Brittney Sly is a professor in the Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition at Colorado State University. She also serves as the director of the coordinated master’s program in dietetics and the master of advanced practice in dietetics.

Sly earned her B.S. in Nutrition Science from CSU, going on to become a registered dietitian nutritionist before completing her MPH from the Colorado School of Public Health and her Ph.D. in Food Science and Nutrition from CSU. She became a full-time faculty member in 2022 after teaching various classes over the years as an adjunct.

Sly’s research focuses on how community-engaged nutrition and agriculture research can sustainably improve diet diversity and food access in low resource communities in sub-Saharan Africa. Sly works primarily with women to collaboratively design intervention models that can address malnutrition through improved dietary intake for all members in a household. She currently has projects in Rwanda and Zambia. Her research is supported by the School for Sustainable Futures at CSU, Rotary International and MIGHTi.

Sly can speak on topics related to:

• Nutrition and agriculture in low resource settings
• Community engaged research focused on nutrition and health
• Malnutrition, diet diversity and food access in rural communities
• Women’s empowerment
• Global nutrition