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Longer. Healthier. Better. Leaders in Longevity: The Food Compass with Dr. Dariush Mozaffarian

Nov 12, 2025

What can we learn from the history of our food system? Dariush Mozaffarian believes if we know how we built it, we know how we can fix it. His work at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy is shaping a new food policy for our country that can help lead to better outcomes in health, sustainability, and the economy.

1st Annual Food and Agriculture Policy Summit

Oct 28, 2025

The inaugural Food and Agriculture Policy Summit features dynamic conversations with thought leaders across the food system on policies that can support a healthier population and planet.

New Tool Screens for Access to Healthy Food

Oct 22, 2025

Developed by experts at the Food is Medicine Institute, the Nutrition Security Screener focuses on whether people can get and eat nutritious foods.

Food Is Medicine: A Movement at a Tipping Point

Oct 15, 2025

Key takeaways from the third annual summit at Tufts, which brought together leaders in nutrition, health care, and policy from across the U.S.

3rd Annual Food is Medicine National Summit [VIDEO + SLIDES]

Oct 9, 2025

The 2-day summit brought together healthcare leaders, clinicians, community and advocacy organizers, investors, entrepreneurs, policy makers, and patients with lived experience to share and highlight advances, best practices, challenges, and next directions in Food is Medicine.

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3rd Annual Food is Medicine National Summit [VIDEO + SLIDES]

Oct 9, 2025

The 2-day summit brought together healthcare leaders, clinicians, community and advocacy organizers, investors, entrepreneurs, policy makers, and patients with lived experience to share and highlight advances, best practices, challenges, and next directions in Food is Medicine.

Capitol Hill Luncheon: Eating Ourselves Sick? Ultra Processed Foods Policy

Oct 8, 2025

Join us on Capitol Hill for an urgent conversation about one of the biggest public health challenges of our time: ultra-processed foods.

Improving Health While Managing Healthcare Spending: Enter Food is Medicine

May 20, 2025

The Food is Medicine Institute’s 2nd Annual Advocacy Day on Capitol Hill (March 12, 2025) is a day to visit with key members of Congress and their staff to encourage and inform the advancement of Food is Medicine priorities in federal policymaking.

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Longer. Healthier. Better. Leaders in Longevity: The Food Compass with Dr. Dariush Mozaffarian

Nov 12, 2025

What can we learn from the history of our food system? Dariush Mozaffarian believes if we know how we built it, we know how we can fix it. His work at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy is shaping a new food policy for our country that can help lead to better outcomes in health, sustainability, and the economy.

1st Annual Food and Agriculture Policy Summit

Oct 28, 2025

The inaugural Food and Agriculture Policy Summit features dynamic conversations with thought leaders across the food system on policies that can support a healthier population and planet.

Media Stories & Op-Ed

Sugar-sweetened Beverage Intake Increasing Globally Among Children and Teens

Study estimates at least 10% of youth worldwide consume more than 7 servings of sugary drinks weekly.

The Surest And Safest Way To Maximize Your Health: Food As Medicine

Bill Frist, physician and cochair of the 2022 Task Force on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health, calls on our healthcare providers, doctors and nurses alike, to more deliberately collaborate with nutrition experts to effectively engage with and educate patients on dietary needs.

Nutrition Expert to U.S. Senators: Enact Food is Medicine Policy Now

Treating food as medicine in policymaking will save hundreds of thousands of lives and billions of dollars, said Friedman School’s Dariush Mozaffarian.

The Food is Medicine Movement Originators are Trying to Standardize Medically Tailored Meals

Food corporations, grocery stores, and even tech companies are claiming they are a part of the growing effort to use food to treat medical conditions. Now, the nonprofits that pioneered the work want to standardize it.

The Surest And Safest Way To Maximize Your Health: Food As Medicine

Bill Frist, physician and cochair of the 2022 Task Force on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health, calls on our healthcare providers, doctors and nurses alike, to more deliberately collaborate with nutrition experts to effectively engage with and educate patients on dietary needs.

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Policy Announcements

White House Challenge to End Hunger and Build Healthy Communities Event with Second Gentleman Emhoff

The Biden-Harris Administration is announcing 141 new bold commitments from stakeholders across the nation, including health systems, insurers, companies, non-profits, philanthropic groups, academia, and local elected officials, who have stepped up as part of the White House Challenge to End Hunger and Build Healthy Communities (the Challenge).

Booker, Blunt Rochester Introduce Bicameral Legislation to Scale Up Successful Nutrition Incentive for Fruits and Veggies Nationwide

The legislation would significantly expand the successful Gus Schumacher Nutrition Incentive Program.

Live: Senate Hearing on Food as Medicine

U.S. Senator Cory Booker (D-N.J.), Chair of the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Food and Nutrition, Specialty Crops, Organics, and Research, led a hearing titled “Food as Medicine: Current Efforts and Potential Opportunities”.

U.S. Government Accountability Office Publishes Government-wide Solutions for Promoting Healthy Diets, Food Safety, and Food Security

Each year, millions of people in the U.S. die from diet-related chronic health conditions, get sick from foodborne illnesses, or go hungry.

Fact Sheet: Biden-⁠Harris Administration Announces Plans for $11 Billion to End Malnutrition at Global Nutrition Summit

At the 2021 Tokyo Nutrition for Growth Summit, U.S. Agency for International Development’s (USAID) Administrator Samantha Power announced on behalf of the White House that the United States intends to invest up to $11 billion over three years, subject to Congressional appropriations, to combat global malnutrition, the underlying cause of almost half of childhood deaths globally.

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Press Releases

Tufts University and Leading Health Care Organizations Launch Food is Medicine National Network of Excellence

The Food is Medicine Institute at the Friedman School and Kaiser Permanente spearhead collective effort to establish best practices for implementing, evaluating, and integrating food-based interventions into health care systems and communities

Governor Newsom issues executive order to crack down on ultra-processed foods and further investigate food dyes

Governor Newsom issued an executive order today directing state agencies to recommend potential actions to limit the harms associated with “ultra-processed foods” and food ingredients that pose a health risk to individuals.

CHLPI Welcomes Technical Assistance Proposals to Support State Food is Medicine Initiatives

Expanded efforts to increase equitable access to state Food is Medicine services

March of Dimes, Alzheimer’s Association Join NACDS Nourish My Health Public Education Campaign

NACDS reflects on achievements and impact of Nourish My Health in its first year; looks ahead to continued momentum in 2025

Dr. Dariush Mozaffarian Receives “Cultivating Innovation in Care Award” at Annual NACDS Foundation Dinner

NACDS Foundation President Sara Roszak presents the NACDS Foundation’s Cultivating Innovation in Care Award to Dr. Dariush Mozaffarian.

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