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Anna Lin-Schweitzer

Associate Director, Feeding Change, Milken Institute Health
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Anna Lin-Schweitzer is an associate director with Feeding Change at the Milken Institute. She leads the portfolio's Food Is Medicine (FIM) research, which addresses critical gaps in the FIM ecosystem by advancing policies and actionable solutions to integrate nutrition into health care. She also coordinates Feeding Change's Food Is Medicine Task Force, fostering collaboration across private sector stakeholders.

Prior to joining the Milken Institute, Lin-Schweitzer's work spanned food security, urban agriculture, food policy, and environmental advocacy.She has led communications for an urban farm addressing food insecurity and a statewide environmental advocacy organization, conducted program evaluation and implementation to improve nutrition quality in food pantries, and contributed to municipal food policy efforts to expand resources for urban agriculture and small food businesses. She has coauthored a number of papers published in peer-reviewed journals on topics ranging from coalition building to food assistance programs to environmental education.

Lin-Schweitzer holds a master of public health from Yale University and a BA in English literature from Washington University in St. Louis.

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