Food for Thought: The Path to Food Security in Newark

In an inspiring collaboration between a health system and the community it serves, Healthcare Anchor Network member RWJBarnabas Health recently released a full-length documentary on food insecurity and transformative solutions. The film was created by Newark students who were supported in their research and filmmaking by the health system. According to RWJBarnabas Executive Vice President and Chief Corporate Affairs Officer Michellene Davis: “We want to stop acting like the studies that reveal [the connections between food access and health] are just sort of isolated and sit on shelves or in medical journals, and then we go about the business of just delivering clinical care in a clinical care setting. We get (that) we will not have a healthier community if we do not, in fact, have easy, affordable access to nutritious food.”