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About Program Staff Mary Story, PhD, RD
About Program Staff Mary Story, PhD, RD
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 Mary Story, PhD, RD Program Director
Dr. Mary Story is a Professor in the Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, and Senior Associate Dean of Academic and Student Affairs in the School of Public Health, University of Minnesota and an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Pediatrics School of Medicine. She is Director of the national program office for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Healthy Eating Research program that supports research on environmental and policy strategies to promote healthy eating among children to prevent childhood obesity. Dr. Story's PhD is in nutrition science and her interests are in the area of child and adolescent nutrition, and childhood obesity prevention. Dr. Story has conducted numerous school and community-based obesity prevention studies and has been principal investigator on several NIH grants. She has over 400 scientific publications on child nutrition and obesity prevention. Dr. Story was a member of the Institute of Medicine Committees on Food Marketing and the Diets of Children and Youth; Nutrition Standards for Foods in Schools; Childhood Obesity Prevention Actions for Local Governments; Examination of Front-of-Package Nutrition Rating Systems and Symbols and is currently on the IOM Standing Committee for Childhood Obesity Prevention. She has received numerous awards for her research and work in the field of child and adolescent nutrition.
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