MMS Works to Address the Social Determinants of Health

“Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food,” Hippocrates famously declared. The Medical Society has been collaborating with Community Servings and others to bring increased funding and attention to the social determinants of health — including inadequate nutrition. Community Servings is a Boston-based nonprofit that feeds low-income individuals living with serious illness and their families. MMS officers met with Community Servings in October to strategize.

From left to right: MMS Executive Vice President Lois Dehls Cornell, MMS President-Elect Maryanne Bombaugh, MD, MMS President Alain Chaoui, MD, Community Servings CEO David Waters, and MMS Vice President David Rossman, MD. Photo by Alex Calcagno.