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Food is Medicine toolkit


Food is Medicine Institute

Empowering health care with Food is Medicine solutions. 

A guide for clinicians, health system leaders, and communities to design, implement, and sustain Food is Medicine programs.

The Food is Medicine Toolkit provides actionable strategies, evidence-based program design options, and practical implementation resources to help care teams deliver Food is Medicine programs and supportive education, tailored to patient population, organizational capacity, and reimbursement landscape.

Whether you’re exploring your first pilot program or scaling an existing initiative, this toolkit offers the roadmap to make Food is Medicine a sustainable part of comprehensive care.

This first version of the toolkit focuses on the implementation of FIM for people with type 2 diabetes, with more clinical applications to follow.

Food is Medicine Institute. Food is Medicine toolkit. 2026. Available online. 

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Social Determinant of Health
Food/Hunger