Mary Story
Director for Academic Programs, Duke Global Health Institute
Professor of Global Health, and Family Medicine and Community Health
Director, Healthy Eating Research National Program, RWJF
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Mary Story
Director for Academic Programs, Duke Global Health Institute
Professor of Global Health, and Family Medicine and Community Health
Director, Healthy Eating Research National Program, RWJF
Mary Story (she/her/hers), PhD, RD is a Professor, Global Health and Family Medicine and Community Health. She also serves as the Director for Academic Programs in the Institute. She brings to this position 13 years serving in leadership positions at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health, including as Senior Associate Dean for Academic and Student Affairs at the School from 2011-2013. Mary is a leading scholar in the field of child and adolescent nutrition and child obesity prevention. She has published 450 scientific articles in this field. She also is director of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation national program Healthy Eating Research. She has received numerous national awards for her work and is a member of the National Academy of Medicine.
Dr. Story has devoted her research career to the study of child and adolescent nutrition and childhood obesity. Her research has focused primarily on nutrition and diet-related issues of low-income and minority youth and their families, and environmental and behavioral community-based obesity prevention interventions for youth. Dr. Story has conducted several NIH funded school and community-based obesity prevention trials. She was the Principal Investigator on the NIH funded, Pathways study, a multi-site school-based obesity intervention for American Indian youth residing on seven Indian reservations; and the NIH/NHLBI funded phase I multi-site obesity prevention study for African American preadolescent girls, The Girls Health Enrichment Multi-Site Studies (GEMS), which developed, implemented and evaluated an after-school obesity prevention program for African American girls ages 8-10. She was PI on Bright Start, a NIH funded school and family-based obesity prevention randomized community trial study on the Pine Ridge reservation with kindergarten and first grade children. She has been a co-investigator on several NIH grants such as Project EAT a longitudinal study of factors influencing diet and obesity in adolescents and young adults, New Moves an obesity prevention trial with adolescent girls and several environmental interventions to improve healthy eating, including several pricing interventions. Since 2005, Dr. Story has directed the Healthy Eating Research program, a national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation that supports research on policy, systems ad environmental strategies to promote healthy eating among children to improve nutrition and prevent childhood obesity.
Projects
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Supporting Commissioned Research through Healthy Eating Research
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Developing evidence-based recommendations for promoting nutrition and healthy feeding patterns for children from birth through 24 months
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Healthy Eating Research: Building Evidence to Prevent Childhood Obesity
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Supplement to Healthy Eating Research to Support Commissioned Research on In-Store Marketing and Early Care and Education
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Patterns of Adolescent Food Intake: Consequences and Contextual Influences
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Policy process implementation and international dissemination of maternal and infant health and child nutrition in China
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Policy Process, Implementation Experience, Historical Lessons and International Dissemination of Maternal and Infant Health and Child Nutrition in China
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Policy Process, Implementation Experience, Historical Lessons and International Dissemination of Maternal and Infant Health and Child Nutrition in China
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Publications
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Labisi T, Preciado M, Voorhees A, Castillo A, Lopez K, Economos C, et al. An exploration of customers’ perceptions, preferences, experiences, and feasibility of offering standardized portions in restaurants (Accepted). International Journal of Gastronomy and Food Science. 2023 Dec 1;34.Dietz WH, Brownson RC, Douglas CE, Dreyzehner JJ, Goetzel RZ, Gortmaker SL, et al. Chronic disease prevention: Tobacco, physical activity, and nutrition for a healthy start. In: Vital Directions for Health & Health Care: An Initiative of the National Academy of Medicine. 2023. p. 111–33.Neshteruk CD, Skinner AC, Counts J, D’Agostino EM, Frerichs L, Howard J, et al. Translating knowledge into action for child obesity treatment in partnership with Parks and Recreation: study protocol for a hybrid type II trial. Implement Sci. 2023 Feb 24;18(1):6.Duke NN, Campbell SD, Sauls DL, Stout R, Story MT, Austin T, et al. Prevalence of food insecurity among students attending four Historically Black Colleges and Universities. J Am Coll Health. 2023 Jan;71(1):87–93.
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