Hello and welcome to Sigma Nutrition Radio. This is episode 581 of the podcast. My name is Danny Lennon.

You are very welcome to the show. Today we're going to be talking all about public nutrition policy

and we're going to be looking at how that has potential to shape population health, some of the

examples of nutrition policy. we're going to look at

that pipeline that goes from getting research done all the way into enacting and implementing

policy, hopefully successfully.

And then take a look at some of the barriers that sometimes prevent that from happening,

some of those key failure points and why even in some situations we actually have good

evidence for a potential policy that doesn't actually end up being either put into policy

or that is there, but it doesn't get implemented the way that it was intended.

So we're going to look at some examples of these.

And to do that, I'm going to be talking to Emily Callahan, who runs a consultancy that helps national health and science organizations evaluate and communicate research to help hopefully advance policies that promote population health.

She primarily supports the Food is Medicine Institute at the Friedman School of

Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University, where she serves as the Institute's Director

of Policy Strategy. And within that role, she helps plan and execute a strategic vision for

informing and driving federal policy change across some of those key priority areas.

And so we're going to take a look at some of those examples, some of the things that are

currently going on within the context of the US.

We'll look at some other global examples of successful nutrition policies, as well as situations

where there are barriers to be overcome.

And what all this means for all of us and how we think about population health.

So I hope this is going to be a particularly interesting as well as very useful episode for all of you.

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