Resources


Calculating the Costs of Medicaid Food is Medicine (FIM) Interventions
This Medicaid Food Security Network brief provides a framework and methodology for calculating and analyzing the cost-effectiveness and policy implications of FIM programs. Its goal is to help policym...
Maintaining a Commitment to Health Equity
This Institute for Healthcare Improvement Report describes how health care organizations have adapted their health equity work following changes in the social and political landscape in 2025 and provi...
Food is Medicine Community Action Plan
Food & Society at the Aspen Institute launched its Food is Medicine Community Action Plan to support community-based organizations (CBOs) in scaling food-based health interventions. Developed i...
MassHealth Matters to Massachusetts – 2026 Infographic
MassHealth provides health care services to around 2 million Massachusetts residents, brings in significant federal revenue, and serves as a driver of health system reform. In light of recent changes ...
Healthcare as a Public Good
On this episode of RWJF’s The Intersection podcast, host Anton Gunn talks to Aija Nemer-Aanerud (People’s Action Institute) and Lindsey Muniak (Debt Collective)––two changemakers helpi...
UNEQUAL: The rise of a new American oligarchy and the agenda we need
UNEQUAL, released by Oxfam on November 3, provides a snapshot of U.S. economic inequality; examines the influence of concentrated wealth on politics; and assesses how policymakers’ choices on tax...
Food is Medicine is complementary with SNAP & WIC
A brief published on October 6, 2025, from the Medicaid Food Security Network focuses on how Medicaid-funded food and nutrition interventions, SNAP, and WIC work together to expand nutrition access. I...
The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2025
An estimated 8.2 percent of the global population, or about 673 million people, experienced hunger in 2024, down from 8.5 percent in 2023 and 8.7 percent in 2022, announced in The State of Food Securi...
Connecting Families to WIC: A Practical Toolkit for Healthcare Providers
A new FRAC toolkit, produced in partnership with Drs. Kofi Essel and Kimberly Montez, helps health care providers, medical professionals, and anyone who treats or engages with families learn about o...
The Dignity Dividend: Lessons Learned from Guaranteed Income Pilots in Massachusetts
A new report from Boston Indicators and Children’s HealthWatch, The Dignity Dividend: Lessons Learned from Guaranteed Income Pilots in Massachusetts, synthesizes the successes and challenges of...