Innovations in the Field of Food is Medicine
Cosponsored with Funders Concerned About AIDS Providing healthy, nutritionally appropriate food to prevent or address specific health conditions is a rapidly growing and evolving field. This webinar was about the latest innovations and leadership efforts in the “Food is Medicine” movement, including Community Servings’ launch of the Massachusetts Food is Medicine State Plan and the…
When Hospitals Deliver More Than Health Care
This webinar was a conversation with Randy Oostra, President and CEO of ProMedica, about how health systems translate understanding about the social determinants of health into action.
HEAL Learning Community Call 1.24.18
Listen to the Jan 24, 2018 HEAL Learning Community call.
Policy Strategies to Reduce the Consumption of Sugar-Sweetened Beverages
This webinar covered the current state of sugar-sweetened tax campaigns and tax policy implementation, the returns on investment sugar-sweetened beverage policy efforts have for foundations and their communities, and how grantmakers of all sizes and levels of policy experience can become involved in efforts to reduce the consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages.
Food Is Medicine: Research, Policy, & State of the Field
On this webinar, participants learned about the “food is medicine” approach and its historical roots, the state of the science, details of a new three-year study funded by California’s legislature, and how “food is medicine” has evolved into a national effort to make medically-tailored meals an essential health benefit.
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