Food is Medicine: A Community Health & Wellness Intervention  

This project is a multi-organizational, multi-sector, academic-community collaborative between Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, Rutgers School of Public Health, Rutgers School of Health Professions, the Greater Newark Conservancy, Urban Agriculture Cooperative, and Ethos Farm to Health.

This collaboration invites community members to learn alongside students, researchers, and professionals in urban agriculture, nutrition education, culinary education, and physical fitness to pilot the delivery of a community-based lifestyle medicine program. In a randomized-control trial, this project tests the hypothesis that a lifestyle program that combines 'Food as Medicine’ principles with physical activity will improve clinical outcomes of individuals in Newark, who are living with a lifestyle-related non-communicable disease compared to a food-only treatment cohort and usual care.