Gary Cohen, Uncommon Hero
HCWH's co-founder Gary Cohen is a recipient of the prestigious Skoll Award. This video, chronicling the evolution of HCWH's work, premiered at the 2009 Skoll World Forum. enlarge video
HCWH's co-founder Gary Cohen is a recipient of the prestigious Skoll Award. This video, chronicling the evolution of HCWH's work, premiered at the 2009 Skoll World Forum. enlarge video
Purchasing Policies and Guides
Policies
Health Care Without Harm has created the following policy statements to raise awareness about key challenges with the current food system:
- Policy Statement on Antibiotics in Food (pdf)
- Antibiotic Resistance Factsheet (pdf)
- Recombinant Bovine Growth Hormone (rBGH) (pdf)
- Genetically Engineered Food (pdf)
Purchasing Guides
We have created the following purchasing guides to help health care facilities implement the Healthy Food in Health Care Pledge.
- Sign the Healthy Food in Health Care Pledge
- 10 Steps to Healthy Food in Health Care
- Food Eco-Labels: A Purchasing Guide (pdf)
- Purchasing Guide to Sourcing Dairy Products Without rBGH (pdf)
- Purchasing Guide to Sourcing Food Without Genetically Engineered Ingredients (pdf)
- Purchaser's Guide to Sourcing Sustainable Poultry (pdf)
- Purchaser's Guide to Sourcing Sustainable Coffee and Tea (pdf)
- Guide to Poultry Applicable Eco-labels (pdf)
- Choosing Environmentally Preferable Food Service Ware (pdf)
- Biobased Food Service Ware and Packaging (pdf)
- Sample Poultry Supplier Survey Questions (pdf)
- Feeding Arsenic to Poultry: Is This Good Medicine? (pdf)
- Seasonal Foods: A New Menu for Public Health (pdf)
Key Resources
- HCWH Europe – Better Food, Better Health, Better Environment: The Benefits of Sustainable Food Procurement in Hospitals (pdf)
- HCWH Europe – Model Menu for Sustainable Food (pdf)
- HCWH Europe – Recipe for Change: 10 "Golden Rules" for Getting More Local and Organic Food onto Hospital Menus (pdf)
- HCWH Europe – Fresh, Local and Organic: A Successful Recipe for Improving Europe's Hospital Food (pdf)
- Food Service and Climate Change
- Menu of Change: Survey of Healthy Food in Health Care Pledge Hospitals (pdf)
- List of Healthy Food Pledge Signers
- Food Service Contractors: Download the Healthy Food in Health Care Food Service Contractor Pledge (pdf)
- Redefining Healthy Food, a Robert Wood Johnson White Paper (pdf)
- Food and Food Purchasing: A Role for Health Care (pdf)
- HCWH Policy Statements on Genetically Engineered Food, Recombinant Bovine Growth Hormone (rBGH), and Antibiotics
- Feeding Arsenic to Poultry: Is This Good Medicine? (pdf)
- Guidelines to Increase the Use of Local Foods at Meetings by the Society for Nutrition Education
- Healthy Vending Criteria (pdf)
- Farmers' Markets and CSAs on Hospital Grounds (pdf)
- Hospital-Supported Agriculture and Hospital Gardens
- Cultivating Common Ground: Linking Health and Sustainable Agriculture, a report by Prevention Institute (pdf)
- Choosing Environmentally Preferable Food Service Ware (pdf)
