Kathryn Bernstein

Program Director, Food Systems & Nutrition Policy at the Illinois Public Health Institute

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Kathryn Bernstein is a Program Director – Food Systems & Nutrition Policy at the Illinois Public Health Institute (IPHI), a statewide non-profit organization which collaborates to advance health justice through equitable policy, systems, and institutional change. Within her role at IPHI, Kathryn leads regional and statewide food and nutrition policy and systems change initiatives. This includes convening the Illinois Alliance to Promote Opportunities for Health (IAPOH) Food Systems and Nutrition Policy Workgroup, which houses Illinois’s Healthy School Meals for All coalition. Kathryn has her Master of Public Health in Nutrition from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is also a registered and licensed dietitian.