IHPC Open Town Meeting: The Future of Integrative Whole Health

Join us for a meaningful discussion Tuesday Dec. 3 on advancing integrative Whole Health practices. This open meeting welcomes all stake holders to participate in shaping the future of integrative whole health.

Tentative Agenda:

• Presentation on the political landscape

by Mary Jo H. Mitchell, Director of Government and Public Affairs, Population Association of America

• Insight from the new Administration’s Transition Team

Pending speaker confirmation

• IHPC Updates and DIscussion

Led by the Integrative Health Policy Consortium

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We encourage IHPC Partners for Health to share this event within their networks to ensure broad engagement.

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It’s time for doctors to tackle nutrition: Proposed Nutrition Competencies for Medical Students and Physician Trainees

Two years ago, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bipartisan resolution authored by Rep. Jim McGovern of Massachusetts that calls for meaningful nutrition education in medical schools, residencies and fellowship programs. Congress already allocates over $16 billion annually in federal funding for physician training. With the measure’s passage, lawmakers made it clear this training should include comprehensive education about the role of nutrition in health.

What happened next was magic: Top organizations in medical education at the undergraduate and graduate levels held a summit last year and agreed to identify a list of core nutrition competencies for future medical students and residents.

Over this past year, academic researchers worked with key stakeholders, including the Accreditation Council of Graduate Medical Education, to develop a list of 36 nutrition competencies recommended for incorporation in undergraduate or graduate medical education. The list was published in a Sept. 30 article in JAMA Network Open, with Dr. David M. Eisenberg of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health as the lead author.

Read more here

IHPC Happenings:

Intern Sydney Bishop to spearhead IHPC Project to identify Congressional Health Advocates

IHPC has enlisted the services of a new intern, Sydney Bishop. She is a recent Georgetown University graduate in Integrative Medicine and Health Sciences with a strong interest in health policy.

Bishop will be working to help IHPC identify new Congress members who may have an interest in health and then share that list with Representative Judy Chu (D-CA), who chairs the Integrative Health and Wellness Congressional Caucus. The goal is to recruit new Congressional advocates for the Caucus from the many new members joining the 119th Congress.

IHPC Policy Committee Internship Opportunity

IHPC is looking for an intern that would be assigned to review the 2020 and 2022 AHRQ Reports on Pain to identify the research studies that were rejected from consideration to identify any trends or issues that can be corrected by researchers in the future so that their research is considered. Interested interns reach out to Michael Duarte <info@ihpc.org>