Uniting Agriculture and Health Care to Support Food as Medicine for All

Dear Community,

We are just one week away from the 2026 Food as Medicine for All Livestream Conference! As we look forward to gathering with our global community, we are honored to share our final Speaker Spotlight, featuring our Closing Speaker, John Kim, JD, CEO of HealthierHere.

John will bring our conference to a close with his presentation: When is Food not Food?

When it’s Life, Health, Connection, and Inspiration to go Upstream

Drawing on the realities of food insecurity in King County, Washington, John will invite us to consider the broader connections between food, health, and well-being, and the questions that arise around the need for both downstream interventions and upstream solutions. His presentation encourages us to look beyond food as simply nourishment and explore its deeper connections to life, health, community, and the systems that shape our access to well-being.

Speaker Spotlight: John Kim, JD, CEO of HealthierHere

John Kim is the CEO of HealthierHere, a cross-sector Accountable Community of Health collaborative, which elevates community voice into system transformation to achieve health equity. He is also a Community Advisory Board member for the Health Promotion Research Center at University of Washington and a board member of the YMCA of Greater Seattle. John’s professional experience includes a diverse mix of settings from a national healthcare law practice to hospital senior management to social justice and equity focused community organizations. Mr. Kim graduated with a JD from New York University School of Law and a BA in Government from Dartmouth College.

As we conclude our two days together, this conversation will offer an opportunity to reflect on the connections between food, health, community, and the upstream solutions needed to advance equity.

Explore the full program here.

We are also happy to welcome some new sponsors to our community: the Academy of Integrative Health & Medicine (AIHM), Nutrishify, and the Naturopathic Academy of Primary Care Physicians (NAPCP). We are grateful for their support, along with that of all our sponsors, and their shared commitment to advancing food as medicine for all!

With Gratitude,

Your Food as Medicine Global Team

This activity is approved by the Board for Certification of Nutrition Specialists℠ (BCNS℠) to provide Continuing Education (CE) credits for Certified Nutrition Specialists® (CNS®) for a maximum of 10 CE Credits.

Additionally, to support a diverse global community, a Certificate of Attendance will be available to all attendees who participate in the live event. These certificates may be used to apply for continuing education credits through professional associations.

Please note that requirements for continuing education credits vary. We recommend consulting your professional association to determine whether the certificate meets their criteria.

Thank you Conference Sponsors!

North American Traditional Indigenous Food Systems

Physicians Association for Nutrition (PAN) International

D.C. Central Kitchen

Silicon Valley Natural Health

Coastal Roots Farm

The Institute for Functional Medicine

Food Systems Leadership Network

Soil Food Web Foundation

Nutrishify

Seeds of Wellness, Inc.

Teen Feed

XIN PAZ Outreach

Care Farming Network

Doctor Chris Latham DCN

Greener Partners

CCRM Fertility

Pearl Natural Health

Academy of Integrative Health & Medicine

Naturopathic Academy of Primary Care Physicians

Partner with us!

We invite mission-aligned organizations and businesses to join us in supporting a global, eco-friendly event that convenes a diverse community working at the intersection of food, health, community, social justice, and planetary well-being.

Our Why

The idea of food as medicine resonates with many in health care and food production. Nutrition is increasingly integrated into health professional training, patient care, and discussions around farming, fishing, ranching, and other food systems. However, people across many communities who want to eat well cannot access healthy or even enough food. Many of those producing and providing our food and health care navigate a multitude of inequities. 



Join us in supporting a more equitable and inclusive food as medicine movement!

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