Katrina L. Piercy PhD, RD, ACSM-CEP

Katrina Piercy, PhD, RD, ACSM-CEP is a Physical Activity and Nutrition Advisor in the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (ODPHP) in the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and serves as a dietitian officer in the United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps. Dr. Piercy advises agency and departmental officials on current physical activity and nutrition science to inform policies and programs related to health promotion and disease prevention.

She was the federal lead for the second edition of the Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans and led the project on behalf of ODPHP in collaboration with CDC, NIH, and the President’s Council on Sports, Fitness & Nutrition. Her work involved overseeing the Advisory Committee as they executed an extensive systematic literature review on physical activity and health and compiled their findings into a Scientific Report. She previously served as a policy writer and staffed the advisory committee for the 2015-2020 Dietary Guidelines for Americans and was the federal lead managing the Physical Activity Guidelines Midcourse Report: Strategies to Increase Physical Activity Among Youth. She is currently leading HHS’s efforts to develop a National Youth Sports Strategy to be released in 2019.