LAURA BRAININ-RODRIGUEZ, M.P.H., M.S., R.D.

LAURA BRAININ-RODRIGUEZ, M.P.H., M.S., R.D., is with Nutrition Services of the San Francisco Department of Public Health. There she provides staff and provider training and consultation and develops and implements community nutrition education programs for the California Nutrition Network. Her project reaches over 40,000 people a year through presentations, technical assistance, nutrition education materials and community partnerships and over 10 million a year through media outreach.

Laura Brainin-Rodriguez currently serves in the SFUSD Nutrition and Physical Activity Committee that drafted the implementation guidelines for the SF School Board Resolution to improve the nutritional quality of foods served in SF public schools.

Ms. Brainin-Rodriguez is the Bay Area Nutrition and Physical Activity Collaborative leadership council representative for the City and County of San Francisco and has been involved with BANPAC since it’s inception in September 2003.

She has a Master’s in Nutrition and a Master’s in Public Health Nutrition, both from U.C. Berkeley. Ms. Brainin-Rodriguez previously worked at Highland Hospital’s Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, the S.F. WIC Program, the Stanford University Student Health Center and Health Improvement Program and the S.F. CHDP Program.

She has also taught at UCSF School of Nursing, S.F. State University, City College of S.F., St. Mary’s College, Universidad Centroamericana in Nicaragua and U.C. Berkeley Extension. Ms. Brainin-Rodriguez has done hundreds of presentations for lay and professional audiences on the role of nutrition in health promotion. She has also provided individual nutrition consultation to over 10,000 people seeking to improve their nutritional wellbeing.

Contact Information:

Laura Brainin-Rodriguez, MPH, MS
RD-City and County of San Francisco, Department of Public Health and Nutrition Services, Coordinator, Feeling Good Project
(415) 575-5687
e-mail: laura.brainin-rodriguez@sfdph.org