Katie Panarella

Director, Nutrition, Family and Consumer Sciences Program & Policy
UC Division of Agriculture & Natural Resources
2801 Second Street
Davis, CA 95618-7774
530-750-1393
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Also in:
UC Master Food Preserver Program
Expanded Food Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP)
Nutrition

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Biography

Katie Panarella is the Director for Nutrition, Family and Consumer Sciences (NFCS) at the University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources (UC ANR) and designated Family and Consumer Sciences (FCS) Program Leader. She is responsible for the Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP) and leads the statewide UC Master Food Preserver Program in addition to administering the CalFresh Healthy Living, UC program. She is programmatically responsible for the NFCS Cooperative Extension advisors. These programs, staff and academics are extending and developing research-based information that promote healthy people and communities, safe food and prosperous Californians. She has a B.S. in Environmental Economics and Policy from UC Berkeley and a dual MS Food Policy and Applied Nutrition and MPH in Nutrition from Tufts University.

Education

MS Food Policy and Applied Nutrition, Tufts University Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy. 2015
MPH Nutrition, Tufts University School of Medicine. 2015

Discipline

Public Health

Specialty

Connecting federal and community-based nutrition education, hunger relief, consumer food safety and obesity prevention programs to empower youth, adults and families to lead healthy lives.

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