Dr. Mary Story is a Professor in the Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, and Associate Dean for Student Life and Leadership in the School of Public Health and an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Pediatrics School of Medicine at the University of Minnesota. She is Director of the National Program Office for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Healthy Eating Research program that supports research on environmental and policy strategies to promote healthy eating among children to prevent childhood obesity. Dr. Story’s Ph.D. is in nutrition science and her interests are in the area of child and adolescent nutrition, and childhood obesity prevention. Dr. Story has conducted numerous school and community-based obesity prevention studies and has been principal investigator on several NIH grants. She has over 385 scientific publications on child nutrition and obesity prevention. Dr. Story was a member of the Institute of Medicine, Committee on Food Marketing and the Diets of Children and Youth; Committee on Nutrition Standards for Foods in Schools; Committee on Childhood Obesity Prevention Actions for Local Governments; and is currently on the IOM Standing Committee for Childhood Obesity Prevention and the Committee on Examination of Front-of-Package Nutrition Rating Systems and Symbols. She has received numerous awards for her research and work in the field of child and adolescent nutrition.