Field Based Infrastructure Task Force

The Field-Based Infrastructure Task Force is charged with outlining essential elements to deliver food is medicine interventions within health care systems, with a goal of providing recommendations on tools in testing and implementing these programs.

Brian Levine

Brian Levine

Christopher Long

Christopher Long, PhD

Colleen Rauchut Tewksbury

Colleen Rauchut Tewksbury

Colleen Spees

Colleen Spees, PhD, MEd, RDN, LD, FAHA

Eric Peterson

Eric Peterson

Erin Ferranti

Erin Ferranti

Erika Hanson

Erika Hanson Headshot

Hailey Miller

Hailey Miller Headshot

Jen Muse

Jen Muse

Juliana Crawford

Juliana Crawford

Kathleen Allen

Kathleen Allen Headshot

Naomi Tice

Naomi Tice

Kelseanna Hollis-Hansen

Kelseanna Headshot

Reshma Gupta

Reshma Gupta, MD, MSHPM

Ronit Ridberg

Ronit Ridberg, PhD, MS

Ronli Levi

RLevi bio pic

Shreela Sharma

Shreela Sharma

Tiffany Wesley Ardoin

Tiffany Wesley Ardoin Headshot

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.

Common Measures for AHA Health Care by Food Funded Studies