Our Work
The research that makes food is medicine real.
Clinical trials, implementation tools, and programs across our six focus areas. Every project connects to the people, publications, and evidence behind it.
Medically Tailored Meal (MTM) Interventions
The most-studied food is medicine intervention — measuring how medically tailored meals affect obesity, health outcomes, and healthcare utilization under Medicaid flexible services.
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Healthy Baby, Healthy Mom Produce Rx Trial
A produce prescription intervention among pregnant women — testing whether prescribing fruits and vegetables improves maternal and birth outcomes.
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The Tufts Food Compass
A novel nutrient profiling system for science-based assessment of the overall healthfulness of foods — one of the most comprehensive systems developed to date.
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Building the national roadmap for integrating food is medicine into healthcare policy, payment, and practice across the United States.
Read the projectWholesome Wave Produce Prescription Program
Evaluating one of the country's longest-running produce prescription programs to understand real-world impact at community scale.
Read the projectGlobal Dietary Database
The most comprehensive global resource on what the world eats — dietary intake data across 185 countries used by researchers and policymakers worldwide.
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A large healthcare-system partnership testing medically tailored meals within an integrated payer-provider model.
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Validating a major grocery retailer's nutrition-rating tool against Food Compass to strengthen the science behind consumer-facing food scores.
Read the projectFood is Medicine Implementation Toolkit
A practical, open toolkit that helps clinicians and health systems stand up food is medicine programs — from screening to referral to measurement.
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Embedding food is medicine screening and referral directly into electronic health record workflows so nutrition care happens at the point of care.
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A cross-sector research consortium accelerating the evidence and adoption of food is medicine through shared data and coordinated trials.
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A clinical program pairing medically tailored nutrition with care coordination for patients managing serious, diet-sensitive illness.
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