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.
Our transdisciplinary community of Scholars and Fellows investigates critical questions, elevates evidence-based practices, and discovers cutting-edge solutions. These incredible thought leaders come from diverse fields—such as medicine, photobiology, atmospheric chemistry, epidemiology, and psychology—and their work examines the full spectrum of health, healing, and flourishing through many lenses. Here we share some highlights of their work.
Nova Founder Brian Berman, Scholar Susan Prescott, and others argue, in a new article, that mindfulness deserves greater attention in the context of planetary health.
Scholar Chris D’Adamo’s groundbreaking, first-ever core culinary medicine curriculum for first- and second-year medical students is published.
Scholars Rebecca Etz and Kurt Stange co-authored an article that advocates for three simple rules for equitable, quality, and sustainable generalist and specialist care.
Scholar Sara Warber co-authored a handbook which is a great provider-oriented resource for social prescribing nature-based interventions.
Fellows Carley Riley and Brita Roy recently published a new paper, which used the largest dataset in the U.S. to examine levels of thriving, struggling, and suffering at the county level, identifying trends and places of possible intervention for increased individual wellbeing.
Scholar Steven Woolf’s recent work highlights historical racial and socioeconomic disparities disproportionately impacted minorities during the COVID-19 pandemic, resulting in the largest decrease in life expectancy in Black and Hispanic Americans since 1998.
Fellow Carley Riley co-authored a new paper offering guidance and actionable practices to prioritize equity in learning health systems.
Scholar Judy Rollins new book incorporates data from an international study of artwork in hospitals and explores how art serves the diverse needs of patients, families, visitors, and staff in hospital settings.
Scholars Rebecca Etz and Kurt Stange helped create and guide an evidence-based plan for implementing high-quality, comprehensive, and equitable primary care in the US.
An exploration of post-traumatic growth provides hope for healing on all scales in Institute Scholar Susan Prescott’s co-authored paper.
Institute Fellow Carley Riley explores the health implications of social isolation and “social inequity.”
Scholar Susan Prescott co-authors an article highlighting an urgent need to remediate misinformation to address the various interrelated social and environmental challenges of our time.
Scholar Fred Foote publishes qualitative research findings about the Green Road at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center.
Institute Scholar Sara Warber co-authors an article, which offers “invitations to action, both personal and collective, for cultivating reciprocal healing and a future that is more directly sustainable for all, human and more-than-human.”
inVIVO Planetary Health and the Institute publish a paper in Challenges.
The addition of spices and herbs to vegetables in the National School Lunch Program increased vegetable intake at an urban, economically-undeserved, and predominantly African-American high school.
Scholar Judy Rollins, PhD, RN, co-authors a paper detailing project for empathetic art.
Visiting Visionary Dr. Rebecca Etz and What is the State of Primary Care During COVID-19?
Paper Co-Authored by Visiting Visionary, Rebecca Etz, PhD, Discussing the 1966 Report.
Institute Nature Sacred Fellow, Denise Shanté Brown, MA, publishes, Check-ins for Connection & Care: A Growing, Collaborative List of Questions and Prompts to Help Hold Space.
Institute Scholar, Claudia Witt, MD, MBA, Co-Authors Overview of CAM for the Treatment of COVID-19.
The Institute helps UM School of Medicine Introduce a new Requirement: Culinary Medicine Learn more
Institute Mission Thrive Summer program featured in PM Magazine by Morgan State University.
A new study supported by the Institute for Integrative Health sheds light on the complex progression from illness to healing, which the authors call the “healing journey.”
The Institute convened a workshop in July 2011, to jump-start the creation of an effectiveness guidance document (EGD), a set of guidelines that will steer the design of comparative effectiveness studies of acupuncture.
As follow-up to the Symposium on the Evidentiary Framework for Complementary and Integrative Medicine, the Institute hosted a three-week virtual forum to continue the dialogue about using comparative effectiveness research (CER) to generate more useful evidence for integrative medicine.
In October 2007, the Institute partnered with the National Institutes of Health, National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, and the Georgetown University School of Medicine to present a conference on complex systems and CAM research.
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