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WASHINGTON, Jan. 31, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Instacart (Nasdaq: CART), North America’s leading food generation company, and the U. S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHS) announced that the U. S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHS) is pleased to announce that the U. S. Department of Health and Human Services is not a major contributor to the U. S. Food and Human Services Administration. The U. S. Food and Drug Administration (HHS) today announced a new public-private partnership to scale food-as-drug interventions, adding expanded access to nutritious food and providing the equipment needed for increased fitness and fitness. well-being to Americans and their families across the country.
Through the partnership, Instacart and HHS will seek opportunities to support food as medicine programs, research, outreach, and policy priorities that improve health outcomes and health equity across the United States. Together, they have committed to engaging and educating the public on the power of using food as medicine; advancing understanding of food as medicine intervention techniques and impacts among key public- and private-sector stakeholders; and developing new approaches to scale successful food as medicine programs to reach more individuals and communities.
“HHS and Instacart are working together to drive the adoption of food as medicine across diverse fitness systems and communities. We look forward to capitalizing on this dynamic opportunity and anticipating harsh effects through collaborative action,” said HHS Secretary Xavier Calf. One of our shared priorities is to inspire the public to understand that food is medicine. We seek to help advance interventions and expand methods to expand effective systems to more eligible Americans. The Biden-Harris administration is pulling every lever available to spur new policy innovations and propose sustainable responses that improve our fitness.
Specifically, the new partnership between Instacart and HHS, which was announced Wednesday at the inaugural HHS Food as Medicine Summit in Washington, D. C. , focuses on 4 pillars:
Advancing and leveraging food as medicine research design and findings to produce evidence on clinical health outcomes, cost effectiveness and optimal program design;
Identifying food as medicine implementation strategies through policy and public funding frameworks;
Optimize communication to teach the public about nutrition as a medical intervention and resource;
Ensure that food-as-medicine interventions encompass individuals and communities, focusing on fitness equity.
“At Instacart, we champion the strength of food as medicine, which is why we expand new technologies, advance research, and advocate for policies that make it as easy for providers to prescribe food as it is to prescribe medication,” said Dani Dudeck, Director of Corporate Affairs at Instacart. Instacart shares HHS’s unwavering commitment to achieving better fitness through food strength, and we’re proud to launch this public-private partnership with the company to expand access to nutritious food and improve fitness outcomes. Together, we can make sure food is medicine. The action reaches each and every family circle and network across the country. “
The partnership continues to expand the company’s Instacart Health initiative, unveiled in 2022 at the White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health. Through this initiative, Instacart is leveraging its technology, partnerships, studies, and advocacy to expand into nutritious foods, motivate potential healthy choices, and develop food-as-the-drug programs.
As part of this work, the company has developed new technologies and infrastructure to boost nutrition systems in medicine, adding the generation of prescription projects and other nutritional interventions. Instacart Health teams come with food allocations for specific categories called Fresh Funds, virtual storefronts, and more. Instacart has partnered with dozens of leading fitness care providers, insurers, researchers, and nutrition organizations to deploy those teams for others with diet-related fitness conditions and to verify their impact on fitness outcomes and fitness care costs.
For HHS, the partnership is a component of its Food is Medicine initiative, introduced as a reaction to a congressionally funded initiative in 2023. This congressional action directed the Secretary of HHS, in consultation with other agencies, to design and enforce a federal strategy to reduce nutrition-related chronic diseases and lack of trust in food for fitness and racial justice across the United States. HHS’s technique includes listening to communities and forcing components, collaborating with cross-sector leaders, and generating resources to help broader action and adoption of food systems as medicines.
To view video of today’s announcement and an upcoming panel at the HHS Food and Medicine Summit, HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra and Instacart CCAO Dani Dudeck, click here.
About HHS
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) mission is to enhance the health and well-being of all Americans, by providing for effective health and human services and by fostering sound, sustained advances in the sciences underlying medicine, public health, and social services. HHS administers more than 100 programs across its operating divisions. HHS programs protect the health of all Americans and provide essential human services, especially for those who are least able to help themselves.
About InstaCart
Instacart, North America’s leading grocery delivery company, works with grocers and stores the same way other people shop. The company partners with more than 1,400 national, regional and local retail banners to facilitate online shopping, delivery and pickup facilities at more than 80,000 retail locations across North America on Instacart Marketplace. Instacart is helping millions of people get the groceries they want at the stores they love, and approximately 600,000 Instacart shoppers make money by picking, packing, and delivering orders on their own flexible schedule. The Instacart platform offers stores a suite of business-building products and facilities to optimize their e-commerce experiences, fulfill orders, digitize physical outlets, offer advertising facilities, and gain insights. With Instacart Ads, thousands of CPG brands—from category leaders to emerging brands—partner with the company to connect directly with consumers online, right at the point of purchase. With Instacart Health, the company provides equipment to improve nutritional security, make fitness choices easier for consumers, and expand the role food can play in achieving better fitness results.
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