Featuring Sara Bleich and Hilary Seligman
This week, Review of Systems joins forces with Harvard Chan This Week in Health for a crossover podcast episode! We’re talking about food stamps, or SNAP, and how upcoming legislation in the Farm Bill will shape SNAP policy over the next five years. Changes in SNAP policy will have important public health implications and affect the food insecure patients we see in our clinics in primary care – so it’s a perfect topic for us to examine together. Audrey Provenzano and Noah Leavitt, the host of Harvard Chan This Week in Health talk with our two guests for this week: Sara Bleich, who is a Professor of Public Health Policy at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in the Department of Health Policy and Management. She is also the Carol K. Pforzheimer Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study and is an expert in obesity and food policy; and Hilary Seligman, who is a primary care physician and Associate Professor of Medicine and of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, UCSF. She is also a Senior Medical Advisor for Feeding America, Director of CDC’s Nutrition and Obesity Policy Research and Evaluation Network and the founder of EatSF: A Healthy Food Voucher Program for Low-Income Residents of San Francisco.
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