Jeanne P. Goldberg, PhD, RD, is the director of the Center on Nutrition Communication and the Graduate Program in Nutrition Communication at the Gerald J. and Dorothy R. Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University.
Goldberg is co-investigator on two major intervention projects that focus on children. The BONES Project is a five-year, NIH-funded intervention to promote bone health in early elementary school children in diverse communities. Shape Up Somerville is an obesity-prevention program for elementary school children and their families funded by CDC. She served as principal investigator on the study that led to the selection of the Food Guide Pyramid. She served as co-principal investigator on Sisters Together: Move More, Eat Better, a five-year, NIH-funded communications project that focused on promoting healthy lifestyles in minority women. She was also principal investigator on a project to develop and evaluate a nutrition curriculum for pediatric nurse practitioners.
Goldberg served as national co-chairwoman of the Summit on Healthy Eating and Active Living in 2001. That conference brought together for the first time a diverse group of nutrition, physical activity, and behavior experts from the public and private sectors with a shared interest in stemming the rising tide of obesity and other chronic diseases that result from poor food choices and sedentary lifestyles. That conference was the first activity of the Partnership to Promote Healthy Eating and Active Living, a nonprofit organization on whose board she continues to serve.
The Center on Nutrition Communication, which she directs, maintains the Tufts University Nutrition Navigator web site, a resource to guide the public to the best nutrition and fitness information on the Internet.
Goldberg is a consultant to the food industry and government on consumer issues. She served as a member of the FDA Food Advisory Committee from 1992-1996. She is a member of the National Institute of Medicine Committee on Use of Dietary Reference Intakes in Nutrition Labeling, a trustee of the International Food Information Council Foundation, and a member of the subcommittee on communication of the American Heart Association Council on Nutrition and Physical Activity. She has authored numerous articles in scientific journals. For more than 20 years, she co-authored a biweekly newspaper column on nutrition, nationally syndicated by the Washington Post Writer's Group. She also co-authored Dr. Jean Mayer's Diet and Nutrition Guide.