NourishED Research Foundation

The NourishED Research Foundation (NRFi) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that uses research to change the conversation around eating disorders. NourishED was founded in 2024 after recognizing a deficiency and need in federal funding allocated to binge eating disorder research while also recognizing the ways that deficiency results in significant barriers to care. Thus, NourishED aims to improve key gaps in eating disorder clinical research and care, focussing on four targeted areas: (1) indivdiuals who experience eating disorders; (2) providers who might help support them; (3) research that informs our understanding of eating disorders; and (4) environments eating disorders occur in. See our mission statement above for a brief description of our strategic activites in each of these areas. Overall, we believe knowledge is nourishing and we prioritize research activities, findings, tools and skills (including research literacy) in each arm of our organization, leveraging research findings to empower breakthroughs in eating disorder awareness, understanding, prevention, treatment access, and clinical and lived experiences, advocating for health self-efficacy and enabling indvidiuals to hold their own health and wellness in the care of their own hands. Join us! https://nourishedrfi.org To impact meaningful change in lived experiences, NourishED prioritizes inclusive research on eating disorder interventions that are: (1) free or low-cost; (2) accessible (virtual or community-based); (3) socio-culturally sensitive, inclusive, and responsive to the unique experiences of indivdiuals with binge-type eating disorders and their complex sequela of adversity and health disparity(see Bray et al., 2021, 2022(a,b), 2023, 2024, 2025a,b,c).