06/18/2026
Branchfood had the opportunity to attend FIMCON in Washington, D.C., a new national conference bringing together leaders from healthcare, food, policy, research, philanthropy, and entrepreneurship around one big idea: food can be a powerful tool for improving health outcomes.
The convening was organized by the Food Is Medicine Coalition, the American Heart Association's Health Care by Food initiative, Harvard Law School's Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation, Tufts Food Is Medicine Institute, and the National Produce Prescription Collaborative. FIMCON reflects how quickly the Food is Medicine movement is gaining momentum across the country. The conference brought together 800+ stakeholders working to make nutrition a more integrated part of healthcare delivery and reimbursement.
What stood out wasn't whether Food is Medicine works. The conversation has moved beyond that.
The focus now is on implementation:
• How do we integrate nutrition into healthcare workflows?
• How do we measure outcomes?
• How do we build reimbursement models that scale?
• How do we create supply chains and partnerships that consistently deliver healthy food to the people who need it most?
The Food is Medicine movement has reached an important inflection point. Policymakers, healthcare providers, researchers, funders, and entrepreneurs are increasingly aligned around the potential of nutrition-based interventions to improve health while reducing healthcare costs.
The challenge ahead is building the infrastructure to make that vision real at scale.
At Branchfood, we see tremendous opportunity.
For more than a decade, we've worked at the intersection of food innovation, entrepreneurship, and industry collaboration. As Food is Medicine evolves from pilot programs to systems-level implementation, the companies building data platforms, supply chain solutions, nutrition technologies, care delivery models, and measurement tools will play a critical role in shaping the future of healthcare.
The future of Food is Medicine won't be built by any one sector alone. It will require collaboration across healthcare, food, technology, government, academia, and entrepreneurship and we're excited to be part of this.
