FIMC Research

Ceres is a member of The Food is Medicine Coalition (FIMC), a national coalition of thirteen medically tailored meal providers.  FIMC agencies have completed 5 peer reviewed, published research studies, and 24 research studies are currently in progress demonstrating the impact of food and nutrition services on health and cost outcomes.   

FIMC has also developed a research action plan, which succinctly summarizes their research to date, and puts forward 26 recommendations to guide the next decade of equity-centered research.  This was delivered to the Biden Administration during the historic 2022 White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition and Health.  

Researchers at the Tufts Friedman School of Nutrition have also completed and published a cost modeling study demonstrating significant healthcare cost savings of fully scaling the medically tailored meal model on a national level.