Connecting New Yorkers with the Food They Need to Thrive

Healthy food systems planning and capacity-building: Projects will empower communities to design, coordinate, and implement food plans. Regional food planning efforts will make healthy, local food more affordable and accessible. Projects in this area include:

Nutrition benefit programs: Projects make it easier for people to enroll in and use nutrition benefit programs. Projects in this area include the expansion of:

Healthier, culturally responsive food purchasing in public institutions: Schools, Head Start programs, senior centers, homeless shelters, and other public institutions will use their purchasing power to provide healthier meals to millions of New Yorkers, while also creating additional opportunities for smaller farmers and suppliers, particularly people of color, to compete for institutional contracts. Projects in this area include:

Food Is Medicine: Health care providers and payers will connect patients in need with healthy food, through medically tailored meals and healthy food prescription programs. Projects in this area include:


To schedule a meeting with Healthy Food, Healthy Lives program officers Julia McCarthy and Andrew Barrett, please contact

Administrative Assistant

Blandine Etienne

Blandine Etienne

Administrative Assistant

Blandine Etienne

As Administrative Assistant, Blandine Etienne is responsible for supporting NYHealth’s team of program officers. Her duties include coordinating travel arrangements; assisting with meeting and event planning; tracking expenses and submitting expense reports; and providing general administrative assistance.

Prior to joining NYHealth, Blandine has used her customer service and administrative skills in the telecommunications, allied health, and publishing industries.

Blandine has an Associate’s degree in Biology from Kingsborough Community College and a Bachelor’s degree in Biology from Cornell University.

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People wearing Delivery of healthy food items and groceries to woman at home during COVID-19 pandemic.