisco
NCT07215897
Southern California Nutrition Incentive Program
University of California, San Diego
NCT02976389
Eat Well Produce Benefit for Diabetes and Food Insecurity
Duke University
NCT05896644
Neurodevelopmental Outcomes in Children: Strengthening the Caregiver-Child Story
Baylor College of Medicine
NCT05809115
Developing a Nutrition Support Assessment Tool
Thomas Jefferson University
NCT06450860
Penn Produce Prescription and Chronic Kidney Disease Study
University of Pennsylvania
NCT06561412
CHW Intervention to Improve Nutrition Security of Patients With Hypertension
Massachusetts General Hospital
NCT06358417
TARGETing Healthy Weight Loss in the Context of Food Insecurity
Pennington Biomedical Research Center
NCT05601804
SNAP Fruit and Vegetable Incentive Program Digital Promotions for Farmers' Markets
Tufts University
NCT04458350
Communication and Marketing of School Meals
Stanford University
NCT05109351
CommunityRx-Hunger
University of Chicago
NCT04171999
Indigenous Supported Agriculture "Go Healthy"
Oklahoma State University Center for Health Sciences
NCT05773833
Coping Strategies Used by Food Insecure Households
RTI International
NCT02767141
Changing Health Through Food Support for Diabetes
University of California, San Francisco
NCT04959487
Comparison of Produce Prescription Benefit Dosage
University of California, San Francisco
NCT05978843
Food Environment, Food Insecurity, and Health Behaviors in NH Hispanics
University of New Hampshire
NCT05424367
Effects of an Urban-gardening Nutrition Intervention for Food Insecure College Students
Florida International University
NCT06822803
FoodRx for Obesity Treatment
University of Pennsylvania
NCT05635019
Delivering Health: Addressing Diabetes and Food Insecurity
University of Arkansas
NCT04831216
Food as Medicine: Evaluating the Impact of Home-delivered Vegetables and Whole Grains on Diet of Food-insecure Families
UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital Oakland
NCT04639687
Pediatric Parental Feeding Video Education Program
Rhode Island Hospital
NCT06447766
Phase Distribution
| Phase | Trial count |
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| Phase 2 | 1 |
Top Sponsors
Named interventions
Most-linked intervention names on Food Insecurity records (sponsor-reported on ClinicalTrials.gov). Counts are trial links, not unique products.
US sites by state
Facility locations filed on Food Insecurity trials. A trial with sites in several states counts in each.
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov, National Library of Medicine. Data is informational only.
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What to do with this Food Insecurity page
38 registered trials, 17 currently recruiting, is a starting point for a conversation, not a diagnosis or a recommendation.
- 17 Food Insecurity trials are currently recruiting, check eligibility criteria before contacting a site. Browse recruiting trials
- University of California, San Francisco sponsors the most Food Insecurity trials on record, review their full trial history before evaluating a specific study. See University of California, San Francisco's trials
- Bring the specific trial ID (NCT number) to your own doctor before enrolling, this page is a directory, not medical guidance. Read the trial-finding guide
Trial and recruiting counts reflect ClinicalTrials.gov registry status as of the data vintage above; individual trial eligibility and enrollment status can change.
Every figure on PlainTrial is rendered directly from the ClinicalTrials.gov registry, no number is typed in by an editor. This Food Insecurity condition card totals 38 registered trials; most-linked intervention Participating to Boost Meal Participation; top US site state California. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, the data changelog, or report a data error.