The senior program advisory panel for Healthy Eating Research is a group of individuals with expertise in areas relevant to the Healthy Eating Research agenda. The senior program advisory panel assists in strategic planning, review of the research proposals and making funding recommendations to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Shiriki Kumanyika, Ph.D., M.P.H. serves as chair of the panel.

• Guadalupe X. "Suchi" Ayala, Ph.D., M.P.H.
• Frank J. Chaloupka, Ph.D.
• Steven Gortmaker, Ph.D.
• Shiriki Kumanyika, Ph.D., M.P.H.