CFNAP Executive Summary

Center for Food, Nutrition, and Agriculture Policy
University of Maryland – College Park

Executive Summary

The Center for Food, Nutrition, and Agriculture Policy (CFNAP) is dedicated to advancing rational, science-based food, nutrition, and agriculture policy and is chartered with the University of Maryland—College Park (UMD). Through its research, outreach, and educational programs, CFNAP examines complex, and oftentimes contentious, issues facing government policymakers, regulators, agribusinesses, food manufacturers, the media, and consumers.

Currently, CFNAP’s faculty forms a team of professionals with diverse backgrounds in nutrition, food safety and defense, and risk analysis.
CFNAP’s Director, Dr. Maureen L. Storey, has extensive experience in nutrition research, outreach, and policy activities. Prior to joining CFNAP, she held executive positions in nutrition research, marketing, and business development over a 10-year career at the Kellogg Company and was Senior Vice President for Health and Nutrition Marketing at the public relations firm Hayes, Domenici & Associates.
Dr. Richard A. Forshee’s academic career includes analysis of risk using quantitative (statistical) methods and research using nationally representative dietary surveys. He is the Deputy Director and Director of Research at CFNAP.
Dr. Gary A. Weaver is a veterinary pathologist and lawyer (DVM, PhD, Esq.) and is CFNAP’s Director of the Program for Agriculture and Animal Health Policy. He is an expert in animal health and bioterrorism who has worked counterterrorism issues at the Food and Drug Administration and biological warfare issues at the Central Intelligence Agency.
Dr. Sanford A. Miller, Senior Fellow, has had a distinguished career. He is Dean Emeritus of the Graduate School of Biomedical Science at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio; served as director of the Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition at the Food and Drug Administration; and was a professor of nutritional biochemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Patricia A. Anderson, MPP—a graduate of Princeton (B.S.) and Georgetown University (MPP)—is the Manager for Special Research Initiatives. She has experience working in academic centers and trade associations involved in food and nutrition issues.
Gayle L. Hein, BS is the Manager for Nutrition Research Initiatives with an educational background in human nutrition and chemistry and professional experience in environmental chemistry and private regulatory agencies.

CFNAP’s outreach and public service programs are signified by its trademark, Ceres®. The Ceres forums, roundtables, workshops, seminars, and lectures provide a venue for stakeholders to debate current food, nutrition, and agriculture policy issues having impact in the United States and throughout the world. CFNAP publishes high-quality, scholarly proceedings and executive summaries commemorating these deliberations. Ceres®net is an email service that provides information about CFNAP’s education and outreach activities, the availability of its research papers and publications, and its formal communications, such as comments and testimony provided to federal and local governments.

CFNAP is not-for-profit and non-partisan. CFNAP receives donations, sponsorships of conferences, and unrestricted research gifts from private foundations, government, agribusinesses, trade associations, and food manufacturers that help to support its activities.

CFNAP has an experienced faculty with an unmatched combination of expertise in science and policy as it relates to food, nutrition, and agriculture. The science-based culture of CFNAP works with a sense of urgency, creativity, collegiality, and flexibility. CFNAP’s location in College Park, MD is within minutes of Washington, DC—the nation’s capital and the power base of policymaking.