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Food Connects Us: Community-Engaged Food Is Medicine Interventions

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Food Connects Us: Community-Engaged Food Is Medicine Interventions

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Join us on the heels of the Heart Health Month and in anticipation of National Nutrition Month's theme "Food Connects Us" for an engaging session on food is medicine approaches to cardiovascular health equity. Dr. Bunmi Ogungbe will discuss the evolving landscape of food is medicine interventions and their integration into healthcare systems, highlighting emerging evidence and implementation strategies. Through the lens of the American Heart Association-funded THRIVE program, participants will learn about innovative approaches to combining produce prescriptions, adaptive dietitian coaching, and community engagement to improve cardiovascular outcomes. The session will explore how human-centered design and cultural tailoring can enhance program implementation and sustainability.

Dr. Ogungbe will share insights from THRIVE's successful implementation, including strategies for community partnership development, participant engagement, and healthcare integration. The presentation will emphasize practical approaches to building sustainable food is medicine programs while addressing health equity considerations. This session will provide valuable insights for healthcare providers, dietitians, researchers, and program implementers interested in advancing food-based healthcare solutions. Participants will gain practical knowledge about implementing food is medicine programs and opportunities for collaboration.

Product Publish Details

Release Date: March 25, 2025

SKU: WEBCVWFCU0325

CPE Level: 2

CPEU: 1.00 (Valid Until February 26, 2028)

Learning Objectives

  • Describe the key components and evidence base for food-is-medicine interventions, discussing THRIVE pilot program implementation and outcomes as a case example.
  • Discuss strategies for integrating food-as-medicine approaches into healthcare delivery to promote health equity and address food insecurity.
  • Describe quality improvement principles to develop and implement sustainable food-is-medicine programs in various healthcare settings.

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Oluwabunmi "Bunmi" Ogungbe PhD, MPH, RN

Speaker

Dr. Ogungbe is an Assistant Professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing and Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She is Faculty at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Equity, and an Associate Faculty the Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology, and Clinical Research. Her research goals are to improve cardiometabolic outcomes among populations who are most impacted. Through her research, clinical trials and collaborations, Dr. Ogungbe 1) leads innovative digital and community-engaged interventions to improve hypertension control and advance cardiovascular health equity, 2) implements novel approaches to address underrepresentation in cardiovascular clinical trials, 3) leverages rich phenotypic epidemiologic datasets to assess multilevel determinants of cardiovascular health inequities, which informs practical, scalable and sustainable interventions. Dr. Ogungbe is the principal investigator of the American Heart Association-funded THRIVE project and leads other lifestyle and Food is Medicine for hypertension and cardiovascular-kidney-metabolic syndrome research programs.

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