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At-a-Glance: Research Action Plan Recommendations Our second recommendations list is focused on funding equity-centered Food is Medicine research: ✅ Funders and researchers must ensure that there are adequate resources for the time and necessary steps required for true equity-centered research. This includes time for study planning and training to ensure that researchers fully listen to community and practitioner voices and effectively integrate equity principles into the research design framework. ✅ Congress should provide the National Institutes of Health (NIH) with significant funding dedicated to Food is Medicine research. The NIH should also leverage its own resources to continue its path-breaking work in emphasizing and expanding Food is Medicine research, including by establishing Food is Medicine Centers of Excellence. ✅ Health care payers should partner with government agencies and one another to enable more cross-disciplinary Food is Medicine research that is ambitious and builds in equity-centered evaluation components from the outset, especially for high-impact opportunities like state Medicaid waiver programs. Access the full Food is Medicine Research Action Plan here: www.aspenfood.org/FIM #AspenFoodisMedicine #FoodisMedicine #HealthEquity #Research #Healthcare

At-a-Glance: Research Action Plan Recommendations The first of our recommendations is focused on how to design equity-centered Food is Medicine research: ✅ Food is Medicine research should make health equity central to its methods, conduct, and outcomes because diet-related illnesses and their risk factors are major drivers of health disparities. ✅ Researchers should seek out and include the perspectives of community members who are eligible to receive the intervention in question. At the same time, researchers and funders should seek out a broad variety of perspectives and partnerships with Food is Medicine implementers. ✅ Research teams should surface and identify their team members’ perspectives and potential biases, and fully engage all team members and partners in study design, planning, and decision-making. ✅ Teams should monitor study recruitment and retention to ensure that the study population fully represents the population being targeted for the intervention. Participants should also be properly compensated for their time. Access the full Food is Medicine Research Action Plan: www.aspenfood.org/FIM #AspenFoodisMedicine #FoodisMedicine #HealthEquity #Research #Healthcare

“We're building on critical evidence that the health care system can help patients access and consume healthy food.” American Heart Association is pleased to announce the first Request for Proposals (RFP) for its new #FoodIsMedicine Initiative, funded with support from The Rockefeller Foundation. RFP applications are open through November 6th, 2023. This RFP is focused on feasibility and implementation science, specifically achieving high rates of enrollment and engagement, and testing ways to achieve significant short-term changes in healthy eating behavior. Equity is central to this initiative, and applicants will be strongly encouraged to use a patient-centered approach to study design, and wherever possible, input from lived experience of patient participants and practitioners should guide program design. The research that springs from this first RFP will build the foundation for future large-scale clinical trials. Ultimately, the initiative’s research aims to generate the definitive evidence needed to provide widespread coverage of food-based treatment options for the millions of Americans living with chronic disease.

At-a-Glance: Research Action Plan Recommendations The first of our recommendations is focused on how to design equity-centered Food is Medicine research: ✅ Food is Medicine research should make health equity central to its methods, conduct, and outcomes because diet-related illnesses and their risk factors are major drivers of health disparities. ✅ Researchers should seek out and include the perspectives of community members who are eligible to receive the intervention in question. At the same time, researchers and funders should seek out a broad variety of perspectives and partnerships with Food is Medicine implementers. ✅ Research teams should surface and identify their team members’ perspectives and potential biases, and fully engage all team members and partners in study design, planning, and decision-making. ✅ Teams should monitor study recruitment and retention to ensure that the study population fully represents the population being targeted for the intervention. Participants should also be properly compensated for their time. Access the full Food is Medicine Research Action Plan: www.aspenfood.org/FIM #AspenFoodisMedicine #FoodisMedicine #HealthEquity #Research #Healthcare

The proliferation of Food is Medicine interventions and their increasing use within health care has been mostly ahead of the research, driven in large part by nonprofits and advocates who have developed creative programs to meet the nutrition-related needs of people living with chronic illness. To inform the next decade of Food is Medicine research, the recommendations in this Action Plan: • Offer concrete guidance on how to embed equity throughout the Food is Medicine research continuum; • Identify key considerations to ensure that research designs are robust and appropriate for yielding the most valuable and actionable information; • Identify the most urgent questions that have yet to be explored; and • Describe how funders and other stakeholders can support the most valuable research in the field. Download the 2024 Research Action Plan: www.aspenfood.org/FIM #foodismedicine #research

The proliferation of Food is Medicine interventions and their increasing use within health care has been mostly ahead of the research, driven in large part by nonprofits and advocates who have developed creative programs to meet the nutrition-related needs of people living with chronic illness. To inform the next decade of Food is Medicine research, the recommendations in this Action Plan by Food and Society at Aspen Institute: • Offer concrete guidance on how to embed equity throughout the Food is Medicine research continuum; • Identify key considerations to ensure that research designs are robust and appropriate for yielding the most valuable and actionable information; • Identify the most urgent questions that have yet to be explored; and • Describe how funders and other stakeholders can support the most valuable research in the field. Download the 2024 Research Action Plan: www.aspenfood.org/FIM #foodismedicine #research

Call for LOI for Portes Foundation Research Grants - 1 year -Up to $50K | The Portes Foundation Is Currently Accepting Letters of Intent: June 1 – September 1, 2024 The Portes Foundation, in association with the Institute of Medicine of Chicago (IOMC), solicits letters of intent annually for research projects in health promotion and disease prevention. To be considered for an award to be granted in February of 2025, a letter of intent should be submitted no later than September 1, 2024. After an initial review, select projects will be asked to submit a full proposal that will be due December 1, 2024. Funding for awards will be available in 2025. Research Proposals The Portes Foundation invites proposals that explore research or implementation ideas important in health promotion and disease prevention. These projects may be investigative in etiologic factors, preventive measures, primary and secondary prevention screening, and education. Projects in patient education or health professionals’ education will also be considered. All projects must include a complete and thorough evaluation component. More>https://lnkd.in/evZfzsVu Questions? Contact the IOMC office at 312.709.2685 or send an email to researchgrants@iomc.org. #achieve #blackleadership #latinoleaders #grants #awards #research #publichealth #communityhealth #populationhealth #diseasemanagement #medicine #healthcare

We need more (and better) codes to integrate nutrition services into health care payment and delivery models! The Coding4Food project works to address this gap by reaching consensus on Food is Medicine intervention definitions to create new HCPCS codes. Learn more about this issue and the Coding4Food project from my colleagues on an upcoming Root Cause Coalition webinar. How New Social Drivers of Health Medical Codes Can Change the Face of Food as Medicine | Tuesday, September 3rd | 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm (EST) https://lnkd.in/gDakXSa6

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If you're interested in food as medicine, I recommend you tune in today to the "Food Is Medicine" conversation that is going on right now. The first ever HHS Food Is Medicine Summit. This, full-day event, is for policymakers, advocates, researchers, and a wide variety of stakeholders with equities in the Food is Medicine space to engage in a substantive conversation about why food is medicine is important, what actions are being taken to promote this concept, and what stakeholders can do to bolster this work. Here's the link: https://lnkd.in/dYX-j8cx