Regan Bailey

Regan Bailey is a Professor of Behavioral Science and Social Medicine and Director of the Institute for Connecting Nutrition and Health (ICON-Health) at Florida State University. Before this she was a Distinguished Professor of Nutrition at Texas A&M University, where for three years she served as the inaugural Director for Precision Nutrition at the Institute for Advancing Health Through Agriculture. Dr. Bailey has been a Professor of Nutrition Science at Purdue University, where she held the title of Faculty Scholar with Showalter Distinction. While at Purdue she was the Scientific Director of the Diet Assessment Center within the Indiana Clinical and Translational Science Institute. She began her career as a civil servant at the U.S. National Institutes of Health as a Nutritional Epidemiologist and Director of Career Development within Office of Dietary Supplements. She also has clinical experience as a practicing Registered Dietitian in acute and long-term care settings.

Her research program utilizes best practices for characterization of nutritional status, improvement of dietary assessment, and chronic disease risk using a life course approach. Through her research team’s work, they identified nutrition risk in population subgroups including gender, sex, ancestral origin, degree of urbanicity, age, life stage, food security status, socio-economic measures, and disease states. This research has identified the need for population-specific interventions and public health policy and supported the need for greater precision in nutrition. She is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine, and a Fellow of the American Society for Nutrition. Her work has been funded by NIH, USDA, USAID, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.