A Note from the Executive Director | | | |
Greetings,
Please join us in Boston for our 2026 Fall Summit, Blueprints for Change: From Innovation to Resilience, on Monday and Tuesday, November 16 and 17. Together we'll explore examples of creativity, success, and resilience in food, nutrition, and health equity from around the country.
We'll also recognize the 14 winners of the 2026 Food Justice for Kids Prize, innovators who are working in school food and nutrition education, policy, and Indigenous food justice. You'll have a chance to learn more about their work at our Monday evening reception and poster session and again during our Tuesday lunchtime problem-solving sessions.
Registration is now open, and additional event details are below.
I hope to see you in November.
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Nicolene Hengen
Executive Director
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Join the Conversation
Monday and Tuesday, November 16-17, 2026 | Boston, MA
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Blueprints for Change: From Innovation to Resilience
Featuring sessions on:
- Poverty, Policy, and Our Collective Health
- Navigating a New Policy Landscape
- State Innovations in Managing Food Security
- Diverse Funding Models in Food and Nutrition Innovation
- Victories in School Food Policy
- Businesses as Change Agents
- Blueprints for Resiliency: Looking to the Future
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Sarah Bleich
Professor of Public Health Policy
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
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Mike Curtin
CEO
DC Central Kitchen
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Marc DeCourcey
Senior Vice President
U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation
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Mark Dinglasan
Executive Director
NJ Office of the Food Security Advocate
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Elizabeth Fassberg
Executive Director, New York
Life Science Cares
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Max Finberg
Vice President, Government Affairs
Chobani
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Crystal FitzSimons
President
Food Research & Action Center
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Dr. Thea James
Vice President of Mission; Associate Chief Medical Officer
Boston Medical Center
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Kolia Souza
Project Director, Odoms-Young Nutrition Liberation, Food Sovereignty, and Justice Lab
Cornell University
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Katie Stebbins
Executive Director
Food & Nutrition Innovation Institute at Tufts University
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Julianne Stelmaszyk
Director, Division of Food Security
Massachusetts Department of Agricultural Resources
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Andrew Whitehead
Vice President, Head of Population Health
Bristol Myers Squibb
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Download the H2HC 2025 Fall Summit Report
Advancing Health Equity Through Innovation and Partnerships: Learnings from the H2HC 2025 Fall Summit captures insights, strategies, and real-world examples from the convening. It highlights how cross-sector partnerships, community-driven solutions, and bold policy innovation are reshaping what is possible in food, nutrition, and health equity.
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A Human-Centered Design Workshop Toolkit for
Food Systems Practitioners
A new toolkit from the Global Food Institute at George Washington University and Swipe Out Hunger offers a practical approach for putting people with lived experience at the center of food-system problem-solving. Designing With, Not For uses human-centered design to help practitioners move from identifying unmet needs to generating, prioritizing and developing solutions alongside the people most affected.
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Medicaid Food Security Policy Dashboard
The Medicaid Food Security Network reviewed Medicaid 1115 waivers, managed care contracts, and other policy documents to identify strategies being used across the country to address food insecurity among children and families. The results are available in a searchable Medicaid Food Security Policy Dashboard with state-level examples.
Users can explore approaches such as food insecurity screening and referral, assistance, and navigation; data and evaluation; food security investments and benefits; and integration of SNAP, WIC, and Medicaid. Examples include Medicaid managed care requirements, community health worker and navigator models, and nutrition supports such as medically tailored meals, produce prescriptions, and groceries.
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Intermediaries as Partners in Community Transformation
A new report from the BUILD Health Challenge explores the role that intermediary organizations can play in helping communities drive lasting, place-based change. Drawing on a decade of field experience, the report examines how organizations that work between grassroots communities and larger governmental, philanthropic, corporate, and civic systems can help create the conditions for communities to thrive.
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EQTY 2026: Forward by Design
October 19 - 20, 2026 | Boston, MA
EQTY, Boston Medical Center Health System’s annual racial health equity conference, brings together researchers, clinicians, policymakers, community leaders, and advocates for two days of collaboration, innovation, and action. Through thought-provoking conversations and leading speakers, the conference explores pressing issues in racial health equity, from maternal health and clinical trials to disability, institutional trust, and the geography of health.
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H2HC Directory of Innovation
H2HC is continuing to build its national Directory of Innovation to highlight and share innovative work addressing food and nutrition challenges around the U.S. To submit your organization's work for possible inclusion, please share a few details with us through the link below.
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ABOUT H2HC
The Hunger to Health Collaboratory (H2HC) convenes cross-sector thought leaders to explore systemic solutions to food and nutrition challenges with a focus on health equity and the social drivers of health. Since 2018, H2HC has supported work that addresses food and nutrition challenges through community-driven solutions, policy innovation, and cross-sector partnerships.
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