- Author: Pamela Kan-Rice
Ritchie to lead Nutrition Policy Institute
I am pleased to announce that after a nationwide search we have selected Lorrene Ritchie to serve as the inaugural director of the Nutrition Policy Institute (NPI), effective Feb. 18. She will also be a UC Cooperative Extension specialist.
NPI is a new institute within UC ANR, with the mission of improving nutrition and reducing obesity, hunger and chronic disease risk in children and their families in diverse settings. The institute and its director will provide statewide nutrition policy leadership for ANR's research and education activities and will work in synergy with research and outreach efforts being conducted in Davis and Berkeley campus departments and...
- Author: Pamela Kan-Rice
Dear Colleagues:
Our ANR Strategic Vision was developed to address the numerous complex challenges facing California. Nutrition is one of the more complex problems, ranging from overnutrition to undernutrition, both linked to social-economic, science-health literacy, ethnic-cultural influences and individual and environmental barriers. The nutrition landscape can be improved through research, education and policy.
To address the critical nutrition issues that are impacting California, our nation and the world, ANR is launching the University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources Nutrition Policy Institute (NPI). This unit will work closely with the Youth, Families and Communities Statewide Program, which...