2020 Committee Members | Dietary Guidelines for Americans

2020 Advisory Committee Members

The Departments of Agriculture (USDA) and Health and Human Services (HHS) announced the appointment of 20 nationally recognized experts to serve on the 2020 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee. The independent Advisory Committee will review scientific evidence on topics and questions identified by the Departments and will provide a report on their findings to the Secretaries. The Committee’s review, along with public and agency comments on their scientific report, will help inform USDA and HHS’ development of the 2020-2025 Dietary Guidelines for Americans.

Barbara Schneeman, PhD University of California, Davis Chair	Ronald Kleinman, MD Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School Vice Chair
Jamy Ard, MD Wake Forest School of Medicine	Regan Bailey, PhD, MPH, RD Purdue University
Lydia Bazzano, MD, PhD Tulane University and Ochsner Health System	Carol Boushey, PhD, MPH, RD University of Hawaii
Teresa Davis, PhD Baylor College of Medicine	Kathryn Dewey, PhD University of California, Davis
Sharon Donovan, PhD, RD University of Illinois, Urbana	Steven Heymsfield, MD Louisiana State University, Pennington Biomedical Research Center
Heather Leidy, PhD University of Texas at Austin (summer 2019)	Richard Mattes, PhD, MPH, RD Purdue University
Elizabeth Mayer-Davis, PhD, RD University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	Timothy Naimi, MD, MPH Boston University
Rachel Novotny, PhD, RDN, LD University of Hawaii	Joan Sabaté, DrPH, MD Loma Linda University
Linda Snetselaar, PhD, RD University of Iowa	Jamie Stang, PhD, MPH, RD University of Minnesota
Elsie Taveras, MD, MPH Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, and Harvard Chan School or Public Health	Linda Van Horn, PhD, RDN, LD Northwestern University