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Nourish works throughout the country to make better food the cornerstone of a more sustainable, equitable, and preventive health care system. https://nourishleadership.ca/
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Join Cascades and Nourish ED Jen Reynolds for this session to explore community-led initiatives aimed at improving patients’ food security by increasing access to fresh and nutritious food, while strengthening local food systems. #NourishLeadership

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Food and health Spotlight: Mobilizing health systems to improve patient food security This session will explore community-led initiatives aimed at improving patients’ food security by increasing access to fresh and nutritious food, while strengthening local food systems. 🗓️ Date: Tuesday, December 2 ⏰ Time: 12 p.m. – 1 p.m. Eastern 🖥️ Delivery: Zoom Speakers: Jennifer Reynolds – Executive Director, Nourish / Nourrir Lizzie Slattery – General Co-Director Carrefour Solidaire Community Food Centre, Community Food Center Registration is free and open on a rolling basis. Participants may join at any point in the cycle and attend any number of sessions.
December 2, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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Join CASCADES' session on unsuccessful reusable initiatives in #healthcare settings - the innovator's cycle of doing, learning, & iterating! Hear from Nourish Third Cohort Team Lead Elaine Chu & more. 🌎

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#PlanetaryHealth #ClimateAction #FailForward #ReusablesFirst
Lessons learned from unsuccessful projects There is growing interest across Canadian health care in adopting reusable products and devices to advance environmental sustainability. Transitioning from single-use disposables to reusable alternatives offers multiple co-benefits, but it often requires operational, financial, and cultural changes that can be challenging to navigate. On December 3, join us for a conversation with operational leaders as we discuss lessons learned from reusable initiatives that did not progress, across different sites and care settings. This session is part of the Reusables First webinar series, presented in partnership with the Collaborative Centre for Climate, Health & Sustainable Care Centre for Climate, Health and Sustainable Care. 📅 December 3, 2025 🕐 9–10 a.m. PT | 12–1 p.m. ET | 1–2 p.m. AT 💻 Online via Zoom
December 1, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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This time of year, we’re reminded of the power of food to heal, connect, and transform lives. When you support Nourish this #GivingTuesday you make healing, comfort, and care the main ingredients on health care menus.

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Thank you for supporting this vital work. 💚
December 1, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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Lessons for transforming hospital food from our friends at PAN International - Physicians Association for Nutrition. Registration is free for this upcoming webinar. Check it out!

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#HospitalFood #PlanetaryHealth #DeliciousClimateAction #Healthcare
3 December 2025, 5-6pm CET with Carolina Mesquita, Isabelle Sadler, and Dr. Alexander Bauer
November 28, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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Congratulations ✨ Laura Salmon ✨ winner of the 2025 Margaret Edgars Reconciliation Award - Individual at #NourishSymposium2025. This award honours those advancing Indigenous foodways in community & health care, honouring the importance of putting the love in food. 🍓💜

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Laura has led the field and practice of making traditional foods accessible to patients in health care for 25 years. She has mentored so many in dietetics, in thoughtful governance, and in meaningful settler-Indigenous collaborations. Laura has shared her wisdom as a Nourish board member, a member of the Nourish Indigenous & Allies Advisory, and as one of the co-authors of the Food is Our Medicine learning journey, all while maintaining her role as Director of First Nations Health Programs at the Yukon Hospitals Corporation, ensuring self-identifying Indigenous patients have access to the cultural dimensions of care to support their well-being. Laura’s work exemplifies the spirit of Margaret Edgars: honouring knowledge, culture, and the land, while strengthening relationships that lead to real, lasting change.
November 27, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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Congratulations ✨ @novascotiahealth.bsky.social Nutrition & Food Services Team ✨ 2025 Nourish Anchor Leadership Award winner - Org/Team at #NourishSymposium2025. This award recognizes bold leadership that harnesses the power of food to create resilient, equitable, & community-rooted health systems.
The Nova Scotia Health Authority’s Nutrition and Food Services Team exemplifies leadership in advancing a culture of nutrition across Nova Scotia - one that fosters healing, supports recovery, and strengthens the province’s local food system. Through evidence-based strategies, they have significantly improved patient outcomes, most notably through the implementation of the Enhanced Room Service model in 13 hospitals since 2018. This initiative empowers patients with greater choice regarding when and what they eat, enhancing both satisfaction and nutritional intake. Beyond addressing hospital-based malnutrition and achieving patient feeding goals, the team has demonstrated exceptional commitment to sustainable and localized food procurement. Their leadership is bold, strategic, and deeply grounded in leveraging public dollars to create a stronger local food economy, reducing waste to support planetary health and improve patient care. Three people standing in front of a large painting.
November 25, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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Join @arrellfoodinst.bsky.social on Nov. 26 for the Canadian Climate Week Xchange event: “Food: The Other Big Climate Lever” where experts from climate & agri-food share insights, opportunities, & challenges in rethinking food systems for a sustainable world. 🌎

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Upcoming Event for Canadian Climate Week Exchange. Food: The Other Big Climate Lever. A drawn image of the earth with different types of food, surrounded by a computer, factory, truck, and footprints.
November 20, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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Congratulations ✨ @vchhealthcare.bsky.social Planetary Health Menu Project Team ✨ 2025 Planetary Plate Award winner - Org/Team at #NourishSymposium2025. This award recognizes those advancing the health of people and planet through thoughtful, systemic leadership in organizational food practices. 🎉
Vancouver Coastal Health’s Planetary Health Menu Project Team is redefining hospital food as a force for healing, cultural connection, and climate action. Led by Dr. Annie Lalande and Tiffany Chiang, the team unites chefs including Ned Bell, clinicians, dietitians, and planetary health experts to build a more sustainable, patient-centred food system. The Planetary Health Menu Project demonstrates that sustainable food systems can elevate patient care, empower staff, and support the planet. With its blend of innovation, cultural relevance, and system-wide leadership, this initiative sets a national benchmark for climate-smart, compassionate health care. Please join us in congratulating this team! 🎉 An image of team members standing in a group and smiling in front of a colourful abstract painting.
November 20, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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Join Nourish Director of Planetary Health @amyjoyford.bsky.social next week on reducing single-use plastic in food services, hosted by @ccghc.bsky.social. Check out all the great sessions during Circular Clinical Care Plastics Reduction Week. #NourishLeadership

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An image of fruit with accompanying foreground text: November 25, 2025 at 12pm ET. Reducing Single-Use Plastics in Food-Related Services. Headshot photos of three speakers: Sandra Alexander (Project Manager, CCGHC), Amy Ford (Director, Planetary Health, Nourish), and Liza Zvereva (Project and Research Coordinator, Hamilton Family Health Team).
November 19, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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Congratulations ✨ Michelle Stranges ✨ winner of the 2025 Nourish Anchor Leadership Award - Individual, awarded at #NourishSymposium2025. This award recognizes bold leadership that harnesses the power of food to create resilient, equitable, & community-rooted health systems. 🍎 #NourishLeadership
Michelle is a bold, visionary leader transforming how food is understood and used within healthcare. At St. Joseph's Health Care London, she has redefined food as a catalyst for healing, sustainability, and community connection. Through her leadership with the Nourish cohort, Michelle has advanced health equity, sustainability, and local food systems. Her work embodies courage, creativity, and compassion, turning a small innovation grant into a flourishing model for sustainable, equitable, and community-rooted healthcare food systems.
November 18, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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Part of our Third Anchor Cohort, Nourish is proud to support #culinarymedicine Collaborative Project Team members' learning & knowledge mobilization by participation in the 2025 Teaching Kitchen Collaborative Symposium. We look forward to sharing learnings they bring home! 👩‍🍳 🍏 #NourishLeadership
Teaching Kitchen Symposium Session: Teaching Kitchens Around the World: Practical Lessons from Global Models. Join global leaders as they share how teaching kitchens are advancing health worldwide, with case studies from Israel, Brazil, and Canada highlighting resilience, education, and public health impact. December 11, 2025 - Scotts Valley, California.
November 18, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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Congratulations ✨ Northern Health - BC ✨ winner of the 2025 Margaret Edgars Reconciliation Award - Organization/Team at #NourishSymposium2025. This award honours those advancing Indigenous foodways in community & health care, honouring the importance of putting the love in food. 🍓💜 #NorthernHealth
Northern Health exemplifies commitment to settler-Indigenous collaboration on traditional foods. Shelly Crack, Tessie Harris RD, Jenny Cross, and Margaret Edgars herself joined the first Nourish cohort back in 2017, deeply committed to expanding access to traditional food for community members on Haida Gwaii. The team honours Haida wisdom and culture by holding it as the central guiding force of their efforts, which include navigating colonial mindsets and policies around food safety, to ensure elders and patients had access to salmon, oolican, berries and the culture that supports their healing while they are in care. For their deep commitment to doing work around valuing Indigenous knowledge and carrying out Margaret’s vision of food as love and food as medicine, we recognize the remarkable team at Northern Health.
November 14, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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Congratulations ✨ Annie Marquez ✨ winner of the 2025 Nourish Planetary Plate Award - Individual, awarded at #NourishSymposium2025. This award recognizes those advancing the health of people and planet through thoughtful, systemic leadership in organizational food practices. Félicitations Annie! 🎉
A green background with a headshot photo of Annie and the following white text: Annie has made a tremendous impact by spearheading low-carbon menus, integrating sustainability goals into procurement, and building partnerships with community food organizations and diverse stakeholders. As part of the first Nourish Innovator cohort, Annie led the development of the Sustainable Menu Guide, a comprehensive, step-by-step resource designed to help food service directors navigate the complexities of six key dimensions of sustainability. In the second Nourish cohort, Annie expanded her impact by forging innovative partnerships to create Hôpital Solidaire - an initiative dedicated to providing free healthy meals for patients in hospital cafeterias and vouchers for fresh produce markets to improve food security and strengthen sustainable local food systems. Most recently, Annie has led a pioneering collaboration with La Transformerie, focusing on minimizing waste throughout the entire food journey, from field to tray to compost. Her visionary leadership continues to demonstrate how health care can serve as a catalyst for environmental stewardship, social responsibility, and planetary health.
November 12, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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Today is the last day to register for the 2025-26 Food is Our Medicine animated learning journey, beginning this week! #FoodisOurMedicine showcases the importance of #IndigenousFoodways in #healthcare for Truth & Reconciliation and improved healing for us all.

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November 12, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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What a dynamic session today on values-based #procurement at #NourishSymposium2025!
"What runs as a common thread across the world is that farmers seem to be upset everywhere. That is what is at the heart of food systems and that is what we need to transform across the world to make sure that we are able to help solve the challenge of climate change. To focus on food as a contributor to climate change." - Ajay Vir Jakhar, Farmer & Chairman, Bharat Krishak Samaj (Farmers’ Forum India) Nourish Symposium 2025
November 6, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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We are so excited to premiere 'Flavourful Connections: A Taste of Culinary Medicine' this Friday, part of the 2025 Nourish Food for Health Symposium. Check out these behind the scenes images! 🎬

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November 5, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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A wonderful and important session in Day Two of #NourishSymposium2025 with Dr. Nicole Redvers @drnicoleredvers.bsky.social, Dr. Joseph Leblanc, Elaine Eppler, and Nourish ED Hayley Lapalme.

"This language of #planetaryhealth is everywhere. What does it mean to you, and why does it matter?" 🤔
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November 4, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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We are so pleased to welcome Health Futurist and Nourish Board Chair @zaynakhayat.bsky.social next week to the 2025 Nourish Symposium: 100 Million Better Bites! Join us as we look to the future of #healthcare - together!

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Nourish Symposium Keynote: The Future of Food and Health. Zayna Khayat. Chief Program Officer and Managing Director for the History and Future of Healthcare. AMS Healthcare. A headshot image of Zayna Khayat wearing a black short-sleeved sweater, black thick-rimmed square glass, with long hair.
October 31, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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Nourish's Third Anchor Cohort (2023-2025) is wrapping up this fall - and they have awesome stories to share! Join us next week at the 2025 Food for Health Symposium: 100 Million Better Bites to hear powerful stories of change from each of our Third Cohort teams!

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October 30, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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We're less than a week away from the 2025 Nourish Symposium: 100 Million Better Bites! Next week, we'll welcome Dr. Walter Willett for a keynote fresh from the release of the 2025 #EATLancet Commission Report. Join us!

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Keynote: Healthy, Sustainable, and Just Diets: Pathways to a Triple Win. Walter Willett, Co-Chair, 2025 EAT Lancet Commission, Professor of Epidemiology and Nutrition, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Text accompanied by a headshot image of Dr. Willett, smiling.
October 29, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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Thank you to ✨ #AramarkCanada for supporting Nourish's 2025 Food for Health Symposium! Learn more 👉 www.aramark.ca/home

Join us online - register today!

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Thank you! Aramark Canada. Aramark proudly serves the world's leading organizations around the world with food and facilities management.
October 28, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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One week away from the 2025 Nourish Food for Health Symposium: 100 Million Better Bites! Together with #healthcare & #foodsystem leaders, practitioners, & partners, we’ll explore the intersections of food, culture, climate, & care. Join us! #NourishSymposium2025

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October 27, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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This week, Nourish's Culinary Medicine Collaborative Project Team hosted a teaching kitchen night. At Nourish, we believe that food is a powerful lever for making health care systems more preventive, equitable, and sustainable. Go team!

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October 24, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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📣 Speaker announcement for the 2025 Food for Health Symposium: 100 Million Better Bites! We are thrilled to welcome these insightful speakers!

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🍓 Kitty RLynn Lickers is a grandma, auntie, mother, and a storyteller. Kitty is Onondaga from Six Nations of the Grand River. She is engaged in every kind of food activity that leads toward access and sustainability. Running cooking classes, cooking on APTN programs with chefs, Kitty believes in cooking, growing, eating, preserving, and sharing good food. Kitty teaches part time at McMaster University and works with her granddaughter. She is always striving toward sovereignty. Kitty is a firm believer in the connections to each other, land, and everything we have. Kitty is a member of the Nourish Indigenous & Allies Advisory. 🔬 Ellen Cecilie Wright is Senior Science Officer, part of the EAT-Lancet Commission 2.0 and other science projects at EAT. Ellen’s professional background is in nutrition and food systems. Ellen holds a master’s degree in Nutrition and is currently pursuing a PhD at the University of Oslo, focusing on sustainable diets. 🥙 Marissa Alexander is the Co-Executive Director at Food Secure Canada and co-chair of the Nourish Indigenous & Allies Advisory. She is a registered dietitian who is passionate about anti-racism, food security, and equity. Living and working on the traditional and unceded territory of the Lheidli T’enneh, she has had the honour of working alongside 55 First Nations communities in northern BC. She is working on her Master of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies with a focus on equity and cultural studies. 🥬 Elaine Eppler is a clinical dietitian who has worked at Vancouver General Hospital for 38 years, providing nutrition care to inpatients on the Neurosciences Unit.
October 23, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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Thank you to the ✨ Joannah and Brian Lawson Centre for Child Nutrition ✨ at the University of Toronto for supporting Nourish's 2025 Food for Health Symposium!

Learn more 👉 childnutrition.utoronto.ca

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The Joannah & Brian Lawson Centre for Child Nutrition connects scholars, health practitioners, patients and knowledge resources to improve the nutrition of children, in Canada and around the world. A network of researchers and educators affiliated with the University of Toronto, they work toward better lifelong health through reduced child overweight, obesity, malnutrition and chronic disease.
October 23, 2025 at 3:09 PM