Mary T. Story, Ph.D., R.D., is a Professor of Global Health, Family Medicine and Community Health, and Pediatrics at Duke University. For ten years (2014-2024), she was Director of Academic Programs at the Duke Global Health Institute. Prior to starting at Duke in January 2014, 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, University of Minnesota. Since 2005, she has directed the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s national program, Healthy Eating Research, focused on policy, systems, and environmental solutions to improve child nutrition, food and nutrition security, and prevent child obesity, especially among youth from low-income and minority communities. Her research focuses primarily on child and adolescent obesity prevention and nutrition in low-income and minority youth and their families. Much of her research was on American Indian reservations, including Rosebud and Pine Ridge, SD. She has over 500 scientific publications in the area of 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 USDHHS/USDA 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, the 2019 Friends of Albert (Mickey) Stunkard Lifetime Achievement Award, and the 2024 President’s Council on Sports, Fitness, & Nutrition Lifetime Impact Award.