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Amy Yaroch, PhD

Executive Director, Center for Nutrition and Health Impact

Amy Yaroch is the executive director of the Center for Nutrition and Health Impact (CNHI), formerly the Gretchen Swanson Center for Nutrition. She also holds a special dean’s appointment as professor in the Department of Health Promotion at the University of Nebraska Medical Center. Amy has over 25 years of experience leading the implementation and evaluation of public health nutrition programs.

At CNHI, Amy leads initiatives to address food and nutrition insecurity, food systems, healthy eating, active living, and process and outcome evaluation. She is also the project director for the GusNIP National Training, Technical Assistance, Evaluation, and Information Center.

Prior to joining CNHI in 2009, Amy was a program director and behavioral scientist at the National Cancer Institute where she focused on nutrition, dietary assessment, survey development, obesity prevention, and skin cancer prevention. Amy has co-authored over 200 papers and four book chapters in her area of expertise.

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