
Pilot Awardee Saria Lofton’s Food Is Medicine project featured on NBC Chicago
On August 30, NBC Chicago featured Pilot Awardee Saria Lofton’s Food Is Medicine project — watch here
On August 30, NBC Chicago featured Pilot Awardee Saria Lofton’s Food Is Medicine project — watch here
I see community health workers as a vital link between the health system and local communities. This C3EN minigrant has given me the opportunity to explore these factors more deeply and consider how CHW’s can promote use of government benefits and educate local people about how to use these benefits to best support their health.
C3EN Pilot Awardee Saria Lofton and public health consultant Barbara (Lucy) Peterson advocate for the expansion of food-is-medicine programs through Medicaid in “Food-is-medicine programs can improve health, reduce food insecurity,” in the Chicago Sun-Times on June 23, 2023.
I’m interested in how we can communicate with families both inside and outside the clinic about the issue of cardiometabolic risk in a way that promotes healthy behavior change without centering weight and reinforcing weight stigma.