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FRAC Child Nutrition Director Lynn Parker Honored
by American Public Health Association with Mary C. Egan Award
Award Recognizes Outstanding Contributions
of Public Health Nutritionists

Washington , D.C. – Lynn Parker, director of child nutrition for the Food Research and Action Center (FRAC), is this year’s recipient of the Mary C. Egan Award from the American Public Health Association. This award, being given on November 5th, marks the longstanding contributions and outstanding services of public health nutritionists.

“We are extraordinarily proud of Lynn Parker and her accomplishments for nearly three decades at FRAC in protecting and improving the nutrition and health of low-income Americans,” said FRAC President Jim Weill.

The Mary C. Egan Award is given to public health nutritionists who have shown imaginative and creative efforts to advance and promote nutrition at the state and national level, with particular attention to programs that improve children’s nutrition. Throughout her career, Parker has focused on the nutrition and health needs of low-income children and families.

She has been relied upon as an expert on nutrition policy by a wide variety of health and nutrition groups, including acting as an advisory panel member of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Evaluation of School Nutrition Programs in 1983. In 1992, she was appointed by then-Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell to a five-year term on the National Nutrition Monitoring Advisory Council, which reported to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Parker served as President of the Society for Nutrition Educa­tion in 1999 and she is a member of the Food and Nutrition Board of the National Academy of Sciences.

The American Public Health Association is the oldest and largest organization of public health professionals in the world, representing more than 50,000 members from over 50 occupations of public health. 

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The Food Research and Action Center (www.frac.org) is the leading national organization working for more effective public and private policies to eradicate domestic hunger and undernutrition.