Empower
Supporting people with food allergies and families in their journey and achieving increased awareness of food allergy—because our community cannot wait.
Participants volunteered their time for this effort.
Empower Yourself
Focus is power, and preparation is freedom. Just as a dancer has daily warm-ups and exercises to maintain their readiness and sure footing, people living with food allergy know the daily steps they need to take to feel secure.
When you educate yourself, you don’t live in fear—you live in motion. More than 33 million people in the U.S. live with food allergy, which can cause life-threatening reactions. But treatments are available. Talking with an allergist opens up options for those with food allergy and their families.
Knowledge doesn’t just happen. You build it.
FARE’s public service announcement, RISE, features performer, coach, and food allergy advocate Andy Hartman; dancer and actor Hugo Miller, also a person with food allergies; as well as dance partners Sophia Oddi and Anne Kim. Choreographed by the acclaimed Laura Miller, RISE evokes the challenges and triumphs of the food allergy community.
Building Knowledge, Expanding Horizons
Andy Hartman’s journey as a person with food allergy has led him to being a food allergy advocate. Learn more about the options available to you and your family and what’s on the horizon for members of the food allergy community.
Food Allergy Treatments
Multiple options for treating food allergy is essential, because no two patients or food allergies are the same. Immunotherapies and drug treatments are being researched, developed, and approved—ushering in a new era in food allergy treatment.
Join the Patient Registry
Enroll alongside 14,000+ individuals and families managing food allergies who are sharing their food allergy stories and making a critical difference, helping to speed the search for new treatments and informing transformative improvements in patient care.
Recently Funded Research
As the largest provider of charitable support to food allergy research in the U.S., FARE accelerates scientific innovations that seek to reverse the rising prevalence of this life-changing, potentially life-threatening disease. Learn more about our recent grants.
Food allergy prevalence has been on the rise for the past 20 years1 and is a disease impacting more than 33 million children and adults nationwide.2
In order to better understand the daily realities of those impacted by food allergy, 500 U.S. parents and guardians of children with food allergies were recently surveyed* about the challenges they face in helping manage their child’s condition, including concerns about safety, social inclusion, and feeling understood by others.
There is a fundamental misunderstanding of the impact of food allergy as a disease, fueled by a lack of public awareness that FARE is dedicated to addressing, ultimately shifting the trajectory of this growing, silent public health crisis.
Sung Poblete, PhD, RN, CEO of FARE
References
1. Benedé S, Blázquez AB, Chiang D, Tordesillas L, Berin MC. The Rise of Food Allergy: Environmental Factors and Emerging Treatments. EBioMedicine. 2016;7:27-34: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4909486/
2. FARE (Food Allergy Research & Education). Facts and Statistics. Available at: https://www.foodallergy.org/resources/facts-and-statistics. Accessed December 19, 2024.
*The survey was conducted online in the U.S. by The Harris Poll on behalf of Genentech and Novartis, among 500 U.S. adults, ages 18+, who are parents or guardians of children aged 17 or younger with one or more listed food allergies. Respondents for this survey were selected from among those who agreed to participate in online surveys. The survey was fielded November 9 through November 18, 2023.
