Sydne Newberry is a communications analyst at RAND and a professor of policy analysis at the Pardee RAND Graduate School. As a nutritionist, she has also served as a project lead and literature reviewer for systematic reviews of evidence in the areas of nutrition, endocrinology, military health, and integrative medicine. She has led systematic reviews on the effects of sodium and potassium on heart health; omega-3 fatty acids; vitamin D and bone health; diagnosis and treatment of gout; and prevention and treatment of osteoporosis and osteoarthritis. As a research communications analyst, Newberry assists researchers with proposal preparation, dissemination planning, drafting and revising research reports, and creating spinoff products to target specific audiences and stakeholders. She works for the Health Care Division and the FFRDCs, primarily in the area of military acquisition.
Prior to joining RAND, Newberry was a nutrition instructor and project manager for the Department of Community Health Sciences in the UCLA School of Public Health, and the project officer for the Institute of Medicine/Food and Nutrition Board/Committee on Military Nutrition Research of the National Academy of Sciences. She received an NIH postdoctoral training grant and conducted postdoc research at the Ohio State University and the Fels Research Institute/Wright State University School of Medicine (Dayton, OH) in molecular biology and virology. She currently serves as a peer reviewer for numerous journals and was an invited blogger for the American Society of Nutrition. Newberry received her Ph.D. in nutritional biochemistry from MIT.
Ph.D. in nutritional biochemistry and metabolism, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
