Mary Story, Ph.D, R.D. Professor
Division of Epidemiology & Community Health
1300 South Second Street, Suite 300
Minneapolis, MN 55454
Phone: (612) 626-8801
Email: story@epi.umn.edu
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Dr. Story is Professor in the Division of Epidemiology and Community Health in the School of Public Health at the University of Minnesota and also holds a joint appointment in the Department of Pediatrics. She is the Director of the National Program Office of the Healthy Eating Research Program funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. She also directs the Maternal and Child Health Bureau Public Health Nutrition and Maternal and Child Nutrition Training Program. Dr. Story has her PhD in nutrition and has worked in the area of child and adolescent nutrition for several years. Her research focuses on community, environmental and family-based interventions with youth for obesity prevention and improving eating patterns, factors influencing eating behaviors of youth, and environmental approaches for improving nutrition. Much of her research is with minority populations. She is currently PI of Bright Start, a NIH/NHLBI funded school-and family-based obesity prevention study with K-1st graders on the pine Ridge Indian reservation in South Dakota. She was also PI for the Pathways Lakota/Minnesota field site of the NIH funded multi-site school based obesity prevention trial with American Indian children.
She has published over 280 peer-reviewed articles, book chapters and books on child and adolescent nutrition. She has been active in national organizations and has served as Chair of the ADA Public Health Nutrition Practice group, and Chair of the Food and Nutrition Section of the American Public Health Association. She is on the editorial board for the Journal of the American Dietetic Association, the Journal of Adolescent Health and Nutrition Today. She serves on many national committees and was the Editor of Bright Futures in Practice: Nutrition Implementation Guide and is currently on the Bright Futures Steering Committee for the American Academy of Pediatrics. She was a member of the Institute of Medicine committee on food marketing and the diets of children and is currently on the Institute of Medicine committee on Nutrition Standards for Foods in Schools. |
