CV Well and NYSAND Joint Webinar:
Food Connects Us: Community-Engaged Food Is Medicine Interventions
Tuesday, March 25, 2025
Time: 12pm EST
Speaker: Oluwabunmi "Bunmi" Ogungbe, PhD, MPH, RN
Join us to explore the landscape of food-is-medicine approaches that bridge healthcare and nutrition through the lens of THRIVE (AdapTive personalized dietitian coacHing, messaging and pRoduce descrIption to improVE healthy dietary behaviors), a community-engaged intervention improving cardiovascular health outcomes. Learn how human-centered design and culturally tailored approaches can enhance program implementation and sustainability.
Speaker
Bunmi Ogungbe is Dr. Ogungbe is an Assistant Professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing and Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She is Faculty at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Equity, and an Associate Faculty the Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology, and Clinical Research. Her research goals are to improve cardiometabolic outcomes among populations who are most impacted. Through her research, clinical trials and collaborations, Dr. Ogungbe 1) leads innovative digital and community-engaged interventions to improve hypertension control and advance cardiovascular health equity, 2) implements novel approaches to address underrepresentation in cardiovascular clinical trials, 3) leverages rich phenotypic epidemiologic datasets to assess multilevel determinants of cardiovascular health inequities, which informs practical, scalable and sustainable interventions. Dr. Ogungbe is the principal investigator of the American Heart Association-funded THRIVE project and leads other lifestyle and Food is Medicine for hypertension and cardiovascular-kidney-metabolic syndrome research programs.
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