Fierce Healthcare February 1, 2024
Anastassia Gliadkovskaya

The U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) announced new private-public partnerships to support the food as medicine movement at its first-ever summit on the topic on Wednesday.

HHS will be teaming up with Instacart, a grocery delivery company and two nonprofits, the Rockefeller Foundation and Feeding America. They will exchange research, communication and implementation of programs and policy priorities to advance the collective understanding of food as medicine.

The all-day summit held Wednesday in Washington, D.C., featured panels on the relationship between nutrition and health for hundreds of educators, community engagement managers, scientists and other stakeholders. It was also livestreamed for the public.

The partnerships are the result of a Congress-funded effort in 2023, through which HHS is...

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