Jenifer Reader, MHE, RDN, LD

DPD Director/Clinical Associate Professor

EdD (ABD), Idaho State University
MHE, Idaho State University, 2017
BS, Idaho State University, 2007

Courses Taught

Consumer Nutrition
Nutrition
Quantity Foods
Nutrition for Health Professions
Nutrition Through the Lifecycle
Principles of Community Nutrition
Applications in Community Nutrition
Foodservice Systems Management
Special Problems in Nutrition and Dietetics

Research Interests

Food security
Community nutrition
Nutrition education
Nutrition policy

Scholarship

• Reader J, Larsen B. Advancing Idaho Food Security Research. Idaho Hunger Summit. Boise, ID: 12 Oct 2023.
• Reader J, Gordon B, Christensen N. Food insecurity among a cohort of Division I collegiate student athletes. Nutrients. 2022; 14:4703.
• Reader JL, What Can You Do with a Dollar? in The Greatest Lecture I was Never Taught [Curry JH, Jackson SR, ed]. Brill USA; 2021.
• Reader J, Gordon B, Christensen N. Food Insecurity Among a Cohort of Division I Collegiate Student Athletes. Idaho Academy and Nutrition and Dietetics. Boise, ID: 13-14 Apr 2023. 
• Cobabe C, Reader J. Partnering with the Idaho Foodbank to support food insecure children in eastern Idaho,” Idaho Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics Annual Meeting. Boise, ID: 22 Apr 2022. 
• Reader JL, Applying the MAP-IT Program Planning Model to a Community Nutrition Fair. Idaho and Washington Academies of Nutrition and Dietetics Educational Conference. Virtual: 2020 Apr 2020.

Service

• ISU Student Organization Advisor of the Year, 2023
• Bengal Basic Needs Collaborative
  • Chair and Founding Member
• Healthy Bengal Coalition
  • Health Fair Chair
  • Branding Chair
• Phi Upsilon Omicron National Honor Society
  • National Past President
  • ISU Beta Rho Chapter Faculty Advisor
• ISU Nutrition and Wellness Club
  • Faculty Advisor
• Idaho Interfaith Roundtable Against Hunger
  • Convener
• Idaho Hunger Relief Task Force
  • University Coalition Member
• Idaho Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics
  • Annual Meeting Planning Committee
  • Southeast Liaison
  • Nominating Committee
• Pocatello Dietitians
  • President
  • Nutrition Fair Chair