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Branch Chief
Risk Factor Assessment Branch, Epidemiology and Genomics Research Program
Telephone: (240) 276-6812
E-mail: reedyj@mail.nih.gov
- PhD – Nutrition, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- MPH – Nutrition, University of California, Berkeley
- Dietary patterns
- Food environment
- Dietary guidance
- Dietary surveillance
- Dietary assessment
Biography
Dr. Jill Reedy is chief of the Risk Factor Assessment Branch (RFAB) of the Epidemiology and Genomics Research Program (EGRP) in NCI's Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences (DCCPS). Previously, she was a program director in RFAB from 2015-2019.
As branch chief, Dr. Reedy oversees EGRP’s research portfolio and initiatives that focus on diet, physical activity, and sleep assessment; methods, tools, technologies and resources for risk factor assessment; and obesity policy research. Her scientific interests include different methodological approaches in dietary pattern analysis, dietary surveillance, obesity policy, new technologies for dietary assessment, and measures of the food environment.
Dr. Reedy is the program officer for the Diet Assessment Center for the Nutrition for Precision Health, powered by All of Us Research Program, which focuses on improving diet assessment methodologies through validation, evaluation, and modeling efforts. She also leads the Dietary Patterns Methods Project, a collaboration with investigators from three large U.S. cohorts, which aims to systematically examine index-based scoring systems using standardized methods with cancer mortality outcomes. Dr. Reedy serves on several trans-NIH working groups, including the Senior Leadership Group for the NIH Office of Nutrition Research.
Dr. Reedy partners with colleagues at NCI, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), the National Collaborative on Childhood Obesity Research (NCCOR), World Cancer Research Fund (WCRF), and the American Institute for Cancer Research (ACIR), to develop resources for researchers including the Dietary Assessment Primer; the NCCOR Measures Registry Resource Suite
; the NCCOR Catalogue of Surveillance Systems; the WCRF/AICR Score; and the Healthy Eating Index.
Prior to joining EGRP, Dr. Reedy was a program director and nutritionist in DCCPS’s Applied Research Program (now the Healthcare Delivery Research Program). She first joined NCI as a Cancer Prevention Fellowship Program fellow. Dr. Reedy is a registered dietitian nutritionist and previously worked as a regional manager at the Dairy Council of California, a consultant with the California Nutrition Network, and a pediatric dietitian.
Select Publications
Shams-White MM, Brockton NT, Mitrou P, Kahle LL, Reedy J. The 2018 World Cancer Research Fund/American Institute for Cancer Research (WCRF/AICR) Score and All-Cause, Cancer, and Cardiovascular Disease Mortality Risk: A Longitudinal Analysis in the NIH-AARP Diet and Health Study. Curr Dev Nutr. 2022;6(6).
Brown AGM, Shi S, Adas S, Boyington JEA, Cotton PA, Jirles B, Rajapakse N, Reedy J, Regan K, Xi D, Zappalà G, Agurs-Collins T. A Decade of Nutrition and Health Disparities Research at NIH, 2010-2019. Am J Prev Med. 2022:S0749-3797.
Reedy J, Subar AF, George S, Krebs-Smith SM. Extending methods in dietary patterns research. Nutrients. 2018 May 7;10(5):571-578.
Liese AD, Krebs-Smith SM, Subar AF, George SM, Harmon BE, Neuhouser ML, Boushey CJ, Schap T, Reedy J. The Dietary Patterns Methods Project: synthesis of findings across cohorts and relevance to dietary guidance. J Nutr. 2015; 145:393-402.
Miller PE, Reedy J, Kirkpatrick SI, Krebs-Smith SM. The United States food supply is not consistent with dietary guidance: evidence from an evaluation using the Healthy Eating Index-2010. J Acad Nutr Diet. 2015 Jan;115(1): 95-100.