Translational research is also needed to leverage allied health professionals and the health care infrastructure to reduce diet-related illnesses. Innovative translational and implementation science research has tremendous potential to strengthen medical nutrition therapy led by registered dietitian nutritionists for an array of acute and chronic diseases and conditions (11, 264–267). Many other promising strategies warrant significant research, including the following: expanding the integration of food security and diet quality assessments into electronic medical records or Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources, updating of medical and other health care licensing and certification standards to include nutrition education, assessing health and cost impacts of medically tailored meals and produce prescriptions, and leveraging Medicaid flexible benefit services and Medicare Advantage for better nutrition and health (268, 269). The rapidly growing private and public interest and investment in such “Food is Medicine” approaches must be informed by robust research. Strengthened coordination of research priorities and investments across CMS, CMMI, CDC, Health Resources and Service Administration (HRSA), NIH, and USDA, among others, can inform how best to engage in these strategies together with the allied health community in real-time. In addition, more research is needed across the policy development and dissemination spectrum to advance our understanding of efficacy, cost-effectiveness, equity, and feasibility of policy, systems changes, and environmental supports that promote healthy eating.