Scientific Advisory Committee
Nutrition programming for Worlds of Healthy Flavors initiatives is led by an esteemed group of nutrition and health researchers from leading academic institutions in the United States.
Chairman
Walter Willett, MD, DrPH, Chairman, Department of Nutrition and Fredrick John Stare Professor of Epidemiology and Nutrition, Departments of Nutrition and Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health; Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; and author, Eat, Drink and Be Healthy: The Harvard Medical School Guide to Healthy Eating (Boston, MA)
Members
Lawrence J Appel, MD, MPH, Professor of Medicine, Epidemiology, and International Health (Human Nutrition), Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions; Vice Chairman, American Heart Association Nutrition Committee (Baltimore, MD)
Frank Hu, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Nutrition and Epidemiology, Department of Nutrition, and Assistant Professor of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard School of Public Health (Boston, MA)
Janet King, PhD, RD, Senior Scientist, Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute; Professor Emerita, Department of Nutritional Sciences and Toxicology, University of California at Berkeley; Adjunct Professor, Department of Nutrition and Department of Internal Medicine, University of California at Davis; and Chair, 2005 U.S. Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee (Oakland, CA)
Ronald Krauss, MD, Director of Atherosclerosis Research at Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute; Senior Scientist in the Life Sciences Division of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; Adjunct Professor, Department of Nutritional Sciences, University of California at Berkeley; and Chairman, Nutrition Committee and founder and Chairman, Council on Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Metabolism, American Heart Association (Oakland, CA)
Penny Kris-Etherton, PhD, RD, Distinguished Professor of Nutritional Sciences, Pennsylvania State University; member, 2005 U.S. Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee; and member, Institute of Medicine's Panel on Dietary Reference Intakes for Macronutrients, National Academy of Sciences (University Park, PA)
Lawrence Kushi, ScD, Associate Director for Etiology and Prevention Research, Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente; and Adjunct Professor of Nutrition, Columbia University (Oakland, CA)
David Ludwig, MD, PhD, Director, Obesity Program, Assistant in Medicine (Endocrinology), and Associate Director, General Clinical Research Center, Children's Hospital Boston; and Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School; and author Ending the Food Fight: Guide Your Child to a Healthy Weight in a Fast Food/Fake Food World (Boston, MA)
Eric Rimm, ScD, Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Nutrition, Departments of Epidemiology and Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health; and Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School (Boston, MA)
Frank Sacks, MD, Professor of Cardiovascular Disease Prevention, Department of Nutrition, and Associate Professor of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard School of Public Health; and member, American Heart Association Nutrition Committee (Boston, MA)