Massachusetts Food is Medicine State Plan | Western Mass Regional Listening Session, Pioneer Valley

Caring Health Center 1049 Main Street, Springfield, MA, United States

  Pioneer Valley: Wednesday, May 2 from 12:00 - 1:30 PM at the Caring Health Center, 1049 Main St., Springfield MA 01103 (free valet parking and lunch provided). Residents from any part of Western Mass, including Berkshire County, are welcome to attend. Event Details Food is essential to health, but too many Massachusetts residents lack access to the healthy food they […]

Massachusetts Food is Medicine State Plan | Western Mass Regional Listening Session, Berkshire County

Berkshire Community College 1350 West Street, Pittsfield, MA, United States

Berkshire County: Friday, May 4 from 12:00 – 1:30 PM at Berkshire Community College, Room G12, 1350 West St. Pittsfield, MA 01201 (free parking and lunch provided). Residents from any part of Western Mass, including Pioneer Valley, are welcome to attend. Event Details Food is essential to health, but too many Massachusetts residents lack access to the healthy food […]

Southeast Regional Food is Medicine Listening Session

Brockton Neighborhood Health Center 63 Main Street, Brockton, MA, United States

Event Details Food is essential to health, but too many Massachusetts residents lack access to the healthy food they need to heal and be well. The goal of the Massachusetts Food is Medicine State Plan is to improve the health of Massachusetts residents living with acute or chronic illness by increasing access to crucial food […]

Cape Cod & Islands Food is Medicine Listening Session

Barnstable Senior Center 825 Falmouth Road, Hyannis, MA, United States

Event Details Food is essential to health, but too many Massachusetts residents lack access to the healthy food they need to heal and be well. The goal of the Massachusetts Food is Medicine State Plan is to improve the health of Massachusetts residents living with acute or chronic illness by increasing access to crucial food […]

Shared Use and Community Kitchens Training

Franklin County Community Development Corporation 324 Wells Street Greenfield, MA 01301 324 Wells Street, Greenfield, MA, United States

  Join experts from Franklin County and greater Massachusetts to learn the basics about using community and commercial kitchens. Thinking of turning pounds of tomatoes into sauce for donation to a local food pantry? Pickling lots garden veggies? Starting your own food business? Does your town have a school or church kitchen that could be […]

6th Annual Food is Medicine Symposium

Harvard Law School Cambridge, MA, United States

REGISTER ONLINE NOW   Join the Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation of Harvard Law School, the Harvard Food Law and Policy Clinic, and Community Servings as we present initial data and results from the first-in-the-nation Food is Medicine statewide plan, take an in-depth look at newly published research demonstrating that medically tailored meals are proven to reduce healthcare costs and […]

Human Rights in the Domestic HIV Response: Challenges & Opportunities

Harvard Law School, Wasserstein Hall, WCC 2009 1585 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA, United States

Monday, March 11, 2019 | 12PM-1PM | Harvard Law School, WCC 2009 In the 2019 State of the Union, the Administration announced a plan to end the HIV epidemic by 2030. But advocates have expressed grave concern that the current US human rights climate presents serious obstacles to achieving this goal, despite tremendous scientific advances […]

Fighting Gender Identity Discrimination in Health Care

Harvard Law School, WCC 1010 Cambridge, MA, United States

Noah Lewis, JD, ’05 is the founder and executive director of Transcend Legal, a national, New York City-based organization focused on eliminating barriers to insurance coverage for transgender-related health care.  During this lunch presentation, he will discuss the anti-discrimination theories that underlie his work fighting against transgender health care exclusions in provider and insurer policies. 

Social Determinants of Health – A View from Inside the Hospital

Harvard Law School, Wasserstein Hall, WCC 3018 Cambridge, MA, United States

Neal Tyrrell, MD, is a Pediatric Hospitalist at UMass Memorial, responsible for the hospital’s quality improvement.  Building off of a case-based “Mortality & Morbidity” model of critical self-evaluation, Dr. Tyrrell will discuss a key gap between the theory and practice.  A growing body of literature identifies social determinants of health – like food, housing, education, […]

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