Lisa Troy
Director, Public Engagement Project
Director of Public Engagement Project Faculty Fellows Program
Associate Professor, Department of Nutrition, School of Public Health & Health Sciences
Director, Nutrition Assessment Laboratory
Commonwealth Honors College Professor in Nutrition
Lisa M. Troy is Associate Professor of Nutrition and Commonwealth Honors College Professor in Nutrition at UMass Amherst and uses novel pattern analysis approaches to examine the role of diet and exercise on chronic disease prevention. She also studies how government programs and policies impact diet quality and public health outcomes. She has extensive experience in public policy engagement including as a study director for the National Academies of Sciences, Institute of Medicine and has given invited lectures at professional conferences on “Tips for talking to policy-makers,” and “Using Qualitative Data to Inform Social Policy.” In 2010-12, Dr. Troy worked in the U.S. Senate (Robert P. Casey, PA) and U.S. House of Representatives (James P. McGovern, MA) through Columbia University’s Health and Aging Policy Fellowship and American Political Science Association programs. She was a founding member of the Massachusetts Food Policy Alliance, which played an instrumental role in advocating for legislative commitment to creating a Food Policy Council for the state of Massachusetts.