Mary Story PhD, RD is Professor of Global Health, and Community and Family Medicine at Duke University. From 2014-2024, she was Director of Education and Academic Programs at the Duke Global Health Institute. She came to Duke University in 2014, prior to that she was Senior Associate Dean for Academic and Student Affairs and Professor in the Division of Epidemiology and Community Health in the School of Public Health at the University of Minnesota. She is Director of Healthy Eating Research, a national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation based at Duke University, that supports research on environmental, systems and policy strategies to promote healthy eating and advance nutrition and health equity among children and families to improve child nutrition, food and nutrition security and prevent child obesity.

Dr. Story’s PhD is in nutrition science and she is a Registered Dietitian (RD) with interests in child and adolescent nutrition, and childhood obesity prevention. Dr. Story has conducted numerous school and community-based nutrition and obesity prevention studies and has been Principal Investigator on several NIH grants. She has over 500 scientific publications in child and adolescent nutrition and obesity. In 2010, she was elected to the Institute of Medicine (now the National Academy of Medicine [NAM]). She was Co-Vice Chair of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s (NASEM’s) Roundtable on Obesity Solutions from 2013-2019. She served on the 2015-2020 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee and served a 6-year term on NASEM’s Food and Nutrition Board. She has received numerous national awards for her research, including The Obesity Society, 2019 Friends of Albert (Mickey) Stunkard Lifetime Achievement Award and the 2024 President’s Council on Sports, Fitness, & Nutrition Lifetime Impact Award.

Email: mary.story@duke.edu