Food is Medicine Programs

We integrate local agriculture into healthcare settings, promoting nutrition security, chronic disease prevention and community resilience. Our food is medicine work supports healthcare providers and systems in delivering nutrition-based interventions while strengthening regional food systems and workforce pipelines.

Strategies

• Community benefit provision to support food and nutrition security Integration of agriculture and healthcare
• Workforce development for food is medicine

Activities

• Support hospitals and healthcare systems in fulfilling their community benefit obligations by investing in local food initiatives that address the root causes of poor health-especially food insecurity and diet related illness.
• Build partnerships between agriculture and health sectors
• Create evaluation tools and track impact
• Develop workforce for food is medicine delivery and innovation