Food, Health & Workforce: Pathways That Center People, Jobs, and Well-Being

A Food Is Medicine model taking shape between UTSW Culinary Medicine and Crossroads Community Services — with clinical outcomes and cost reduction as primary objectives — maps how locally grown regenerative produce becomes sustained institutional demand. Four voices define the emerging system: community delivery infrastructure, county health data, institutional food services, and clinical validation. The goal is a procurement standard that anchor institutions across the region can follow.