Eric Rimm, ScD is professor of epidemiology and nutrition and director of the Program in Cardiovascular Epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health and professor of medicine at the Harvard Medical School. For over three decades he has conducted extensive research on the health effects of diet and lifestyle in relation to cardiometabolic disease. He also studies the impact of nutrition policy as it relates to the diets of school children and the 15% of the U.S. population on SNAP and the almost 50% of children born on WIC. He has previously served on an Institute of Medicine’s Food Policy committee, the USDA ERS scientific advisory committee, and the scientific advisory committee for the 2010 U.S. Dietary Guidelines for Americans. He has published more than 900 peer reviewed publications during his 30 years on the faculty at Harvard.  He is also a nutritional advisor to the Boston Red Sox and the Liverpool Football Club in the English Premier League. He has received several awards for his work including the American Society for Nutrition General Mills Institute of Health and Nutrition Innovation Award. (Boston, MA)