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Advisory Committees

African Heritage Diet Advisors

Constance Brown-Riggs, MSEd, RD, CDE, CDN

ADA National Spokesperson, Author

Angela Ginn-Meadow, RD, LDN, CDE

Fit4D Nutrition Coach

Allan J. Johnson, PhD

Associate Dean, Professor and Chairman, Howard University

Robert Hall, PhD

Associate Professor of African American Studies and History, Northeastern University

Jessica B. Harris, PhD

Cookbook Author, Professor, Queens College, CUNY

Kristie Lancaster, PhD

Associate Professor of Nutrition, Steinhart School of Culture, Education and Human Development, NYU

Vivien Morris, MS, RD, MPH, LDN

Dietitian, Director of Community Initiatives for the NFL Program, Boston Medical Center

Frederick Douglass Opie, PhD

Author, Professor of History and Foodways, Babson College

Tambra Raye Stevenson

Food Justice Advocate, NATIVSOL

Toni Tipton-Martin

Journalist, Founder of SANDE, Community Activist

Katherine Tucker, PhD

Professor, Director of the Center for Population Health, University of Massachusetts Lowell

Gail Pettiford Willett

Nutrition and Health Coach

Walter Willett, MD, DrPH

Chair And Frederick J. Stare Professor, Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health

Akua Woolbright, PhD

Senior Healthy Eating And Wellness Educator, Whole Foods Market

Asian Heritage Diet Advisors

Frank Hu, MD, PhD

Chair, Department of Nutrition, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Lawrence H. Kushi, Sc.D.

Director of Scientific Policy, Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Northern California

Ka Hei Karen Lau, MS RD, LDN, CDE

Registered Dietitian, Joslin Diabetes Center

Xiao Ou Shu, M.D., M.P.H., Ph.D.

Associate Director for Global Health, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center

Rob M. Van Dam, PhD

Professor, National University Of Singapore and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Craig Willcox, MHSC, PhD

Professor of Public Health and Gerontology at Okinawa International University

Anna H. Wu, PhD

Professor of Preventive Medicine, Co-Leader of the Cancer Control Research Program of the Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, and Director of Cancer Research Core of the Southern California Environmental Health Sciences Center

Madhu Gadia M.S., R.D.N., CDE

Nutrition and Diabetes Counselor, Speaker, and Author

Latin American Heritage Advisors

Hannia Campos, PhD

Senior Lecturer, Harvard School of Public Health

John P. Foreyt, PhD

Professor of Medicine, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Baylor College of Medicine

Chef Robert E. Graham, MD, MPH

Co-Founder and Chief Medical Officer, FRESH Medicine

Sylvia Klinger, DBA, MS, RD, LDN, CPT

Founder and President, Hispanic Food Communications Inc.

Josiemer Mattei, PhD, MPH

Donald and Sue Pritzker Associate Professor of Nutrition, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health

Jeffrey Pilcher, PhD

Professor of History and Food Studies – University of Toronto Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Ana Krista Linares, MPH, RD

Owner, Nutrition con Sabor

L. Stephen Velasquez, MA

Curator, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution

Steven Alvarez, PhD

Associate Professor, Department of English, St. John’s University, Queens, NY

Mediterranean Diet Culinary Advisors

Mary Ann Esposito

Cookbook Author and Television Host

Nancy Harmon Jenkins

Cookbook Author

Steven Jenkins

Author and Cheese Expert

Aglaia Kremezi

Cookbook Author and Culinary Instructor, Kea Artisanal

Amy Riolo

Chef, Cuisine and Culture Expert, and Educator

Michele Scicolone

Cookbook Author and Writer

David Shalleck

Chef and Television Culinary Producer

Paula Wolfert

Cookbook Author

Mediterranean Diet Scientific Advisors

Michael Crawford, PhD, CBiol., FRSB, FRCPath

Director, Institute of Brain Chemistry and Human Nutrition, London Metropolitan University

Connie Diekman, M.Ed, RD, LD, FADA


Director of University Nutrition, Washington University St. Louis

Curtis Ellison, MD

Professor of Medicine and Public Health, Boston University School of Medicine

Marta Garaulet Aza, PhD

Professor of Physiology and Nutrition, Department of Physiology, University of Murcia; Visiting Professor at Harvard Medical School; Visiting Professor at Tufts University

Miguel Ángel Martinez-Gonzalez, MPH, PhD, MD

Chair, Department of Public Health, University of Navarra

Dariush Mozafarrian, MD, DrPH

Dean, Tufts School of Nutrition Science and Policy

Jane K. Pearson, MD

Medical Director, Preventive Cardiology and Cardiac Rehabilitation, Dean Health Systems and St Mary’s Medical Center

Nikos Scarmeas, MD, MSC

Assistant Professor of Neurology, Columbia University Medical Center

Oldways Cheese Coalition Advisors

Carrie Blakeman

Managing Director, Rogers Collection

Ruth Flore

Oldways Cheese Coalition Outreach Advisor

Jennifer Kast

Coordinator, Cheesemaking Educational Programs, Neal’s Dairy Yard

Will Studd

Author, Documentary Host, and International Cheese Expert

Dennis D’Amico, PhD

Associate Professor, College of Agriculture, Health and Natural Resources, University of Connecticut

Catherine Donnelly, PhD

Professor Emeritus, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, University of Vermont

Heather Paxson, PhD

Program Head, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Anthropology, Margaret MacVicar Faculty Fellow, Department of Anthropology, MIT

Vegetarian & Vegan Diet Advisors

Kathy McManus, MS, RD, LDN


Director, Department of Nutrition; Director, Dietetic Internship, Brigham and Women’s Hospital

David J.A. Jenkins, MD, PhD, DSc

Professor and Canada Research Chair in Nutrition And Metabolism, Department of Nutritional Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University Of Toronto

Mollie Katzen

Cookbook Author, Illustrator

Cyril W.C. Kendall, PhD

Research Associate, Department of Nutritional Sciences, Faculty Of Medicine, University Of Toronto

Reed Mangels, PhD, RD, LD, FADA

Adjunct Associate Professor, Nutrition Department, University of Massachusetts

Virginia Messina, MPH, RD

Adjunct Assistant Professor, Loma Linda University

Sudha Raj, PhD, RD

Director of the Graduate Program in Nutrition Science, Department of Public Health, Food Studies and Nutrition, Syracuse University

Joan Sabaté, MD, DrPH

Chair and Professor, Department of Nutrition, School of Public Health, Loma Linda University

Frank Sacks, MD

Professor of Cardiovascular Disease Prevention, Harvard School of Public Health

Whole Grains Council Culinary Advisors

Steven Petusevsky

Recipe & Menu Development Expert

Lorna Sass

Cookbook Author

Michael Holleman

Chef Consultant/Owner, MBH Culinary LLC

Robin Asbell

Chef and Cookbook Author

Kathryn Conrad

Chef and Senior Food Stylist, Reader’s Digest Association

Judith Finlayson

Cookbook Author

Ellie Krieger, RD

New York Times Bestselling Author And TV Host

Paul Lynch

Executive Chef

Cary Neff

Vice President of Culinary, Morrison Management Services

Joel Schaefer

Co-Founder, Your Allergy Chefs / Product Development Manager, Princess Cruises

Maria Speck

Cookbook Author

Whole Grains Council Scientific Advisors

David Jacobs, PhD

Mayo Professor of Public Health in Epidemiology and Community Health, University of Minnesota School of Public Health

Joseph M. Awika, PhD

Assistant Professor, Texas A&M University

R. Gary Fulcher, PhD

Emeritus Professor of Food Science and Nutrition, University Of Minnesota

Emily Ho, PhD

Endowed Chair and Director, Linus Pauling Institute, Oregon State University

Gary Hou, PhD

Managing Director, Flour Business Unit, SPC Group

Julie Miller Jones, PhD, LL, CNS, CFS, FAACCI, FICC

Professor Emeritus, St. Catherine’s University

Rui Hai Liu, MD, PhD

Professor of Food Science, Department of Food Science, Cornell University

Simin Liu, MD, ScD

Professor of Epidemiology and of Medicine, Brown University

Nicola Mckeown, PhD

Research Professor, Sargent College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, Boston University

Chris Miller, PhD

Director of Wheat Quality Research, Heartland Plant Innovations

Robert L. Myers, PhD

Regional Director of North Central SARE Extension Programs, University of Missouri

Keagan Ringling, PhD

Business Development Manager, Plant Pathways Company