Chelsea Walczak Vircks’ Post

Join us on October 8th for this FREE networking lunch and panel conversation highlighting the importance of women's mental wellbeing and the connection between mind, body, and heart health. We are thrilled to be joined by panelists: Monique Hall, Rocina Lizarraga, Michael Mantell, Ph.D., Lisa Risser, CPA, MBA, FACHE, FHFMA and Lauren Shroyer, and moderator, the amazing Seema Keswani. RSVP for this free, public event today at: https://lnkd.in/eDrwqFsN

The American Heart Association 's Health Equity Research Network (HERN) on Community-Driven Research Approaches will bring together teams of scientists from Furman University, Yale University and the University of California-San Diego to work collaboratively on research projects with community-based organizations. The UC San Diego work is focused around flipping the paradigm of how information for research and funding flows from communities to institutions of higher education, while concentrating on the important issue of food justice. I'm so happy for the incredible leaders that are involved in shaping and sustaining this for the next 5 years and beyond! Congratulations Cheryl Anderson, Blanca Melendrez (She/Her/Ella), Earl Felisme, Tana Lepule, Eric Hekler, Aimee Zeitz, Rocina Lizarraga, Shana Wright (and many many more who will be involved!) #AHA #HERN #CBPR

Join the American Heart Association for free professional learning for in-service and pre-service teachers this fall! https://lnkd.in/gkDdVSbz #leadershipdevelopment #educatorleadership #teachers

Proud to see this and thrilled to continue to get the opportunity to support our internship program here as a manager & mentor!

Health Care by Food’s Health Equity and Common Measures Task Force has designed a set of common measures to facilitate the comparison of data among our 20 funded pilot studies for combined evaluation of results from different studies. Shared metrics are vital for pooling data across studies and producing more generalizable insights to allow for more comparability between studies. While these common measures were originally developed for the Association’s funded studies, we welcome their use in the broader food is medicine research community as adopting common measures across initiatives will lead to more consistent, comparable and actionable data. We also welcome feedback and conversation on these measures in the hope they may be useful for the field. Health Care by Food will hold a webinar to discuss common measures on July 18th from 1:00 – 2:00 pm PT. Register for the webinar via Zoom https://lnkd.in/ghGQhsT4

I'm really proud (emotionally so infact) to share this incredible win for the community. Our friends at UCSD Center for Community Health & Mas Fresco have carefully crafted the Mas Fresco Plus Produce Rx pilot over the past few years, ensured it followed the community's lead and made local, sustainable impact. A large coalition of partners (residents, CBOs, farmers, and clinics) showed up in a big way to advocate for this and I'm happy to have played a role in moving this forward. A heartfelt thank you to the San Diego County Board of Supervisors for hearing the community when they lifted their voice for this continued funding. Thanks also to Blanca Melendrez (She/Her/Ella), Trixy Joy Manansala, MPH, CHES, Adriana Bearse, Joe, Suzanne Afflalo, MD, Tana Lepule, Earl Felisme, Vista Community Clinic, Alliance for African Assistance, Foodshed Farmers Cooperative, Yasukochi Family Farms, COLCH, SBCS San Diego, Juli Stone Moran, Sheila Brown FACHE, the hundreds of residents, participants, and growers who shared their stories and perspectives, and to even many more! A special shoutout to Alexa Wohrman, MNSP, RD, Erika Cervantes-Aarons and Jarie Francisco too ♥️ #grateful #produceprescriptions #foodismedicine