Upcoming Dates and Topics for Swetland Center Virtual Seminar Series:
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Partnering for Produce Prescription Expansion within the Northeast Ohio Quality
Improvement Hub: Lessons from the Produce Path Coupon Program
This panel presentation will focus on implementation and impact of a technology-enhanced produce prescription (PRx) program offered at 13 primary care sites in Northeast Ohio in 2025. The program provided $100 coupons to 431 Medicaid/Medicare patients for fruit and vegetable purchases at 7 farmers markets in Northeast Ohio. Learn more about:
Partnership strategies to engage clinical practices, community educators, and farmers market managers in PRx implementation.
Implementation processes including integration of the Produce Path app in PRx.
Program impacts to inform future expansion of PRx in Cuyahoga County.
Date: Tuesday, January 20, 2026
Time: 9:00 - 10:00am (Eastern)
Location: Virtual
Panelists:
- Mamie Priestly
- Owusua Yamoah, PhD, MA
- Shari Bolen, MD, MPH
- Traci Singree
Moderated by Darcy Freedman, PhD, MPH
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Targeted Investment - Meaningful Engagement (TIME)
This NICHD funded study seeks to richly describe the history of structural discrimination and racism in the Linden neighborhood and to study whether integrating that knowledge into community development initiatives can create intentionally reparative community improvements.
Date: Tuesday, February 17, 2026
Time: 9:00 - 10:00am (Eastern)
Location: Virtual
Speakers:
- Deena Chisolm, PhD
- Director, Center for Child Health Equity and Outcomes Research
- Chisolm Lab, Abigail Wexner Research Institute at Nationwide Children’s Hospital
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- Kierra Barnett, PhD, MPH
- Senior Research Scientist
- Chisolm Lab, Abigail Wexner Research Institute at Nationwide Children’s Hospital
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Gaining Consensus on Metrics of Nutrition Equity for Urban Food Systems
Commonly used measures for assessing local food systems, such as food security or healthy food access, do not provide guidance into the series of actions involved in transforming these outcomes. To address this gap, our community action research project studied implementation mechanisms (i.e., series of linked actions) involved in community-led efforts to transform urban food systems to achieve goals of nutrition equity. Our data were derived from the perceptions of 18 community leaders identifying as Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) planning to implement food justice initiatives in Cleveland, Ohio, United States.
To begin operationalizing these implementation mechanisms, we conducted an ExpertLens panel, bringing together about 60 community-based, organizational, and systems-level champions for nutrition equity in urban food systems. Through an iterative, 3 round process, a national sample of Experts rated and commented on the relevance to nutrition equity and feasibility to measure the process or outcomes of 15 implementation mechanisms derived from the aforementioned 18 community-food justice leaders. We will report our findings from this study from Fall 2025 and discuss next steps needed to advance this work.
Learn more here: https://case.edu/swetland/research/nourishing-power-network/consensus-building-metrics-nutrition-equity
Date: Wednesday, March 18, 2026
Time: 12:00 - 1:00 PM (Eastern)
Location: Virtual
Speakers:
- Darcy Freedman, PhD, MPH
- Director, Mary Ann Swetland Center for Environmental Health
- Case Western Reserve University
- Owusua Yamoah, PhD, MA
- Research Scientist, Mary Ann Swetland Center for Environmental Health
- Case Western Reserve University