Danielle Lee

Danielle Lee is a registered dietitian and public health nutritionist working at the UC ANR Nutrition Policy Institute (NPI).1 She holds the position of Director of Communications & Research Engagement at NPI.2 Her work focuses on increasing access to healthy and sustainable food, with particular emphasis on healthy beverage policies, food waste, early childhood feeding, and federally funded food programs such as WIC and CACFP.12

Danielle's educational background includes:

• A.S. in Biological Sciences from Reedley College (2006)
• B.S. in Clinical Nutrition from the University of California, Davis (2008)
• M.P.H. in Public Health Nutrition from the University of California, Berkeley (2015)
• R.D. certification from California State University, Northridge (2016)1

At NPI, Danielle manages internal and external communications, including serving as the lead editor and writer of the NPI Research to Action quarterly email news brief, blog manager for NPI news posts, and NPI website manager.1 Her research interests include healthy beverage policies, early childhood feeding, and federally funded food programs.2

Danielle's areas of expertise include healthy lifestyle, human nutrition, nutrition education and behavior, nutrition and hunger in the population, obesity prevention, community food security, and healthy families and communities.1