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HHS and USDA have released the Scientific Report of the 2025 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee. The report contains the 2025 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee’s (Committee) independent, evid...

The State of U.S. Wealth Inequality presents a timely look at average, inflation-adjusted wealth for various demographic groups. The St. Louis Fed’s Institute for Economic Equity provides quarterly ...

The public health system—responsible for protecting and promoting health in every community— needs sustained investment, policy support, and protection from political interference. This report is ...

Food is a basic human necessity, and access to nutritious food is essential to people’s health and well-being. However, racial injustice embedded in the US food system causes economic, environmental...

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has released its new Food Is Medicine Virtual Toolkit. The Toolkit was developed in response to the National Strategy on Hunger, Nutrition, and H...

Background: Most U.S. households have consistent, dependable access to enough food for active, healthy living, meaning, they are food secure. However, some households experience food insecurity at tim...

Disparities in access to health care are persistent and contribute to poor health outcomes for many populations around the world. Barriers to access are often similar across countries, despite differe...

Food security is widely recognized as a critical social determinant of health. A robust and continually expanding body of research documents how poor access to nutrition has been linked to some of the...

The Food is Medicine Coalition, in partnership with the Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation (CHLPI) at Harvard Law School, created a comprehensive guide of existing State Medicaid authoriti...

Racial and ethnic disparities in health remain persistent in the United States, driven by inequities in access to and utilization of health care and social and economic factors that drive health, ofte...