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Joining forces to change community health and clinical care for generations to come

The American College of Lifestyle Medicine and Blue Zones® are building healthy communities together.

We come together with a united vision of a nation and world made of healthier, stronger, and more resilient communities. This partnership combines proven, powerful methods inside and outside hospital/clinic walls to ignite transformation of our current broken healthcare system. Our mutual promise is to improve individual and population health, reining in the epidemic of chronic disease and the 90% of all healthcare spending that is tied to the treatment of conditions rooted in unhealthful lifestyle behaviors.

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Blue Zones Certified Clinicians

We are establishing a network of Blue Zones Certified Clinicians. The opportunity to earn recognition as a “Blue Zones-Certified Physician” or “Blue Zones-Certified Healthcare Professional” will be unveiled by the end of 2025. This is available exclusively to clinicians who have already earned certification in the field of lifestyle medicine.

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Creating Better Outcomes

A nation and world filled with blue zones hotspots is the vision of this partnership. We are on a mission to create communities that support the adoption of healthy lifestyle behaviors, with ALL physicians and medical professionals trained and equipped to support the eco-system of health. All of this while achieving the quintuple aim and delivering equitable, whole person care.

Together, Blue Zones and ACLM are leading the charge to revolutionize the way healthcare is delivered and experienced with a shared vision of healthier, stronger, and more resilient communities across the United States and around the world.

Frequently Asked Questions

Amanda Pears Kelly

Executive Director of the Association of Clinicians for the Underserved (ACU)

“This partnership is a powerful response to the health inequities that health center patients and so many others in underserved communities face every day. Chronic diseases disproportionately impact medically underserved communities, and we need innovative approaches and training to support our clinicians in addressing them. As a strategic partner of ACLM, we’re heartened to see them partner with Blue Zones to help improve our healthcare workforce’s readiness to combine lifestyle medicine with evidence-based population health initiatives to achieve true community transformation.” 

Anand Parekh, MD

Chief Medical Advisor of the Bipartisan Policy Center

“In my book, Prevention First: Policymaking for a Healthier America, I emphasize the need to mobilize the entire community ecosystem to take proactive steps in both preventing disease and promoting health. This convergence of Blue Zones and the American College of Lifestyle Medicine represents an ecosystem approach unlike any other. This starts with our physicians and medical professionals being trained in both lifestyle medicine—which  includes prescribing food as medicine—and Blue Zones principles. This isn’t a red issue or blue issue. ACLM and Blue Zones’ goal is to educate and empower all people to take far greater control of their health destinies, with a keen focus on addressing lifestyle-related chronic disease health disparities.”

Kate Goodrich, MD

Chief Medical Officer at Humana

“I have been thrilled with Humana’s partnership with the ACLM to provide accessible lifestyle medicine training for all of Humana and Centerwell’s employed healthcare professionals and our network clinicians. This whole-person approach to care empowers and enables our clinicians to invest in the patient relationship and moves us from an acute, episodic sick care model of care to true care for health and longitudinal maintenance of holistic wellbeing, ultimately delivering on better health outcomes, quality of life, and longevity. I know this new partnership between ACLM and Blue Zones will elevate our clinicians’ training even further and advance the evidence base on best practices – which is vital in helping shape the future of healthcare.”

Training clinicians in FQHC/CHCs

Blue Zones is proud to join as an Impact Partner in support of ACLM’s National Training Initiative. This program is providing training and certification to one primary care provider at each of our nation’s 1,400 federally qualified health centers (FQHC).

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