Wed, Oct 22 · 7:00 – 8:00 PM ET · Live on Zoom · Free
From Survivor to Advocate: Using Lifestyle Medicine to Transform Our Health and Our Community
with Dr. Faith Nyong
ABOUT THIS SESSION
Lifestyle medicine has the power to change lives, but the true challenge lies in daily implementation. This presentation shares how lifestyle medicine can move beyond information to become a transformative way of life, personally and within communities.
Through personal experience and community-based work, this session highlights simple, sustainable changes, like plant-forward eating, increasing movement, managing stress, improving sleep, and building supportive relationships, that support healing, improve quality of life, and reduce risk factors for cancer and other chronic conditions. It also explores the unique role cancer survivors play as voices of influence, with real examples of people creating a ripple effect of health and hope in their families, churches, and communities, and ways to expand this work by partnering with organizations such as the American Cancer Society.
WHO IT'S FOR
Individuals interested in adopting sustainable lifestyle medicine practices, community leaders, and especially cancer survivors seeking to become advocates for health transformation.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
- How simple, sustainable lifestyle changes support healing and reduce risk factors for chronic conditions.
- The unique role of cancer survivors as powerful voices of influence.
- Practical, approachable ways to apply lifestyle medicine in daily life.
- Simple strategies for sharing this knowledge and creating a community-wide ripple effect of health.
- Ways to partner with organizations like the American Cancer Society to expand community health initiatives.
Dr. Faith Nyong
Nurse researcher & faith community nurse · Founder, Fox Valley Faith & Health Network
Dr. Nyong has emerged as a beacon of health and wellness within the African American community. She founded the Fox Valley Faith & Health Network, establishing health ministries in 15 churches that provide cancer-prevention education and support for healthy lifestyle change. Her work has featured on ABC-7 and WGN-9; she has moderated an American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network discussion on inclusion in clinical trials and been invited to Washington, DC five times to advocate for clinical-trial access. She co-authored "A Whole Food Plant-Based Program in an African American Faith-Based Population" with Rochester Lifestyle Medicine, and has received the City of Aurora Mayoral Health Care Hero Award and recognition from Congressman Bill Foster.
