FARE Neighborhoods Day
Washington, D.C. | October 30-31, 2025
Celebrating Our Collective Wins!
FARE Neighborhoods Day 2025 brought together more than 80 community leaders, clinicians, researchers, and advocates who serve as vital bridges between local action and widespread change in food allergy equity. Over two days, participants learned from one another, shared stories, and co-created solutions rooted in community wisdom.
Participants explored the state of food allergy in the U.S., examined community and clinical solutions to food insecurity, strengthened partnerships, elevated youth perspectives, and engaged in hands-on workshops in culinary medicine and creative expression. Throughout FARE Neighborhoods Day, attendees moved from reflection to action, envisioning how food allergy equity can be realized through community-driven solutions, interdisciplinary collaboration, and sustained partnership.
The two-day event reaffirmed that real change starts in our neighborhoods and that every voice, from patient to policymaker, plays a role in shaping a more inclusive and informed future for those living with food allergies.
We’ve hit a milestone: 10,932 FARE Neighborhoods community members educated on food allergy since 2023, plus increases in allergist visits and epinephrine access.
Our 2025 Event
Featured Speakers
- Carla M. Davis, MD, Chair of Pediatrics and Child Health at Howard University, and incoming AAAAI President—the first-ever African American President of the American Academy of Allergy Asthma & Immunology
- Dariush Mozaffarian, MD, DrPH, Director of the Food is Medicine Institute at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University and Distinguished Professor, Dean Emeritus, and Jean Mayer Professor at the Friedman School, Professor of Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine.
- Ruchi Gupta, MD, MPH, Director of the Center for Food Allergy & Asthma Research (CFAAR), and FARE Scientific Advisory Council member
- Amy Scurlock, MD, Professor at University of Arkansas Medical Sciences
- Emily Brown, Founder and CEO at Attane Heath, Aspen Health Fellow, and food allergy caregiver & advocate
Event Co-Chairs
Andrea Pappalardo Wlochowicz, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics at University of Illinois Chicago
Edith A. Perez, MD
Professor Emeritus, Mayo Clinic
Elizabeth Bradford, MS
Assistant Director of Community Health & Analysis
OctoberFARE
FARE Neighborhoods Day is part of OctoberFARE, which included the Food Allergy Summit (October 31–November 1) and a special Teal Pumpkin Project celebration on Halloween.
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Our 2025 Venue
The Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center
1300 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20004
Public transportation, rideshare access, and parking available.
About FARE Neighborhoods Day
FARE Neighborhoods Day reinforces the power of local ecosystems in driving national change. With momentum building, the FARE Neighborhoods Initiative (FNI) is poised to expand its reach and deepen impact across new cities in 2026.
In 2024, FNI commissioned a painting by Washington, DC, artist Luis Del Valle, which symbolizes the hope and resilience of the FARE Neighborhoods Initiative. (Seen at right: Luis Del Valle with Elizabeth Bradford, FARE’s Assistant Director of Community Health & Analysis.)
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The sharing of ideas and initiatives with a diverse group of speakers was transformative. I gained more knowledge about food allergy disease and the complexities around food insecurity and food allergy in my community.
—2024 FARE Neighborhoods Day attendee
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