Principal Investigator Seth Berkowitz, MD, MPH, with research partners Community Servings and Massachusetts General Hospital, was featured in Nutrition Insights for a study that focuses on using medically tailored meal delivery as an effective health care intervention for diabetes.
The five-year research project grant (R01), a $2.9 million NIH grant, will support a randomized clinical trial involving 200 individuals with Type 2 diabetes and food insecurity in Massachusetts.
“While medically tailored meal delivery programs are gaining increased public attention and acceptance by health care providers, there has yet to be a full-scale clinical trial to test its effects on diabetes outcomes when compared to other food insecurity interventions,” explained Berkowitz, assistant professor of medicine in the division of general medicine and clinical epidemiology.
Read the article here.