Kevin Hall

Kevin Hall, PhD, is an internationally recognized expert in human nutrition, metabolism, obesity, and neuroscience. For more than two decades, Dr Hall was the Integrative Physiology Section Chief at the National Institutes of Health where he made groundbreaking discoveries about how our environment shapes dietary behaviours, and how nutrition and physical activity affect human metabolism and body weight regulation. His transdisciplinary research has combined tightly controlled metabolic ward trials, advanced neuroimaging, and mathematical modelling to generate mechanistic insights into the drivers of obesity and diet-related noncommunicable diseases. Dr Hall has published more than 150 scientific articles and is a sought-after public speaker, having delivered more than 250 presentations around the globe. Dr Hall has twice received the Director’s Award from the US National Institutes of Health and has also received the E.V. McCullum Award from the American Society for Nutrition, the Lilly Scientific Achievement Award from The Obesity Society, and the Guyton Award for Excellence in Integrative Physiology from the American Physiological Society. His work is regularly featured in major media outlets including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Economist, CNN, BBC, and network television. Dr Hall has also been featured in several podcasts and documentaries about food, nutrition, metabolism, and obesity and he is co-author of the book Food Intelligence: The science of how food both nourishes and harms us.