Jill Joyce

I am a Registered Dietitian and an Assistant Professor of Public Health Nutrition in the Department of Nutritional Sciences at Oklahoma State University. I am originally from Pittsburgh, PA, where I did my BS and MS/DI at the University of Pittsburgh in Clinical Dietetics and Nutrition. After graduation, I spent 9 years moving around the country with my husband for his active duty Army service working in a variety of settings from in-patient clinical and out-patient eating disorder treatment to home health and childcare menu development.

Research Interests:

My area of expertise lies in assessing how healthy the diet is, or dietary quality, and in designing programs to improve dietary quality of large groups of people. I focus currently on improving dietary quality through school nutrition and with tactical athletes, including firefighters, police officers, and military personnel and their families. For the latter, I am co-director of the OSU Tactical Fitness and Nutrition Lab. TFAN's mission is to improve the health, fitness, and occupational performance of tactical athletes through education, research, and outreach.