Food As Medicine Initiative

Mission and Vision

• Our Philosophy

  • We believe that everyone has a right to healthy, high quality, and culturally appropriate food.

• Vison

  • The overarching goal of our work is to realize a future where everyone can identify, access, prepare, and eat high quality, culturally appropriate food to achieve optimal health.

    • Identify: By providing health education, we equip individuals with tools to make healthy decisions about their diet and health.

    • Access: We aim to improve access to healthy food in homes and communities through programs such as medically tailored food boxes, coupons for fruit and vegetables, and by dismantling barriers that prevent people from obtaining healthy options.

    • Prepare: Cooking education programs provide individuals with the knowledge and skills to plan, purchase, and cook healthy foods.

    • Eat: As a culmination of our identify, access and prepare initiatives, we support individuals and communities to eat healthy foods and achieve optimal health.

• Shared Values of our lab include:

  • Data-driven decision making

  • Curiosity

  • Creativity

  • Adaptability

  • Mutual respect

  • Cultural humility