Delta GREENS Food is Medicine Intervention

Mississippi is a place deeply rooted in cultural values, yet also a place where generations of communities have experienced persistent health challenges intertwined with poverty. This project focuses on Bolivar, Washington, and Sunflower, contiguous counties in the Delta that are designated as health disparity populations. Over 65% of the 100,000 residents are Black/African American and \~30% live at or below the poverty level. Obesity rates are high and the rate of diabetes is almost double the national average. Tufts University received a grant from the National Institute of Minority Health and Health Disparities to develop, test, and evaluate a Food is Medicine program in Mississippi. The Delta GREENS Food is Medicine (FIM) Project, is a collaborative project in Bolivar, Washington, and Sunflower counties in Mississippi. The intervention involves regularly distributed fruit and vegetable produce boxes as well as nutrition education materials to the intervention group. The control group will receive produce boxes later, after they complete study activities. The project's primary goal is to improve health outcomes by creating a FIM intervention. The Delta GREENS FIM Project aims to become a model for promoting nutrition security and management of chronic conditions in varied communities nationwide.

NCT Number	NCT06358859
Lead Sponsor	Tufts University Collaborators: National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD), Tougaloo College, Mississippi, Delta Health Center, Mississippi, Reuben V. Anderson Center
Conditions	Cardiometabolic Risk Factors, Diabetes, High Blood Pressure, Obesity, Nutrition Security
Enrollment	300 participants
Start Date	2024-06-05
Primary Completion	2027-05 (estimated)
Study Completion	2027-05 (estimated)
Updated on ClinicalTrials.gov	2026-04-14