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Future of Health Summit 2024

Part 2: Food as Engagement: Implications for Health and Access to Care

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Food is increasingly being recognized as essential to preventing, managing, and treating chronic diseases. Approximately half of all US adults have at least one preventable diet-related condition, accounting for 85 percent of health-care spending. Leaders across the health, food retail, and health-care industries are mobilizing effective ways to use food to engage individuals in other health-care services that can improve health outcomes. This session will highlight innovative strategies that leverage food in the health-care journey, from emerging opportunities for Food is Medicine care in Medicare and Medicaid, to identifying the role of employers in championing food as health for their employees, to using food as a touchpoint to address health disparities and social determinants of health more broadly. 

    Moderator

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    Holly Freishtat

    Senior Director, Feeding Change, Milken Institute Health

    Speakers

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    Steve Brazeel

    Founder and CEO, SunTerra Produce
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    Jim Kirby

    Chief Commercial Officer, Kroger Health
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    Pam Schwartz

    Executive Director, Community Health, Kaiser Permanente
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    Angela F. Williams

    President and CEO, United Way Worldwide