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2nd Annual Food is Medicine National Summit (April 24-25, 2024)

2nd Annual Food is Medicine National Summit (April 24-25, 2024)

Apr 12, 2024

The 2-day summit will bring 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.

Food is Medicine Advocacy Day

Food is Medicine Advocacy Day

Apr 10, 2024

Nearly 90 participants from at least 18 states met with Congressional offices to educate about the power of food is medicine to transform health.

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

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

Mar 18, 2024

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.

The STATUS List 2024

The STATUS List 2024

Feb 27, 2024

The 2024 STATUS List features 50 influential people shaping the future of health and life sciences across biotech, medicine, health care, policy, and health tech.

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

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

Feb 27, 2024

To build on the momentum of the Conference and cultivate action, in March 2023, the Administration launched the White House Challenge to End Hunger and Build Healthy Communities to garner additional external commitments. This event is the culmination of the Challenge where the new commitments will be announced. Commitment-makers include private companies, philanthropy, academic institutions, non-profit organizations, and local government.

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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.

The STATUS List 2024

The 2024 STATUS List features 50 influential people shaping the future of health and life sciences across biotech, medicine, health care, policy, and health tech.

White House Includes Two Tufts-Related Initiatives in Commitments to End Hunger, Reduce Diet-Related Disease

White House Includes Two Tufts-Related Initiatives in Commitments to End Hunger, Reduce Diet-Related Disease.

Cost of Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance is Flattening Worker Wages, Contributing to Income Inequality

A new study from the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy shows that insurance premiums are holding back wage growth, especially for people of color.
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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

The American Diabetes Association Announces 2024 Pathway to Stop Diabetes Grant Recipients

American Diabetes Association announced the awardees of the Pathway to Stop Diabetes (Pathway) grants. This year’s grants dedicate more than $4.8 million dollars to support breakthroughs in translation and clinical science, technology, care, and potential cures in the field of diabetes.

Validation Institute Announces First Group of Speakers for Food as Medicine Strategy Summit, May 29-31, 2024, in Washington, D.C.

 As part of its FoodMed Certified initiative, Validation Institute (VI) announced the first group of confirmed speakers for its inaugural Food as Medicine Strategy Summit. 

McGovern, Malliotakis, Pingree, Evans and Fitzpatrick Introduce Legislation to Create a Medically Tailored Meals Demonstration Program in Medicare

A new bipartisan legislation in the U.S. House of Representatives to establish a nationwide pilot program through Medicare to provide seniors with diet-impacted diseases medically tailored meals in the comfort of their own home, building a more resilient and cost-effective health care system.

Leading Health Organizations and Chain Pharmacies Join Together in Public Education Campaign to Reduce Preventable, Diet-Related Diseases

The National Association of Chain Drug Stores, the American Cancer Society, the American Diabetes Association, the American Heart Association, and the Food is Medicine Institute at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University Launch “Nourish My Health” to Improve Nation’s Health

New Report Shows Food is Medicine Interventions Would Save U.S. Lives and Billions of Dollars

The report quantifies the potential health and economic benefits of Food is Medicine efforts.
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2nd Annual Food is Medicine National Summit (April 24-25, 2024)

2nd Annual Food is Medicine National Summit (April 24-25, 2024)

Apr 12, 2024

The 2-day summit will bring 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.