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
khpanarella@ucanr.edu

http://ucanr.edu/sites/YFC/

Also in:
UC Master Food Preserver Program
Expanded Food Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP)
Nutrition

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.

Areas of Expertise (click to see all ANR academics with this expertise)

Bibliography

Peer Reviewed

Shilts, M. K., Diaz Rios, L. K., Panarella, K. H., Styne, D. M., Lanoue, L. L., Drake, C. M., Ontai, L., & Townsend, M. S. (2021). Feasibility of Colocating a Nutrition Education Program into a Medical Clinic Setting to Facilitate Pediatric Obesity Prevention. Journal of Primary Care & Community Health. Vol 12. https://doi.org/10.1177/21501327211009695
Townsend, Marilyn S.; Rios, L. Karina Diaz, et al.; Panarella, Katherine . (2020). Designing Retrospective Evaluation Tools for Limited-Literacy Adults. Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior. 52:6, 658-662.
Townsend, Marilyn; Shilts, Mical; Ontai, Lenna; Drake, Christiana; Lanoue, Louise; Styne, Dennis; Keim, Nancy; Diaz Rios, Karina; Panarella, Katherine 2018). Obesity Risk, Parenting and Diet Quality Tools for Hispanic Families with Preschoolers: EFNEP, Head Start, Medical Clinic-Year 3. Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior. 50:7, S108. July/ August. https://www.jneb.org/article/S1499-4046(18)30446-9/abstract
Townsend, Marilyn; Shilts, Mical; Ontai, Lenna; Drake, Christiana; Lanoue, Louise; Styne, Dennis; Allen, Lindsay; Diaz Rios, Karina; Panarella, Katherine (2017). Obesity Risk, Parenting and Diet Quality Tools for Hispanic Families with Preschoolers: EFNEP, Head Start, Medical Clinic-Year 2. Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior. 49:7, S120-S121. July/ August. https://www.jneb.org/article/S1499-4046(17)30376-7/abstract
Townsend, Marilyn; Shilts, Mical; Ontai, Lenna; Drake, Christiana; Lanoue, Louise; Styne, Dennis; Keim, Nancy; Diaz Rios, Karina; Panarella, Katherine. (2016). Obesity Risk, Parenting and Diet Quality Tools for Hispanic Families with Preschoolers: EFNEP, Head Start, Medical Clinic-Year 3. Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior. 48:7, S132. July/ August. https://www.jneb.org/article/S1499-4046(16)30492-4/abstract

ANR Workgroup Associations

California Communities and Food Systems - Member
Families with Young Children - Member

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