Marion Nestle

Marion Nestle
Born	1936 (age 80–81)
Residence	West Village, Manhattan, New York
Citizenship	American
Institutions	New York University
Alma mater	University of California, Berkeley
Thesis	Purification and properties of a nuclease from Serratia marcescens (1968)
Known for	Public health advocacy, opposition to unhealthy foods, promotion of food studies as an academic field

Marion Nestle, Ph.D, M.P.H. (born 1936) is the Paulette Goddard Professor of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health at New York University. She is also a professor of Sociology at NYU and a visiting professor of Nutritional Sciences at Cornell University.

Nestle received her BA from UC Berkeley, Phi Beta Kappa, after attending school there from 1954-1959. Her degrees include a Ph.D in molecular biology and an M.P.H. in public health nutrition, both from the University of California, Berkeley.

She did postdoctoral work in biochemistry and developmental biology at Brandeis University and later joining the faculty in biology in 1975. Through this professorship, she was assigned a nutrition course to teach and she realized that there was no standardized nutritional requirements and kicked off her interest in nutrition.

From 1976 to 1986, she was associate dean for Human Biology and taught nutrition at the UCSF School of Medicine. From 1986 to 1988, she was senior nutrition policy advisor in the Department of Health and Human Services and editor of the Surgeon General’s Report on Nutrition and Health.

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