Dear Colleagues:
Our ANR Strategic Vision was developed to address the numerous complex challenges facing California. Nutrition is one of the more complex problems, ranging from overnutrition to undernutrition, both linked to social-economic, science-health literacy, ethnic-cultural influences and individual and environmental barriers. The nutrition landscape can be improved through research, education and policy.
To address the critical nutrition issues that are impacting California, our nation and the world, ANR is launching the University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources Nutrition Policy Institute (NPI). This unit will work closely with the Youth, Families and Communities Statewide Program, which implements Cooperative Extension education and research programs systemwide, integrating with our Strategic Initiatives. NPI will provide nutrition policy leadership built from our numerous ongoing research and education activities. This group will work in synergy with research and outreach efforts being conducted in Davis and Berkeley campus departments and colleges and throughout the UC system.
ANR has begun recruitment for a Cooperative Extension specialist to serve as the inaugural director, providing leadership and operational management of NPI. We seek a visionary leader who can bring together a variety of diverse partners and stakeholders to successfully compete for extramural funding at state and national levels. The director will serve as a key ANR spokesperson on nutrition and health-related issues and a collaborator who can promote interdisciplinary efforts in nutrition research with other UC campus-based researchers, USDA’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture and other federal and state nutrition programs, Cooperative Extension community-based nutrition education programs and the ANR Strategic Initiative leaders.
Ideal candidates will have a Ph.D. with experience in promoting interdisciplinary efforts in nutrition education, research and policy at different levels. The NPI director will be based in Oakland, travel weekly to the new ANR Headquarters in Davis and report to Associate Vice President Bill Frost. The full position description is posted on the ANR website at http://ucanr.edu/Jobs/Jobs_990/?jobnum=484.
Barbara Allen-Diaz
Vice President
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