| Biography |
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| Marion Nestle is Paulette Goddard Professor in the Department of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health at New York University, which she chaired from 1988-2003. Her degrees include a Ph.D. in molecular biology and an M.P.H. in public health nutrition, both from the University of California, Berkeley. Her first faculty position was in the Department of Biology at Brandeis University. From 1976-86 she was Associate Dean of the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) School of Medicine, where she taught nutrition to medical students, residents, and practicing physicians, and directed a nutrition education center sponsored by the American Cancer Society. From 1986-88, she was senior nutrition policy advisor in the Department of Health and Human Services and managing editor of the 1988 Surgeon General’s Report on Nutrition and Health. She has been a member of the FDA Food Advisory Committee and Science Board, the USDA/DHHS 1995 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee, and American Cancer Society committees that issue dietary guidelines for cancer prevention. Her research focuses on the analysis of scientific, social, cultural, and economic factors that influence dietary recommendations and practices. She is the author of Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health (2002) and Safe Food: Bacteria, Biotechnology, and Bioterrorism (2003), both from University of California Press. In 2003, Food Politics won awards from the Association for American Publishers (outstanding professional and scholarly title in nursing and allied health), James Beard Foundation (literary), and World Hunger Year (Harry Chapin media). Safe Food won the Steinhardt School of Education’s Griffiths Research Award in 2004. Her latest book, What to Eat (North Point Press, a Division of Farrar, Straus & Giroux), was published in May 2006. |
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| Education |
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- Ph.D. University of California Berkeley, 1968
- M.P.H. University of California Berkeley, 1986
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| Awards |
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| 2007 |
- James Beard Foundation/Kitchenaid Book Award Best Reference book: What to Eat
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| 2005 |
- American Association for the Advancement of Science, Elected Fellow
- National Committee for Quality Assurance 2005 Health Quality Award
- American Society for Nutritional Sciences, Elected Fellow
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| 2004 |
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| 2003 |
- James Beard Foundation Who’s Who in Food and Beverage in America (lifetime achievement)
- Vanity Fair magazine, Food Snob’s Dictionary (entry)
- San Francisco Chronicle best books of 2003, Safe Food
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Marion Nestle, PhD, MPH |
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