Alison Gustafson, PhD, MPH, RDN, LD,

Alison Gustafson, PhD, MPH, RD is the Martin Gatton Foundation Endowed Chair and Professor in the Department of Dietetics and Human Nutrition, at Martin Gatton College of Agriculture, Food, and
Environment and College of Nursing. Dr. Gustafson also serves as the Director of the Food as Health Alliance in Kentucky.

Dr. Gustafson addresses health disparities through the food insecurity lens to improve policy approaches for those in social safety networks. Dr. Gustafson has been the PI or Co-I on over $14 million in grant funding from CDC, NIH, and USDA related to interventions targeting food insecurity and subsequent health outcomes. As Director she leads the Food as Health Alliance’s collective mission to build and expand the translational research between clinical and community interventions to target food insecurity as an approach to improve diet-sensitive disease and health outcomes. Dr. Gustafson is the PI on a recent American Heart Association Healthcare X Food grant which is utilizing a user-centered design approach to improve the screening and referral process for food is medicine programs. Lastly, Dr. Gustafson has received $1 million in donations to the Alliance to support building a statewide screening, referral, enrollment, and engagement hub for food is medicine programs across Kentucky.