Food is Medicine services are not a "nice to have," but essential components of healthcare. Our new podcast, Essential: A Food is Medicine Podcast, explains why.

This four-part first season features voices from across healthcare, nutrition, policy, research and community organizations who are helping redefine how we think about food, chronic illness and care.

Listen to the teaser episode and subscribe for upcoming conversations.

Voices featured in this trailer:

Alissa Wassung, Executive Director, Food is Medicine Coalition

Kurt Hager, PhD, MS, Assistant Professor, Population & Quantitative Health Sciences, UMass Chan Medical School

Laura Samnadda MS, RDN, LD, Director of Nutrition Services, Open Hand Atlanta

Ammy Villafane, Client of Open Hand Atlanta

The Food is Medicine Coalition (FIMC) is the national coalition of nonprofit organizations that provide medically tailored meals (MTMs) and groceries (MTGs), medical nutrition therapy and nutrition counseling and education to people in communities across the country living with severe, complex and chronic conditions. We advance access to these life-saving interventions through policy change, research and evaluation, and best practices. FIMC agencies created the MTM intervention forty years ago as a response to community need during the HIV epidemic. FIMC offers a community of learning for existing practitioners, equips new organizations to launch medically tailored meal programs, and accredits agencies against our fieldwide standards. FIMC agencies created the medically tailored meal (MTM) intervention forty years ago as a response to community need during the HIV epidemic.