Alison Gustafson, PhD, MPH, RD
The Martin Gatton Foundation Endowed Chair and Professor in the Department of Dietetics and Human Nutrition, College of Agriculture, Food, and Environment and College of Nursing, University of Kentucky
As Director of the Food as Health Alliance in Kentucky, Alison leads the organization's collective mission to build and expand the translational research between clinical and community interventions to target food insecurity as an approach to improve diet-sensitive disease and health outcomes. Dr. Gustafson is the Principal Investigator on a recent American Heart Association Healthcare X Food grant which is utilizing a user-centered design approach to improve the screening and referral process for food is medicine programs. Lastly, she has received $1 million in donations to the Alliance to support building a statewide screening, referral, enrollment, and engagement hub for food is medicine programs across Kentucky.
Dr. Gustafson addresses health disparities through the food insecurity lens to improve policy approaches for those in social safety networks. She has been the PI or Co-Investigator on more than $14 million in grant funding from CDC, NIH, and USDA related to interventions targeting food insecurity and subsequent health outcomes.
