Research Planning Group
The work of the Research Planning Group is instrumental in structuring the overall research strategy with a focus on generating the evidence necessary for demonstrating the effectiveness and cost effectiveness of food is medicine interventions. This group oversees the work of the individual task forces that have been constituted in support of this initiative.
Adrian Hernandez
Andrea Troxel
Cheryl Anderson
Donald Lloyd-Jones
Eric Peterson
Hilary Seligman
Jen Muse
Kevin Volpp
Kristen Underhill
Mark McClellan
Mitchell Elkind
Nathalie Moise
Robert Harrington
Seth Berkowitz
Shelby Reed
Shreela Sharma
Stacey Chang
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.