Emily A. Callahan

Emily A. Callahan is a nonresident senior fellow at the Adrienne Arsht National Security Resilience Initiative in the Atlantic Council’s Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security. She is the founder and principal of EAC Health and Nutrition, LLC and serves as director of policy strategy for the Food is Medicine Institute at Tufts University.

Callahan’s expertise lies at the intersections of health and nutrition research, communications, and policy. Through her consultancy, she has worked with a broad array of national health and scientific organizations, academic institutions, and federal government agencies to translate scientific research into policies and systems changes that improve population health. Earlier in her career, she held staff roles at the American Heart Association and the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. She also has extensive experience as a science writer and editor and serves on the Editorial Board for the Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.

Callahan earned a Master of Public Health from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a bachelor of science in dietetics (summa cum laude) from Miami University in Ohio. She has been credentialed as a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist since 2008. Callahan resides in the Washington, DC metro area with her husband and their four children.