
Hilary Seligman is professor of medicine and of epidemiology and biostatistics at the University of California San Francisco. She holds faculty affiliations in UCSF’s Division of General Internal Medicine, Institute for Health Policy Studies, ARC for Health Equity and Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute. Seligman is a nationally recognized expert on food insecurity and health outcomes across the life course, with a particular interest in programs and policies that can simultaneously support food security and better health. Her recent work has focused on the development, implementation and evaluation of Food is Medicine programs. She directs NOPREN (the CDC’s Nutrition and Obesity Policy Research and Evaluation Network). Her team runs Vouchers for Veggies, a large produce prescription program known in San Francisco as EatSF. Seligman is also deputy scientific lead for the American Heart Association’s Health Care by Food initiative.