American Heart Association Health Care by Food™
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American Heart Association announces planning grant RFP through Health Care by Food™
The Association a Request for Proposals (RFP) for a planning grant opportunity through its Health Care by Food initiative designed to provide support for the development of a detailed trial protocol and grant focused on developing and testing ways in which food is medicine (FIM) interventions are efficacious for improved health outcomes.
Foundational Support
The AHA’s Health Care by Food™ Initiative is supported by anchor funding from The Rockefeller Foundation and contributions from inaugural collaborator Kroger, with additional support from Builders Initiative; Elevance Health; Instacart; Kaiser Permanente; Lyda Hill Philanthropies; United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey; and the Walmart Foundation.
The Health Care by Food initiative was first announced as the Food Is Medicine Initiative at the September 2022 White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition and Health by the American Heart Association and The Rockefeller Foundation.
Foundational Research
The initiative’s research efforts were announced in January 2024, with funds awarded to foundational research projects across the country led by experts in the food and nutrition, behavioral science, epidemiology and cardiovascular research fields.
These research projects focus on feasibility and implementation science in pilot testing different ways of increasing enrollment and engagement in food is medicine interventions and examining ways to accomplish significant short-term changes in healthy eating behavior. Developing ways to increase engagement now, and incorporating those insights in subsequent tests of efficacy, will facilitate the testing of more potent interventions.
