We look at the whole picture, the entire lived experience that influences health.
Our work examines health through many lenses that intersect, and it often helps people who are underserved or experiencing trauma — for example, veterans suffering from PTSD, children with serious illness, low-income residents grappling with systemic racism and neglect, and others.
This program works with healthcare professionals, medical students, patients with chronic disease, and community members to change the dietary patterns that lead to disease and poor health.
Our program focuses on experiential nutrition education through practical instruction and healthy cooking. Centered around our all-inclusive teaching kitchen, our multi-disciplinary team of medical educators, physicians, dieticians, researchers, and community health advocates to engage communities, educate future physicians, and equip patients with practical tools for healing.
As of May 2020, the program has hosted more than 250 first and second-year medical students with the most recent cohort participating in the program in February 2020. In January 2020, the Institute hosted the School of Pharmacy at the University of Maryland, Baltimore for the first inter-professional Culinary Health & Medicine Program course.
Research published in June 2021 about the groundbreaking Culinary Health and Medicine Program showed that it is possible and practical to teach medical students a more complete perspective on food and health that will immediately benefit themselves and their patients in myriad ways.
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Over the past thirty years, we’ve been part of a movement to shift the primary approach to health from one that focuses on disease to a more complete approach. We renamed the “Institute for Integrative Health” the Nova Institute for Health — of People, Places, and Planet because we are building on “person health” and looking at the context of peoples’ lives and communities as well as the health of the planet we all share.
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