Stacia Johnston

Stacia Johnston is the Director of Health Equity Advancement at the American College of Lifestyle Medicine (ACLM). Her career began fifteen years ago in the health sector, where she worked to support the communications and marketing department at a small breast cancer organization. Overtime, she began to uncover the inequities in healthcare and how historically underserved populations were negatively impacted through poor health outcomes and disproportionate mortality.

Among her many roles at ACLM, Stacia is honored to serve as staff liaison for ACLM’s Health Equity Achieved through Lifestyle Medicine (HEAL) Initiative, which focuses on lifestyle medicine solutions to address lifestyle related chronic disease health disparities. Through community engagement efforts, partnerships with Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) medical schools, and federally qualified health centers, the HEAL Initiative is working to make lifestyle medicine accessible by acknowledging social drivers of health (SDoH) and supporting institutions to advance their practice by adopting lifestyle medicine models help patients navigate (SDoH). In addition, Stacia manages partnerships with minority medical associations and organizations to provide underrepresented in medicine clinicians with training and certification in lifestyle medicine through scholarships designed to diversify the medical workforce.