Professor Kathryn Dewey

Kathryn Dewey, Ph.D., is Distinguished Professor Emerita of Nutrition at the University of California, Davis. She was a co-founder of the UC Davis Program in International and Community Nutrition (now the Institute for Global Nutrition) and served as its Director from 2007 to 2018.

Her main area of expertise is maternal and child nutrition in vulnerable populations, with an emphasis on interventions to prevent malnutrition during the first 1000 days. She has led numerous randomized trials and cohort studies in the United States, Mexico, Costa Rica, Honduras, Guatemala, Peru, Ghana, Malawi, and Bangladesh.

She has an extensive record of professional service to WHO, UNICEF, and other organizations during the past 40 years, including membership on the 2020 U.S. Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee and the Board of Directors for the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition. Dr. Dewey has more than 490 publications, ranking in the top one percent by citations in her field in 2018, 2019, and 2021.

She has received several awards, including the Kellogg Prize for International Nutrition, the Macy-György Award from the International Society for Research on Human Milk and Lactation, the E.V. McCollum International Lectureship, and Fellow of the American Society for Nutrition.