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Webinars,Training and Upcoming Events in Health,
Healthy Eating | Nutrition
April 7-9, 2025: The Rise Summit on Social Determinants of Health (Louisville, KY)
May 7-8, 2025: Medicaid Food Security Network National Summit 2025 (Washington, DC)
May 7-8, 2025:Food as Medicine Network Live 2025 (Chicago, IL)
May 20-22, 2025: 2025 Nutrition Incentive Hub Convening (Minneapolis, MN)
May 20, 2025: Improving Health While Managing Healthcare Spending: Enter Food Is Medicine(Washington, DC)
May 21, 2025: Movers & Shakers Webinar with Katie Ettman & Mollie Van Lieu (Virtual)
June 3-4, 2025: Food as Medicine 5th Annual Summit (Chicago, IL)
June 11, 2025: Food is Medicine Symposium (Durham, NC)
July 10, 2025: Exploring the Types of Evidence Behind Diet and Chronic Disease: A Webinar(virtual)
July 22, 2025: American Society for Nutrition - Implementation and Behavioral Science: Helping Americans Consume a Healthy Diet, 7/22 @ 1pm ET
July 29, 2025: Fair Food Network - Rooted in Community: Nourishment, Culture, and Connection Through Food, 7/29 @ 12pm ET
July 29, 2025: Mathematica - WIC and FMNP Modernization Evaluation Annual Webinar, 7/29 @ 1pm ET
September 14 - 16, 2025: University of Minnesota - Seventh Annual Conference on Native American Nutrition, 9/14-9/16 in Mystic Lake Center, Prior Lake, Minnesota
October 8-9, 2025: The 3rd Annual Food is Medicine National Summit(Boston, MA)
October 21-22, 2025: Think Regeneration’s Advancing Food Is Medicine 2025(Oklahoma City, OK and Edmund, OK)
October 23, 2025: 3rd Annual Florida Food is Medicine Symposium (Virtual & in-person)
October 23-25, 2025: 5th Annual Food As Medicine Symposium (Buffalo, NY)
October 27-28, 2025: Food as Medicine Policy Summit (Washington, DC)
Active Living
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine - Exploring the Role of Physical Activity in Obesity Treatment, Body Weight Management, and Related Health Outcomes in Adults: A Workshop, 7/29-7/30
Public Health
Creating Healthy Communities: Arts in Public Health Convening
October 14 –16, 2025
Newark, NJ
This is the only U.S. conference that explicitly focuses on the intersection of the arts and public health. With the overarching aim of amplifying the power of arts and culture to connect communities and enhance health and well-being, the Creating Healthy Communities Convening will bring together more than 500 people from across the United States who are thinking, working and innovating at the intersections of arts and culture, public health and community development. Designed to foster connection, dialogue, strategic thinking and learning, Creating Healthy Communities is a place for artists, arts organizations, public health and healthcare professionals, civic leaders and community organizers to come together to envision a healthier tomorrow through arts and culture. For more information and to register, click here.
American Public Health Association Annual Meeting and Expo Making the Public's Health a National Priority
November 2–5
Washington, DC
Each year, APHA’s Annual Meeting and Expo convenes about 12,000 public health professionals and partners from around the world to engage, collaborate and grow. The Annual Meeting brings together a broad spectrum of professionals across a variety of disciplines. For more information and to register.
Recently published and in the news this year,
Healthy Eating | Nutrition
6.18.25 Morning AgClips | Community Farms and the Food Is Medicine Movement
6.18.25 Fresh Plaza | IFPA CEO Cathy Burns rallies industry to 'Fight for Fresh' at The Washington Conference
6.17.25 About Fresh | About Fresh and Neighborhood Healthcare Partner to Launch Innovative Fresh Connect Produce Prescription Pilot to Improve Health Outcomes for Diabetic Patients
6.13.25 The Hill |Medically tailored nutrition can help make America healthy
6.12.25 Richmond Free Press | Shalom Farms initiative links fresh food to chronic illness care
6.10.25 Daily Montanan | ‘A ton of confusion’: Farmers market SNAP programs push forward amid uncertainty
6.10.25 LAPORTECOUNTY.LIFE | Franciscan Health offering Produce Prescription program in Munster
6.10.25 The Oregonian | Readers respond: All Oregon children should get healthy food
6.09.25 Mountain Xpress | Western NC braces for end of Medicaid program that funded food, health support
6.07.25 Native News Online | Lawmakers Vow to Restore Tribal Healthcare Protections Cut by Trump Administration
6.03.25 Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health | What Would It Take for All Americans to Have Access to Healthy Foods?
6.03.25 foodtank | Harnessing the Power of Nutrition: Q&A with Dr. Kofi Essel
6.03.25 Milken Institute | A Blueprint for Employer-Led Food as Health Strategies
5.30.25 EIN PRESSWIRE | Food as Medicine: Groundbreaking Oklahoma law encourages integration of nutrition into healthcare
5.28.25 bluebook | The next steps for the MAHA Commission
5.23.25 American Heart Association | Honoree shows communities exceptional dedication through patient care, research
5.22.25 Johns Hopkins School of Nursing | The Boundaries of Health: Debating ROI of Programs and Policies that Integrate Social/Clinical Care
5.19.25 Low Income Relief | Free Fruits & Veggies This Summer with These 6 Amazing Programs
5.15.25 Yahoo!life | Prescribing Produce: How the MercyMed farm is healing health issues through fresh food
5.15.25 Medscape | Nutritional Education Paired With Produce Vouchers Improved Families’ Food Insecurity
5.15.25 OXFORD ACADEMIC | Unpacking scalability in produce prescription: A qualitative implementation science investigation using the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research (peer-reviewed)
5.13.25 KNOE NEWS 8 | LSU AgCenter partners with healthcare providers to launch fresh produce prescription program
5.12.25 BusinessWire | Collaborative Healthy Eating Initiative Sees Substantial Improvement in Food Security and HbA1C Levels for Type 2 Diabetes Participants
5.20.25 KTLA5 | Oklahoma’s Groundbreaking 'Food is Medicine Act' Opens Doors for Local Clean Food Innovators
5.19.25 Fresh Plaza | From Pharmacy to Farmacy: Giving Food and Healthcare Systems a Fresh Start
5.15.25 Centene Corp | Food Is Medicine: A Strategic Solution for Better Health Outcomes
5.12.25 ANNUAL REVIEWS | Health Outcomes of Produce Prescription Programs Associated with Gus Schumacher Nutrition Incentive Program Funding(peer-reviewed)
5.9.25 Sage Journals | Evaluation of a Produce Prescription (PRx) Program With Food Literacy and Culinary Medicine Education for Rural, Uninsured Patients With Type-2 Diabetes(peer-reviewed)
5.7.25 Delaware Live | Delaware launches ‘Food is Medicine’ initiative to tackle chronic disease through nutrition
5.1.25 MWE | Food as Medicine: A Deep Dive Into Reimbursement
4.29.25 Mass.gov | MassHealth Nutrition Program Reduces Health Care Costs and Hospital Visits According to UMass Chan Medical School Study
4.28.25 ABC12 news | Hurley's Food FARMacy helping deliver nutrition to those in need
4.21.25 Sage Journals | Protocol of a community-based produce prescription intervention; produce for health in Hampshire county’s food desert communities(peer-reviewed)
4.18.25 ROI-NJ | Virtua Health to debut new mobile grocery store, first mobile ‘Food Farmacy’
4.17.25 LAWNDALE NEWS | An Urban Farm–Anchored Produce Prescription Program’s Impacts On Weight Reduction
4.16.25 Milken Institute | Fighting Food Insecurity to Improve Health
4.15.25 ScienceDirect | Produce prescription to improve health among adults with type 2 diabetes in Australia: Protocol for a randomised controlled trial(peer-reviewed)
4.4.25 Fergus Now | Lake Region Launches Food Prescription Pilot Program for People with Diabetes
3.19.25 Forbes | Food Is Medicine: The ‘Big Bet’ Changing How America Eats
3.18.25 KSBW8 | Fresh food box program resumes in Salinas after funding reversal
3.18.25 KSL.com | Why doctors are giving some patients prescriptions for food
3.12.25 Progressive Grocer | Instacart Helping to Make Veterans Healthier
3.12.25 Retail TouchPoints | Albertsons Sets 1.5 Billion Meal Goal; Instacart to Pilot Medically Tailored Groceries for Veterans
3.12.25 Health Affairs | Food Is Medicine In The US: A National Survey Of Public Perceptions Of Care, Practices, And Policies (peer-reviewed)
3.10.25 Science Direct | Community Engaged Co-design and Piloting of the food4moms Produce Prescription Program for Pregnant Latina Women (peer-reviewed)
3.6.25 Managed Healthcare Executive | Medicaid Spending Curbed by North Carolina Program Addressing Social Determinants of Health
3.4.25 Scope | A prescription for produce improves health, new research finds
2.28.25 Public Health Nutrition | Equitable Approaches for Public Health Data Collection Among Diverse Populations: Findings from a National Evaluation of Fruit and Vegetable Incentives (peer-reviewed)
2.27.25 Business North Carolina | `Food is medicine’ focus of health partnership study
2.27.25 Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) | Medicaid Spending and Health-Related Social Needs in the North Carolina Health Opportunities Pilots Program (peer-reviewed)
2.17.25 MedCity News | What Tufts, Kaiser Permanente and Others Hope to Achieve with the Food is Medicine National Network of Excellence
2.17.25 WRTV Indianapolis | New program uses food as medicine
2.15.25 NewsBreak | Fresh Start Market offers produce prescriptions for chronic condition patients
2.13.25 PR Newswire | Rockefeller Foundation Invests $3.5 Million To Support American Farmers, Improve Nutrition & Address Chronic Disease
2.13.25 WISHTV.COM | Fresh Start Market offers produce prescriptions for chronic condition patients
2.12.25 Newsday | Cornell Cooperative Extension of Nassau County's NY Fresh Rx program delivers its 1,000th box of fresh produce
2.7.25 Pioneer Press | HealthPartners gives kids discounted ‘prescription’ for fruits and veggies
2.7.25 The Lansing Journal | Franciscan Health offers free Produce Prescription Program
2.7.25 Healthcare IT News | Health system heavy hitters team on new network for nutrition-based interventions
2.6.25 Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior | Nutrition Education Across Gus Schumacher Nutrition Incentive Programs: A Landscape Analysis (peer-reviewed)
2.5.25 Medical Press | Diet may influence risk of depression and Alzheimer's disease
2.4.25 communications medicine | Multi-dimensional evidence from the UK Biobank shows the impact of diet and macronutrient intake on aging (peer-reviewed)
1.31. 25 The Daily Sentinel |Food prescription program expands into Grand Valley
1.27.25 Sage Journals | Implementing Food as Medicine During COVID-19: Produce Prescriptions and Integrative Group Medical Visits in Federally Qualified Health Centers(peer-reviewed)
1.14.25 Frontiers | Gaining stakeholder perspectives to shape a produce prescription program to improve maternal and birth outcomes: a qualitative study (peer-reviewed)
New Research | Additional Peer-Reviewed Publications
Fiedler, D.C., Ezekiel, M., Vasicsek, R., Felix, C., Lee, D.L., Thompson, H., Gosliner, W., Heiges, J., Willits, S., Madsen, K., & Ritchie, L.D. (2025). Lessons learned from reusable serviceware implementation in school lunch in a California school district: a qualitative exploration of school staff and parents’ perceptions. Journal of Child Nutrition & Management, 49(1).
Forrestal, S., Boyle, M., Bleiweiss-Sande, R., Franckle, R., Hu, M., Kali, J., Neelan, T., and Niland, K. (2025). Study of Nutrition and Activity in Child Care Settings II (SNACS-II). Prepared by Mathematica, AG-3198-1-9F-0151. Alexandria, VA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Food and Nutrition Service, Office of Policy Support, Project Officer: Constance Newman.
Olarte, D. A., Gosliner, W., Chapman, L. E., Hecht, C., Hecht, K., Punam Ohri‐Vachaspati, Patel, A. I., Read, M., Ritchie, L. D., Schwartz, M. B., Zuercher, M. D., Orta‐Aleman, D., Polacsek, M., & Juliana. (2025). Foodservice Directors’ Perceived Barriers to Student Participation in School Meals When Meals Were Served Free of Charge During the 2021–2022 School Year. Journal of School Health.
Orta-Aleman, D., Schwartz, M. B., Patel, A. I., Polacsek, M., Hecht, C., Hecht, K., Zuercher, M. D., Ritchie, L., ScM, J. C., & Gosliner, W. (2025). Statewide Universal School Meal Policies and Food Insecurity in Households with Children. American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 107942.
Emerging Opportunities in Dialogues on Health
Nutrients - Call for Papers: Nutrition Policy and Programs in Educational Settings Issue, deadline 8/25
Journal of Human Nutrition and Dietetics - Call for Papers - Advancing Systems-Based Dietetic Practice: Evidence, Innovations, and Impact