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Director, Nutrition Policy
Center for Science in the Public Interest
Margo Wootan is the director of nutrition policy at the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI), a leading consumer advocacy organization that specializes in food, nutrition, and public health issues. She co-founded and coordinates the activities of the National Alliance for Nutrition and Activity (NANA), a coalition of national, state and local organizations. She is a member of the National 5 A Day Partnership steering committee and co-chairs the Policy Subcommittee for the Partnership.
Dr. Wootan leads efforts to require trans fat labeling, improve school foods, require calorie labeling in fast-food and other chain restaurants, expand nutrition and physical activity promotion and funding, and reduce junk-food marketing aimed at children. She also is the director of CSPI's award-winning 1% or Less campaign, a community-based nutrition promotion program. She has testified before Congress and state legislatures and been invited to speak at the National Nutrition Summit, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and the Surgeon General's Listening Session for the National Action Plan on Overweight and Obesity.
Dr. Wootan has won awards from the American Public Health Association, Association of State and Territorial Public Health Nutrition Directors, the Society for Nutrition Education, the Society for Prevention Research, and the National Health Information Awards. She received her B.S. in nutrition from Cornell University and her doctorate in nutrition from Harvard University's School of Public Health.