Toolkits, briefs, and clinical guides you can put to work.

Medically Tailored Meals (MTM): 6 months of meals reduced hospitalizations, ED visits, and costs in Massachusetts Medicaid

In the largest study of its kind, MTM were found to reduce both healthcare utilization and costs.

Food is Medicine Toolkit

A guide for clinicians, health system leaders, and communities to design, implement, and sustain Food is Medicine programs.

Designing Medically Tailored Grocery (MTG) Benefits

A guide for establishing an approved product list for an MTG benefit that is both comprehensive and outcomes-oriented.

Estimated Impact of Produce Prescriptions in 50 U.S. States

Results from a simulation model estimate that produce prescriptions could significantly improve health and be cost-saving in most states and cost-effective in all states.

Estimated Impact of Medically Tailored Meals in 50 U.S. States

Results from a simulation model estimate that medically tailored meals improve health and save healthcare dollars.

Public Perceptions of Food is Medicine in the United States

This fact sheet summarizes results from a national survey on Food is Medicine, highlighting the strong public interest and demand for Food is Medicine policies and programs.

Optimizing GLP-1 Therapy for Obesity with Nutrition and Food is Medicine

This fact sheet summarizes challenges associated with GLP-1 therapy for obesity and explains how nutrition and food is medicine play critical roles in optimizing the benefits of GLP-1 treatment.

Clinician Education and Resources

Gaples Institute Clinical Nutrition Course

This highly-vetted clinical nutrition course emphasizes practical application of food is medicine–97% of clinicians report it will change their practice. Spotlighted by the White House in 2024 for transformative impact.

Food is Medicine Fact Sheet

Facts, stats, and definitions around all things food is medicine.

Clinician Education and Resources

Food is Medicine 101: Translating Evidence to Action

A continuing education course from the Friedman School at Tufts University

Screening Tools

Nutrition Security Screener

A 2-question clinical screening tool with a brief preamble for identifying nutrition insecurity in patients and food is medicine program participants.

Food is Medicine: A State Medicaid Policy Toolkit

The purpose of this Toolkit is to build upon CMS’s 2023 guidance by providing a roadmap by which state officials can identify the most feasible and impactful approaches to address patient nutrition needs in their state Medicaid and CHIP programs.

Doctoring Our Diet II: Nutrition Education for Physicians is Overdue

This report identifies the policy opportunities most likely to drive an increase in nutrition education at various stages of medical education.

Clinician Education and Resources

Lifestyle Medicine & Food as Medicine Essentials Course Bundle

Three modules, four presentations, and 5.5 hours of content to provide a foundational, evidence-based introduction to the field, and focused nutrition education for the prevention and treatment of chronic disease.

FIMC Accreditation

The FIMC Accreditation Program synthesizes decades of quality service provision into a standard for the field that ensures fidelity to the medically tailored meal model.

Aspen Institute Food is Medicine Research Action Plan

This report fully updates the quickly evolving body of food is medicine research and authoritatively describes the opportunities as well as the challenges of scaling, evaluating, and delivering health-promoting food where it is most needed.

Healthy Eating Rx: Improving Nutrition Through Health Care

B ipartisan policy recommendations for 1. T raining health care professionals and educating patients and the public on nutrition; and 2.

True Cost of Food: Food is Medicine Case Study

E valuating the health and economic benefits of medically tailored meals and produce prescription programs , based on t wo national case studies .

Supporting Food & Nutrition Security Through Healthcare

A guide for healthcare systems and their p ublic h ealth and c ommunity p artners to implement Food is Medicine approaches.

National Strategy on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health

From the Biden-Harris administration, whole-of-government approaches for addressing challenges across five key domains.

Federal Nutrition Advisory Coalition Recommendations for Strengthening Nutrition Research

An expert coalition’s vision for strengthening existing federal nutrition research and cross-government coordination to prevent costly diet-related illnesses , better address food insecurity , accelerat e scientific discoveries, bolster economic growth, and improv e public health and population resilience .

Task Force on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health Report

Actionable policy recommendations shared with the White House ahead of the 2022 White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health. Many of the report’s recommendations were ultimately reflected in the White House National Strategy .

Patient Education and Resources

Healthy Food Guide Español

Una herramienta para clasificar alimentos de acuerdo a su contenido nutrimental que abarca desde opciones saludables hasta aquellas con mínimos beneficios.

Patient Education and Resources

Healthy Food Guide

A resource for rating foods based on their nutritional value, ranging from healthy options to those with minimal benefits.

Transforming Agrifood Systems Amidst the Climate Crisis

Recommendations for innovative and diverse financing and business mechanisms to transform a grifood system s and support human and planetary health .

Nutrition Science Fact Sheet

The damaging effect of poor nutrition on human health and the U.S. economy , the role of nutrition science in remedying this relationship, and the need for a coordinated national nutrition strategy to improve health outcomes for all Americans, reduce health care spending, improve national security, promote business innovation, and promote health equity .

NIH Office of Nutrition Research (ONR) Fact Sheet

T he role of the NIH Office of Nutrition Research (ONR), the need for investment in this critical office, and the expected public benefit of a fully-funded ONR budget.