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Our Why
The idea of food as medicine makes sense to many of us working in healthcare and food production. More and more, nutrition is centered in health professional training, patient care, and conversations around farming, fishing, ranching, and other foodways. However, people across many communities who want to eat well can’t access healthy or even enough food—many of those producing our food or providing our health care navigate a multitude of inequities.
Join us in creating an equitable and inclusive food as medicine movement.
Our VisionA collaborative global community of farmers, seed savers, fishers, foragers, ranchers, subsistence hunters, healers, healthcare providers, hospitals, clinics, educators, schools, academic centers, students, wild-crafters, cooks, consumers, pastoralists, forest producers, and more who are united in a vision of food sovereignty and health justice for all. Our Mission To facilitate educational conversations and collaborative engagement for unifying agriculture and medicine to support food sovereignty and health justice for all. Agriculture broadly defined for a diversity of food ways to include farmers, seed savers, foragers, fishers, subsistence hunters, ranchers, wild-crafters, pastoralists, forest producers, and more. Medicine broadly defined for a diversity of health ways to include all those engaged in health and healing practices.
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Logo Design by CASSANDRA LEE HOUSTON
Board Members
Circle of Advisors
Author, Activist-in-Residence, University of Guelph |
April Moreno Arellano, PhD, MPA, MA, Founder of Autoimmune Community Institute |
Joseph Bogaard Executive Director Save Our wild Salmon |
Gabriel Allahdua
Founder and CEO Health of the Soil International |
Sofia M. Chavez, DNM, Minister, LMT, CCA, COTA, NADA, Founder of Estara Health & Wellness |
Whole Health |
Francis Bosah
John S. Finnell ND, PhD(C), MPH, DiplOM, Program Manager,
Emma Gardner Student Ambassador |
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Amy Goldstein, M.S.W. Director, Alliance to Advance Comprehensive Integrative Pain Management (AACIPM) |
Ricardo Ghelman, MD, Ph.D., Founding Chair, Brazilian Academic Consortium for Integrative Health (CABSIN)
Jamie Harvie, PEng, Executive Director Psychedelic Research and Training Institute (PRATI) |
Nadine Ijaz, PhD Assistant Professor, Carleton University |
Cheryl Martin, MD, MA Attending Physician Family Medicine, BronxCare |
Sheila Mary, ND, MPH, Student Midwife Founder of 5 Elements Health Alliance |
Melina Meza, BSN 500-Hour RYT, Ayurvedic Health Educator, Author |
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Afshan Omar, HBSc, Environmental Science Permaculture Designer
Beth Romanski Integrative Health & Wellness Coach, Health Educator | .png) Beth Rosenthal, PhD, MBA, MPH Co-Founder, Food as Medicine Global |
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Kathleen Scheible, CCH Certified Board Classical Homeopath Midwestern Small Family Farm Kid, Current Urban Farmer |
Executive Director, Duke Health and Well-Being |
Malik Tiedt BSPH Nutrition Science, BA Medical Anthropology |
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Scarlet Soriano, MD, ABOIM
Julie Tran-Olive, ND, LAc Founder of Silicon Valley Natural Health |
Co-Founders
Co-Founders Beth Rosenthal and Heather Carrie bring years of experience as leaders within health promoting organizations with a demonstrated commitment to collaborative engagement. Beth is experienced in leading working groups and roundtable discussions and Heather is experienced as an executive director, health policy advocate, educator, farmer, and farmer’s market manager.