Our Science Advisors
Health Care by Food is backed by a network of multidisciplinary experts who together bring decades of research, clinical experience and community engagement to redefine how we think about health and nutrition. From leading researchers in cardiovascular and population health to advocates for food equity and policy change, our experts drive the initiative's mission to integrate food as a core element of health care.
Research Planning Group
Policy Evaluation Task Force
Health Equity & Common Measures Task Force
Field Based Infrastructure Task Force
The Field-Based Infrastructure Task Force is charged with outlining essential elements to deliver food is medicine interventions within health care systems, with a goal of providing recommendations on tools in testing and implementing these programs.
Platform Development Task Force
The goal for the Platform Development Task Force is to establish a roadmap for data platform development and a framework for assessing different platforms that can be used to support the automation of behavioral intervention trials.
Cooperative Studies Group
The Cooperative Studies Group closely partners with each funded study, aiding with human-centered design, behavioral science considerations, planned implementation and community engagement, and providing supplemental statistical and cost effectiveness research expertise as needed. The task forces within this group review each funded protocol and provide composite reviews back to the teams highlighting major and minor suggestions for improvement as well as any “must dos.” Teams are then required to provide a “response to reviewers” with further discussion if requested by either reviewers of the project team. In addition, all teams participate in training in human-centered design through workshops and individual coaching of their project teams.
The group is comprised of five task forces:
