Regan L Bailey

Regan Lucas Bailey is an American nutritional epidemiologist and a Professor at Florida State University.

Early life and education Bailey earned her Bachelor of Science degree and PhD from Pennsylvania State University while enrolling at Indiana University of Pennsylvania for her Master's of Science degree.

Bailey has 3 children, Savannah, Benner, Elliot. Bailey is married to Weston Schempf.

Career After earning her PhD, Bailey accepted a position as director of career development and outreach at the National Institutes of Health Office of Dietary Supplements. She left the organization in 2013 to become an adjunct faculty member at Purdue University. In this role, she also completed her Master's of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University. In 2017, Bailey was designated a Showalter Faculty Scholar for her research into diet and disease.

In 2019, Bailey was named to United States Department of Agriculture and United States Department of Health and Human Services' 2020 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee. Bailey also published the findings from her study "Feeding Infants and Toddler Study 2016" which found that 20 per cent of infants had a low intake of iron. She was subsequently promoted to the rank of Full professor in May 2019.

In 2020, Bailey was elected a Member of the National Academy of Medicine for her "work on measuring nutritional status to optimize health."