Food is Medicine Interventions to Support Food & Nutrition Security: Where do we go from here?
Speaker: Hilary Seligman, MD, MAS, Shreela Sharma, PhD, RD, LD, FAHA, & Deanna Hoelscher, PhD, RDN, LD, CNS, FISBNPA
Length: 1:30:08 minutes
Food is Medicine (FIM) is rapidly gaining momentum as health systems, insurers, and policymakers look to food and nutrition interventions to support chronic disease prevention and management. This talk examines the evidence behind various approaches (produce prescriptions, medically tailored groceries, medically tailored meals), including what we know—and still don’t know—about their effects on health outcomes, utilization, and costs. The talk will explore some of the practical and policy challenges of bringing Food Is Medicine into health care, highlight where the evidence is strongest and where important gaps remain, and offer opportunities for clinicians and health systems to help shape the next generation of Food Is Medicine programs.
