In all of our health and wellness initiatives, our advisory council of globally recognized experts provides perspective on best practices and emerging science to help guide our efforts. The members help us develop policies, standards, measures and timetables for implementing our initiatives.

We’ve brought together leading voices representing expertise from key health and wellness disciplines. These include experts in obesity, physical activity, public health, human behavior, nutrient fortification and lifestyle education.

The council meets on a regular basis throughout the year, and provides advice to Kraft outside of meetings as needed.

Kraft Foods Worldwide Health & Wellness Advisory Council Members 

• Lindsay H. Allen, Ph.D., Center Director, USDA, ARS Western Human Nutrition Research Center, and Research Professor, Department of Nutrition, University of California, Davis, CA. Her research has focused on prevalence, causes, and consequences of micronutrient deficiencies and strategies for their prevention, and maternal and child nutrition.
• David B. Allison, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor, Associate Dean for Science, Director of the Office of Energetics, and Director of the NIH-funded Nutrition Obesity Research Center, University of Alabama at Birmingham. His research interests include obesity and quantitative genetics.
• Astrup V. Arne, MD, DMSc, Professor, Head of Department of Human Nutrition, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. His research is focused on physiological regulation of human energy balance, bio-active food components effects on appetite and energy metabolism, and randomized, clinical trials for management of overweight and obesity.
• Leann L. Birch, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor of Human Development and Nutritional Sciences and Director of the Center for Childhood Obesity Research, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania. Her research interests include how children's eating habits are formed, eating disorders and risk and protective factors for childhood obesity.
• Albert Flynn, Ph.D., Professor in Nutritional Sciences, University College, Cork, Republic of Ireland. He conducts research in nutrient assessment.
• Jeanne P. Goldberg, Ph.D., RD Professor of Nutrition and Founding Director, Graduate Program in Nutrition Communication, Gerald J. and Dorothy R. Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Tufts University, Boston MA.  In addition to her work on Nutrition Communication, her current research focuses on nutrition and physical activity interventions in older populations and on improving the quality of foods that children bring from home to eat at school.
• Anura V Kurpad, MD, Ph.D., Professor of Physiology, St John's Medical College, Bangalore, India.  His research interests include human energy and amino acid requirements as well as maternal nutrition and health.
• Michael Lefevre, Ph.D., Scientific Director of the USTAR Applied Nutrition Research Team and USTAR Professor in the Department of Nutrition, Dietetics and Food Science at Utah State University.  His research focuses on the interactions between nutrition, gut microbiota and chronic disease.
• Russell R. Pate, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Exercise and Director of the Children's Physical Activity Research Group, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC. His research interests include physical activity and physical fitness in children and the health implication of physical activity.
• Ricardo Uauy, MD, PhD., Professor of Public Health Nutrition, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He is Past President of the International Union of Nutrition Sciences (IUNS) and Head, Clinical Nutrition Unit and Human Nutrition, Institute of Nutrition and Food Technology (INTA) at the University of Chile.