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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

Nearest open-share peer: Ischemic Stroke (45% recruiting · 67 trials)

Acute Leukemia55.3%Eating Disorders47.4%Food Insecurity (this)45%Back Pain31.6%Metastatic Pancreatic Adenoc28.9%
Open-enrollment share among volume-matched conditions near Food Insecurity

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.

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

Phase 21

Open and recent trials

38 total, page 1 of 1

RECRUITING NA 9,119 participants

Food-based Support for Hospitalized Children and Their Families

Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati

NCT06946355

RECRUITING NA 3,750 participants

Behavioral Economics to Implement a Traffic Light Nutrition Ranking System: Study 2

Massachusetts General Hospital

NCT06298253

RECRUITING Phase 2 600 participants

Implementing Food Referrals for Equity and Sustained Health

University of California, San Diego

NCT06661538

RECRUITING NA 400 participants

Fresh Takes!: An Evaluation of the Impact of Receiving Fresh Food Boxes

Montefiore Medical Center

NCT06019624

RECRUITING NA 234 participants

Nutrition to Optimize, Understand, and Restore Insulin Sensitivity in HIV for Oklahoma

University of Oklahoma

NCT05208671

RECRUITING NA 228 participants

Nutrition and Obesity in Under-Represented Populations: Food Insecurity Research to Advance Science and Improve Health

Duke University

NCT06116422

RECRUITING NA 210 participants

Nutrition OUtReach In Systems of Healthcare

University of Kansas Medical Center

NCT06802406

RECRUITING NA 200 participants

Delivering Food Resources & Kitchen Skills (FoRKS) to Adults With Food Insecurity and Hypertension

Indiana University

NCT05856591

RECRUITING 200 participants

Neonatal Neurodevelopmental Outcomes

Baylor College of Medicine

NCT07101757

RECRUITING NA 160 participants

Food Insecurity Reduction & Strategy Team

Stanford University

NCT06329375

RECRUITING 160 participants

Pediatric Metabolic Dysfunction-associated Steatotic Liver Disease and Food Insecurity

University of California, San Francisco

NCT07090083

RECRUITING NA 124 participants

Nourishing Beginnings: Addressing Food Insecurity During Pregnancy

Case Western Reserve University

NCT05341960

RECRUITING NA 100 participants

Addressing Food Insecurity: Plant-Based Food Prescription Program

University of Miami

NCT06614920

RECRUITING NA 100 participants

Improving Food Access in East Flatbush Through a Community Partner Coalition in New York City (NYC)

NYU Langone Health

NCT07078253

RECRUITING NA 60 participants

Feasibility of an ADAPTive Intervention to Improve Food Security and Maternal-Child Health

Wake Forest University Health Sciences

NCT06942598

RECRUITING NA 43 participants

The Food for Health Study

University of Montana

NCT07254689

RECRUITING NA 30 participants

Nurturing Outreach for Understanding and Reducing Inpatient Security of Health

Wake Forest University Health Sciences

NCT07010289

ACTIVE NOT RECRUITING NA 6,975 participants

Evaluating Covered California's Grocery Support Program

University of California, San Francisco

NCT07215897

ACTIVE NOT RECRUITING NA 3,780 participants

Southern California Nutrition Incentive Program

University of California, San Diego

NCT02976389

ACTIVE NOT RECRUITING NA 2,177 participants

Eat Well Produce Benefit for Diabetes and Food Insecurity

Duke University

NCT05896644

ACTIVE NOT RECRUITING 2,000 participants

Neurodevelopmental Outcomes in Children: Strengthening the Caregiver-Child Story

Baylor College of Medicine

NCT05809115

ACTIVE NOT RECRUITING NA 200 participants

Developing a Nutrition Support Assessment Tool

Thomas Jefferson University

NCT06450860

ACTIVE NOT RECRUITING NA 100 participants

Penn Produce Prescription and Chronic Kidney Disease Study

University of Pennsylvania

NCT06561412

ACTIVE NOT RECRUITING NA 60 participants

CHW Intervention to Improve Nutrition Security of Patients With Hypertension

Massachusetts General Hospital

NCT06358417

ACTIVE NOT RECRUITING 45 participants

TARGETing Healthy Weight Loss in the Context of Food Insecurity

Pennington Biomedical Research Center

NCT05601804

COMPLETED NA 251,966 participants

SNAP Fruit and Vegetable Incentive Program Digital Promotions for Farmers' Markets

Tufts University

NCT04458350

COMPLETED NA 711 participants

Communication and Marketing of School Meals

Stanford University

NCT05109351

COMPLETED NA 660 participants

CommunityRx-Hunger

University of Chicago

NCT04171999

COMPLETED NA 580 participants

Indigenous Supported Agriculture "Go Healthy"

Oklahoma State University Center for Health Sciences

NCT05773833

COMPLETED 320 participants

Coping Strategies Used by Food Insecure Households

RTI International

NCT02767141

COMPLETED NA 281 participants

Changing Health Through Food Support for Diabetes

University of California, San Francisco

NCT04959487

COMPLETED NA 242 participants

Comparison of Produce Prescription Benefit Dosage

University of California, San Francisco

NCT05978843

COMPLETED 139 participants

Food Environment, Food Insecurity, and Health Behaviors in NH Hispanics

University of New Hampshire

NCT05424367

COMPLETED NA 107 participants

Effects of an Urban-gardening Nutrition Intervention for Food Insecure College Students

Florida International University

NCT06822803

COMPLETED NA 105 participants

FoodRx for Obesity Treatment

University of Pennsylvania

NCT05635019

COMPLETED NA 101 participants

Delivering Health: Addressing Diabetes and Food Insecurity

University of Arkansas

NCT04831216

COMPLETED NA 68 participants

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

COMPLETED NA 26 participants

Pediatric Parental Feeding Video Education Program

Rhode Island Hospital

NCT06447766

Phase Distribution

PhaseTrial count
Phase 2 1

Named interventions

Most-linked intervention names on Food Insecurity records (sponsor-reported on ClinicalTrials.gov). Counts are trial links, not unique products.

Participating to Boost Meal Participation Behavioral
1 trials
Community Rx-Hunger (CRx-H) Other
1 trials
Food as Medicine Delivery Behavioral
1 trials
Gardening Nutrition Education Program Behavioral
1 trials
Monetary benefit to purchase fruits and vegetables Behavioral
1 trials
Type 2 Diabetes Appropriate Food Boxes + Diabetes Education Behavioral
1 trials
"Go Healthy" program Behavioral
1 trials
Feeding Families Your Way Program Behavioral
1 trials

US sites by state

Facility locations filed on Food Insecurity trials. A trial with sites in several states counts in each.

California 10 trials
North Carolina 6 trials
Pennsylvania 3 trials
New York 3 trials
Massachusetts 3 trials
Texas 2 trials
Oklahoma 2 trials
Ohio 2 trials

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov, National Library of Medicine. Data is informational only.

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.

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.