For years, medicine and food existed in parallel worlds: one focused on disease, the other on culture and flavor. Dr. Timothy Harlan has spent his career bridging that divide.
Let’s Work Hand-In-Hand for a Better Future on World Food Day
Join us this World Food Day 2025 to explore powerful solutions to fight hunger, promote healthy diets, and build a sustainable food future—because together, we can nourish the world.
Food Is Medicine Requires Systemic Changes: “It’s No One Discipline’s Job to Solve Food Insecurity”
Amid rising food insecurity and cuts to federal nutrition programs, leaders at Climate Week NYC explore how food can be a tool for health, equity, and community resilience.
Food Is Medicine: Healing Communities at Climate Week NYC
The Food is Medicine Summit at Climate Week NYC will spotlight how food can strengthen communities and support a healthier future.
‘It’s On Us’: Dion’s Chicago Dream Fights Hunger and Builds Wealth
Food is Medicine is a $25 billion market, and the Founder of Dion’s Chicago Dream wants it to serve communities first.
Rooted in Health: How FreshRx Oklahoma Is Redefining Healthcare through Food and Community
FreshRx wants to transform healthcare outcomes by prescribing healthy food to improve patient outcomes and reduce chronic disease.
Food Is Medicine and the Future of Care Delivery
Food Is Medicine is changing how future doctors are trained, encouraging healthcare providers to center nutrition as they work with patients to address diet-related diseases.
Christa Barfield Wants to Flip the Script on Corner Stores
Christa Barfield believes that neighborhood corner stores can offer more than convenience. They can be hubs for fresh, local food.
Harnessing the Power of Nutrition: Q&A with Dr. Kofi Essel
The rise in food as medicine represents a renaissance in the healthcare system, says Dr. Kofi Essel.
Let’s Go to Capitol Hill to Create Action on Food Is Medicine!
Food has incredible power to help us address complex challenges—especially when we consider how transformative Food is Medicine can be.
An Investment in Food Systems Is an Investment in Health
Food is Medicine programs, when designed effectively, can improve eaters’ health, support farmers, and advance nutrition equity.
Transforming Health Through Food: The Role of Education, Access, and Environment
Food is medicine and eating for health go beyond the doctor’s office—learn how equity and environment impact wellbeing.
Nourishing Communities, Advancing Health: Two Days of Dynamic Conversations
These two days of conversation will look at solutions that cultivate nourished, resilient communities.
New Food is Medicine Network Aims to Transform Healthcare
A new national network is working to make food a standard part of healthcare, tackling chronic disease and improving patient outcomes through nutrition.
With 80+ Speakers, Join Us in Bringing Food to the Forefront of Big Conversations at SXSW
Food Tank’s “All Things Food” Summit at SXSW will feature fireside chats, expert panels, interactive chef-curated tastings, music performances, and film screenings.
‘Even One Food Insecure Veteran Is One Too Many:’ How the VA Is Tackling Hunger for U.S. Veterans
Post-9/11 veterans and women veterans are at the highest risk of experiencing food insecurity.
FarmsSHARE: Transforming Food Systems in North Carolina
Learn how FarmsSHARE is transforming food access in North Carolina by connecting local farmers with families in need, fostering community and health.
The Momentum to Improve Food and Nutrition Security in the U.S. Is Growing
The U.S. has made “so much progress” around the National Strategy on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health, says Catherine Oakar, Special Assistant to the President for Community Public Health and Disparities.
The Aspen Institute Releases 2024 Strategy to Integrate Food is Medicine into U.S. Healthcare System
The Aspen Institute’s 2024 Food is Medicine Action Plan describes how to create a more holistic healthcare system where food serves as medicine.
To Change Our Food Systems ‘We Need The Political Will.’
This country making important progress in some policy areas, while other aspects of the food system remain tricky to transform. That’s why we all have to roll up our sleeves and get to work, bringing a better food system to life.
