9th Annual Food is Medicine Symposium: Session Two

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Please join the Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation of Harvard Law School and Community Servings for a webinar series with two virtual sessions! Session 2: Food is Medicine for Pregnancy, Postpartum, and Child Health Wednesday, December 8, 1:00-2:00 PM ET SPEAKERS:  Stephanie Ettinger de Cuba, Executive Director, Children’s HealthWatch Cissie Bonini, Executive Director, […]

9th Annual Food is Medicine Symposium: Session One

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Please join the Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation of Harvard Law School and Community Servings for a webinar series with two virtual sessions! Session 1: Food is Medicine for Older Adults Wednesday, December 1, 1:00-2:00 PM ET SPEAKERS:  Uche Akobundu, Senior Director of Nutrition Strategy, Meals on Wheels America Christine Sullivan, Program Manager, Coastline […]

Health Equity and the Cancer Care Continuum in Kentucky: Access to Medically Supportive Food and Nutrition

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Poor nutrition, exacerbated by food insecurity, is closely associated with health outcomes across the cancer care continuum, from prevention through survivorship. Health care providers and payers, including public health care programs such as Medicare and Medicaid, are increasingly seeking clinical and non-clinical opportunities to address food insecurity and malnutrition in patients to improve health outcomes […]

A Nourishing Prescription: Food as Medicine to Promote Health and Health Equity

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A Virtual Conference with Sarah Downer, JD, Benjamin Perkins, MA, MDiv, and Hilary Seligman, MD, MAS, moderated by Christina Roberto, PhD. Food has a clear impact on health and well-being, and the Food as Medicine movement embraces this concept by not only recommending healthy food but also providing it to those in need. From medically […]

Food Policy for Greater Health Equity

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FOOD POLICY FOR GREATER HEALTH EQUITY This is the first in a series of virtual sessions that will create a space for dialogue with industry experts and community members on the most equitable and effective policy options for reducing the consumption of foods and beverages high in added sugar as part of the FLPC Approaches […]

Climate Action Through Upcycled Food

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Roughly 30 to 40 percent of food produced is wasted and that’s a big problem for society and the planet due to unnecessary resource use, failure to feed hungry people, and harmful greenhouse gases emitted as unused food rots in landfill. According to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Office, food waste is responsible for […]

Health Law and COVD-19

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COVID-19 and the Law: Law and Policy to Address Basic Needs and Marginalized Populations is a colloquium series that will be hosted throughout Fall 2020 to bring together members of the Harvard Law School community to explore and assess, through discussions with various HLS experts, the legal responses to COVID-19 across areas of law ranging […]

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