Jamie Sue Dollahite, PhD Professor of Community Nutrition, Division of Nutritional Sciences , ACADEMIC BACKGROUND INSTITUTION DEGREE DATE University of Texas at Austin BS Home Economics Nutrition Concentration 1970 – Dietetic Internship 1971 MS Human Nutrition 1974 University of Texas at Austin PhD Biological Sciences Major in Nutrition 1990 – EXPERTISE/ACADEMIC EMPHASIS My integrated research and Cooperative Extension programming focuses on nutrition education for income audiences with two areas of emphasis: program development and evaluation, and translational research aimed at prevention of childhood obesity through education of parents and changes in home and community environments that make healthy choices easier. ACCOMPLISHMENTS IN COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT AND OUTREACH (last 10 years) NATIONAL SERVICE AND LEADERSHIP NAS/IOM Review of WIC Food Packages Consensus Committee. Invited Presentation for Workshop: Nutrition Education Produces Behavior Change. July 29, 2016. USDA/NIFA webNEERS workgroup to develop an online monitoring and evaluation system to track policy, systems, and environmental change activities conducted in conjunction with direct nutrition education 2015-present USDA/NIFA SNAP-Ed Program Development Team 2013-2016 USDA-NIFA Predoctoral and Postdoctoral Fellowships Program, review panel member, 2013 NAS/IOM Planning Meeting on Nutrition Education Standards 2013 NAS/IOM Committee on Examination of Food Resources and SNAP Allotments. Public release January 17, 2013. USDA/CNPP National Evidence Library Systematic Review Expert Group conducting a systematic review to determine the effectiveness of nutrition education in improving nutrition-related behavior among children. 2010-2011 USDA/NIFA EFNEP Policy Task Force to revise/update national program policy, including the recognition of the importance of the socio-ecological model in healthy food choice and explicitly describing how EFNEP educators can put effort into environmental changes, as well as into direct participant education. 2008-2011 USDA/NIFA EFNEP Work Group to Develop Outcome Indicators and Evaluation Instrument for tracking community level environmental change work 2011 USDA/CSREES Community Nutrition Education Logic Model Work Group 2003-2005; reviewer for revised model 2013 STATE LEADERSHIP for COOPERATIVE Food and Nutrition Education EXTENSION’s Expanded Program (EFNEP) and Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Education (SNAP-Ed) – Coordinate funds from different sources to support core program areas and evaluation of programs: parent education, including child obesity prevention; prevention of chronic disease including diabetes and heart disease; maternal and child nutrition; youth nutrition; food safety; family resource management
Jamie Sue Dollahite, PhD Professor of Community Nutrition, Division of Nutritional Sciences , ACADEMIC BACKGROUND INSTITUTION DEGREE DATE University of Texas at Austin BS Home Economics – Nutrition Concentration 1970 Dietetic Internship 1971 MS Human Nutrition 1974 University of Texas at Austin PhD Biological Sciences – Major in Nutrition 1990 EXPERTISE/ACADEMIC EMPHASIS My integrated research and Cooperative Extension programming focuses on nutrition education for audiences with two areas of emphasis: program development and evaluation, and translational research aimed at prevention of childhood obesity through education of parents and changes in home and community environments that make healthy choices easier. ACCOMPLISHMENTS IN COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT AND OUTREACH (last 10 years) NATIONAL SERVICE AND LEADERSHIP NAS/IOM Review of WIC Food Packages Consensus Committee. Invited Presentation for Workshop: Nutrition Education Produces Behavior Change. July 29, 2016. USDA/NIFA webNEERS workgroup to develop an online monitoring and evaluation system to track policy, systems, and environmental change activities conducted in conjunction with direct nutrition education 2015-present USDA/NIFA SNAP-Ed Program Development Team 2013-2016 USDA-NIFA Predoctoral and Postdoctoral Fellowships Program, review panel member, 2013 NAS/IOM Planning Meeting on Nutrition Education Standards 2013 NAS/IOM Committee on Examination of Food Resources and SNAP Allotments. Public release January 17, 2013. USDA/CNPP National Evidence Library Systematic Review Expert Group conducting a systematic review to determine the effectiveness of nutrition education in improving nutrition-related behavior among children. 2010-2011 USDA/NIFA EFNEP Policy Task Force to revise/update national program policy, including the recognition of the importance of the socio-ecological model in healthy food choice and explicitly describing how EFNEP educators can put effort into environmental changes, as well as into direct participant education. 2008-2011 USDA/NIFA EFNEP Work Group to Develop Outcome Indicators and Evaluation Instrument for tracking community level environmental change work 2011 USDA/CSREES Community Nutrition Education Logic Model Work Group 2003-2005; reviewer for revised model 2013 STATE LEADERSHIP for COOPERATIVE EXTENSION’s Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP) and Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program – Education (SNAP-Ed) Coordinate funds from different sources to support core program areas and evaluation of programs: parent education, including child obesity prevention; prevention of chronic disease including diabetes and heart disease; maternal and child nutrition; youth nutrition; food safety; family resource management income