Task Force
About the Task Force on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health
Our Task Force was a diverse, non-partisan group of stakeholders who worked to inform the goals of the 2022 White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health. Ahead of the Conference, our Task Force led an effort to review more than 75 existing policy reports; hold three in-person national policy convenings (bringing together more than 240 multi-sector leaders and stakeholders); and host more than 15 listening sessions planned with communities around the nation to elevate and center the knowledge and perspectives of individuals with diverse lived experiences around hunger, poor nutrition, and diet-related diseases.
The result of this effort, our Task Force Report, was shared with the White House ahead of the Conference and contains 30 high-priority policy recommendations, undergirded by more than 200 specific actions for the federal agencies, Congress, and other stakeholders, to end hunger, advance nutrition, and reduce diet-related conditions in the United States. Following the success of both the 2022 White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health and the exciting release of the National Strategy on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health, the Task Force’s work formally ended. As opportunities arise for members to collaborate or efforts to align, members may partner in the future.
The Task Force Report
Task Force Co-Chairs
Chef José Andrés
Founder, World Central Kitchen
President/Chef at ThinkFoodGroup
Ambassador Ertharin Cousin
Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Food Systems for the Future
Former Executive Director, World Food Programme
Senator Bill Frist
Former Majority Leader of the United States Senate
Senior Fellow, Bipartisan Policy Center
Secretary Dan Glickman
Distinguished Fellow of Global Food and Agriculture, Chicago Council on Global Affairs
Senior Fellow, Bipartisan Policy Center
Former United States Secretary of Agriculture
Dariush (Dary) Mozaffarian
Jean Mayer Professor of Nutrition, Friedman School of Nutrition Science & Policy, Tufts University
Professor of Medicine, Tufts School of Medicine and Division of Cardiology, Tufts Medical Center
Task Force Members
Sonia Angell
Visiting Professor, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health; Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine, Columbia University Vagelos College
Catherine Bertini
Distinguished Fellow of Global Food and Agriculture, The Chicago Council on Global Affairs
Catherine D’Amato
Founder, Hunger to Health Collaboratory
President & CEO, Greater Boston Food Bank
Robert Egger
Community Nutrition Innovator and Elder Ally
Curt Ellis
CEO, FoodCorps
Priya Fielding-Singh
Assistant Professor in the Department of Family and Consumer Studies, University of Utah
Sam Kass
Founding Partner, TROVE
Former White House Chef and Senior Policy Advisor for Nutrition
Jim Krieger
Executive Director of Action, Healthy Food America
William Li
CEO, Angiogenesis Foundation
Roberto Meza
Board President, National Young Farmers Coalition
Angela Odoms-Young
Associate Professor, Director, Food and Nutrition Education in Communities Program and NYS Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP), Cornell University
Rear Admiral (Ret.) Frank Ponds
Nutrition and National Security Speaker’s Bureau Member, Mission: Readiness
Martin Richards
Executive Director, Community Farm Alliance
Teresa Romero
President, United Farm Workers
Leslie Sarasin
President and CEO, FMI – The Food Industry Association
Pam Schwartz
Executive Director of Community Health, Kaiser Permanente
Hilary Seligman
Professor of Medicine and of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California San Francisco
Brooks Tingle
President And Chief Executive Officer, John Hancock Insurance
Ann Veneman
Former Secretary of Agriculture, U.S. Department of Agriculture
Donald Warne
Chair & Professor, Department of Indigenous Health; Director, Indians Into Medicine (INMED) & Public Health Programs; University of North Dakota
Kim Williams
Chair of Medicine, University of Louisville
Former President of The American College of Cardiology