Food is Medicine Initiative

The Food is Medicine Initiative, announced in September 2022 by the American Heart Association and The Rockefeller Foundation, with inaugural partner Kroger, at the White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition and Health, seeks to ensure patients receive medical prescriptions for healthy food to help prevent and manage chronic disease.

Our vision is to accelerate a future in which millions of patients receive the benefit of a more holistic approach to diet and health, health care professionals and practitioners know how food is medicine programs can help prevent and manage disease, and payors have sufficient, objective cost and effectiveness evidence for reimbursing food is medicine programs.

This national initiative will provide the large-scale clinical evidence required to help identify, support and implement the most viable food is medicine strategies.