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Answers to Questions from Federal Panel
CDC developed the Food Service Guidelines for Federal Facilities (FSG) to improve access to healthier foods and beverages at federal facilities. The FSG provides specific standards for food and nutrition (aligned with the Dietary Guidelines for Americans), energy and waste reduction, sourcing of local foods, food safety, and behavioral design (strategies to encourage selection of healthier foods).
Melissa Habedank, Speaker Interview
In our final speaker interview, we sat down with our fantastic Chair for the Food as Medicine: Policy Summit, Melissa Habedank (Vice President, AICR).
Hilary Seligman, Speaker Interview
In our next speaker interview, we sat down with Hilary Seligman, Professor of Medicine and of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at University of California, San Francisco.
Alissa Wassung Speaker Interview
In our next speaker interview, we sat down with Alissa Wassung, Executive Director of the Food Is Medicine Coalition. She shared how the Food Is Medicine Coalition is working to advance the movement, and what they hope the next few years will hold.
Pam Schwartz Speaker Interview
In our next speaker interview, we sat down with Pam Schwartz, Executive Director, Community Health at Kaiser Permanente. She shared with us how Kaiser are advancing access to healthy food, the interventions Kaiser Permanente offer to their members experiencing food insecurity and how Kaiser Permanente are partnering with stakeholders across the spectrum to catalyze the momentum from the 2022 White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health and help move us all forward.
Nebeyou Abebe Speaker Interview
In our fourth speaker interview, we sat down with Nebeyou Abebe, SVP, Social Determinants of Health at Highmark Health.
In our third speaker interview, we sat down with Amy Yaroch to hear her thoughts on the space. She shared with us how the Gretchen Swanson Center for Nutrition is working to advance the Food as Medicine movement, how Chat GPT is changing the game and how the Food as Medicine space has accelerated over the past year.
Luisa Furstenberg-Beckman Speaker Interview
In our second speaker interview, we sat down with Luisa Furstenberg-Beckman, Produce Prescription Program Manager at DC Greens. She shared with us what DC Greens are doing to advance Food as Medicine and what DC hopes the next few years will hold.
Tambra Raye Stevenson Speaker Interview
In the first of our speaker interviews, we sat down with Tambra Raye Stevenson, Founder & CEO of WANDA. She shared how WANDA is actively advancing the Food as Medicine movement with an equity and intersectional lens. Tambra also shared her insights on what actions each of us can take to advance the Food as Medicine movement.
