The Aspen Institute, Food & Society: 2024 Food is Medicine Research Action Plan

Food & Society at the Aspen Institute has released its 2024 Food is Medicine Research Action Plan. This report builds on the 2022 version, outlining a roadmap for equity-centered research that can revolutionize how diet-related conditions are prevented, treated, and managed in the United States. It is the first report to pull together the latest peer-reviewed Food is Medicine research in a digestible, comprehensible, and action-oriented format.

The full report includes:

• Key considerations for Food is Medicine research
• An overview of the published, peer-reviewed foundational research on the health outcomes associated with food insecurity, as well as the health outcomes associated with key federal food support programs
• A discussion of the existing published, peer-reviewed research on Food is Medicine interventions, specifically medically tailored meals, medically tailored groceries, and produce prescriptions, now updated to include all published studies through December 1, 2023
• Concrete recommendations for future research, with respect to
  – Ensuring that research is conceived, designed, executed, implemented, and disseminated using an equity framework
  – Identifying key considerations for ensuring that research designs are robust and appropriate for yielding the most valuable and actionable information
  – Funding the most valuable research in the field
  – Identifying urgent questions that have yet to be explored