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Regan L. Bailey, PhD, MPH, RD (she/her/hers)

Director, Institute for Connecting Nutrition and Health
Florida State University
Department of Nutrition Science
Tallahassee, Florida, United States

Regan Bailey is Director of the Institute for Connecting Nutrition and Health (ICON-Health) and a Professor of Behavioral Science and Social Medicine at Florida State University. Before this she was a Distinguished Professor of Nutrition at Texas A&M University. Dr. Bailey previously served as a Professor of Nutrition Science at Purdue University, where she held the title of Faculty Scholar with Showalter Distinction. While at Purdue she was also the Scientific Director of the Diet Assessment Center within the Indiana Clinical and Translational Science Institute. She began her academic career as a civil servant at the U.S. National Institutes of Health as a Nutritional Epidemiologist and Director of Career Development within Office of Dietary Supplements.

Her research program utilizes best practices for characterization of nutritional status, improvement of dietary assessment, and chronic disease risk using a life course approach. Through her research team’s work, they identified nutrition risk in population subgroups including gender, sex, ancestral origin, degree of urbanicity, age, life stage, food security status, socio-economic measures, and disease states. This research has identified the need for population-specific, interventions and public health policy, and supported the need for greater precision in nutrition. She is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine and was recently appointed as a Fellow of the American Society for Nutrition.

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