Food is Medicine Initiative
Over half of American adults suffer from at least one chronic, diet-related disease. Though food is the culprit, it can also be the cure: food and nutrition interventions can aid in prevention and management, and even reverse chronic disease. Introduced at large scale, proven interventions can save thousands of lives and billions in healthcare costs each year.
Food is Medicine Community Action Plan
Food & Society at the Aspen Institute launched its Food is Medicine Community Action Plan to support community-based organizations (CBOs) in scaling food-based health interventions. Developed in partnership with organizations across the United States who joined Food & Society at convenings hosted in Tulsa, Tucson, and Boston, and partners who shared case studies with critical on-the-ground experience, the Action Plan recognizes the central role local organizations play in addressing both health outcomes and food security through innovative nutrition programs.
Food is Medicine Research Action Plan
Food & Society at the Aspen Institute has released its 2024 Food is Medicine Research Action Plan. This report builds on the 2022 version, outlining a roadmap for equity-centered research that can revolutionize how diet-related conditions are prevented, treated, and managed in the United States. It is the first report to pull together the latest peer-reviewed Food is Medicine research in a digestible, comprehensible, and action-oriented format.
Food is Medicine Convenings
Food & Society, in partnership with the Ardmore Institute of Health, hosted strategic convenings across the country to address critical aspects of Food is Medicine implementation. The learnings from these conversations helped to lay the foundation of our forthcoming Community Action Plan.
Announcing Our New Partnership with HHS
When the US Department of Health and Human Services started building [...]
Food & Society at the Aspen Institute Releases the 2024 Food is Medicine Research Action Plan
The report synthesizes the latest peer-reviewed Food is Medicine research [...]
Food is Medicine California Style
In the shadow of California's State Capitol, over two dozen [...]
our advisors
Ann Albright
Advisor, Food is Medicine
former Director of Division of Diabetes Translation, Centers for Disease Control & Prevention
Karen Bachman-Carter
Advisor, Food is Medicine
former Public Health Nutritionist and Diabetes Educator, Indian Health Service
Seth A. Berkowitz
Advisor, Food is Medicine
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of General Medicine and Clinical Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Joslyn Brenton
Advisor, Food is Medicine
Associate Professor of Sociology, Ithaca College
Bridget Carle
Advisor, Food is Medicine
Senior Vice President, Public Sector Practice, Guy Carpenter
Juliana Crawford
Advisor, Food is Medicine
National Executive Vice President, Consumer Health Solutions, American Heart Association
Cathryn Couch
Advisor, Food is Medicine
Founder and CEO, Ceres Community Project
Mitchell Elkind
Advisor, Food is Medicine
Chief Clinical Science Officer, American Heart Association
Kofi Essel
Advisor, Food is Medicine
Director, Food as Medicine, Elevance Health
Katie Garfield
Advisor, Food is Medicine
Director of Whole Person Care and Clinical Instructor, Health Law and Policy Clinic, Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation, Harvard Law School
Tiffany Gary-Webb
Advisor, Food is Medicine
Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology, and Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health
Kurt Hager
Author and Advisor, Food is Medicine
UMass Chan Medical School
Sheila Hanley
Advisor, Food is Medicine
Senior Advisor, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Innovation Center
Devon Klatell
Advisor, Food is Medicine
Vice President, Food Initiative, The Rockefeller Foundation
Zhongyu Li
Co-Author and Advisor, Food is Medicine
PhD Candidate, Nutrition Health Services, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University
Jen Muse
Advisor, Food is Medicine
Associate Science and Medicine Advisor, American Heart Association
Vanessa Nicholson-Robinson
Assistant Professor, Tufts University School of Medicine
Gita Rampersad
Advisor, Food is Medicine
former Vice President, Equity and Programs, Feeding America
Pamela Schwartz
Advisor, Food is Medicine
Executive Director of Community Health, Kaiser Permanente
Hilary Seligman
Advisor, Food is Medicine
Professor of Medicine and of Epidemiology, University of California, San Francisco
Lauren Shweder Biel
Advisor, Food is Medicine
former Executive Director and Co-Founder, DC Greens
Karen Siegel
Advisor, Food is Medicine
Epidemiologist, Senior Service Fellow, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Emma Steinberg
Advisor, Food is Medicine
Chef and Pediatric Hospitalist, Newton Wellesley Hospital
Andrea Talhami
Advisor, Food is Medicine
Programs Director, DC Greens
Jean Terranova
Advisor, Food is Medicine
Director of Food and Health Policy, Community Servings
Alissa Wassung
Advisor, Food is Medicine
Executive Director, Food Is Medicine Coalition
Marianna Wetherill
Advisor, Food is Medicine Initiative
George Kaiser Family Foundation Chair in Population Healthcare; Assistant Professor of Health Promotion Sciences and Family and Community Medicine
Norbert Wilson
Advisor, Food is Medicine
Director of Food and Agriculture Policy, Duke Divinity School and Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke
Allison Yoder
Advisor, Food is Medicine
Nutrition in Food Retail Program Development Fellow, Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics Foundation
