Policy Evaluation Task Force
The Policy Evaluation Task Force is charged with strategic assessment of the landscape of food is medicine pilot and demonstration projects in state Medicaid programs, including the evaluation of Medicaid 1115 waivers. A goal of this task force is to use this information to identify unanswered questions and use these insights to inform the initiative’s subsequent food is medicine research.
Jill Birnbaum
Amanda Cassel Kraft
Paul Chase
Katie Garfield
Common Measures for AHA Health Care by Food Funded Studies
Central to the American Heart Association's Health Care by Food initiative is the integration of evidence-based practices and measurable outcomes. To track progress and impact, the initiative developed a set of Common Measures, a standardized set of metrics designed to facilitate the comparison of data across food is medicine research.
Shared metrics are vital for pooling data across studies, to produce more generalizable insights and to allow for more comparability between studies, moving us toward a better understanding of the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of interventions.
To improve fidelity for merging data sets and facilitating use of the common measures, an accompanying code book (XLSX file) was designed and is available for use.