HGA’s Farm to Pharm Addresses Challenges Around Food Education, Access, & Distribution

Design concept seeks to transform global health through the development and distribution of medicinal food to promote access, equity, and economic opportunity.

Farm to Pharm leverages existing scientific advancement to envision food as medicine to reframe traditional notions of healthcare delivery. It further seeks to rethink health investment, food production, and distribution to promote whole person health, health access, food equity and economic opportunity, particularly in struggling rural and urban communities and extreme geographies.

The project’s primary focus is the opportunity created by merging precision pharmaceutical treatment with modified and fortified food. The solution refocuses investment from disease management to prevention and population health through personalized, in-home “Grow Sheets.”

The secondary focus addresses the numerous challenges of food education, access and distribution that span diverse demographics and geographies. The solution creates economic opportunity in agricultural and biomedical fields, while equalizing access though transportable, modular, food production and health-themed community centers called “Grow Hubs”.

Learn more about HGA’s Farm to Pharm concept below.

Farm to Pharm was developed for Healthcare Design Magazine’s Breaking Through conceptual design competition that encourages innovation by asking participants to solve challenges anticipated in the future delivery of healthcare without the usual restrictions tied to budget, schedule, and codes. HGA is the 2020 Competition winner.