Kelly Dumke has worked internationally in public health focusing on systems change that confronts upstream root causes of disease. She received her bachelor’s degree in Psychobiology from UCLA and her master’s degree in nutrition from Tufts University, Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy specializing in nutrition communication and public health. She has spent the last several years developing strategies to curb the growing obesity epidemic for the European Commission’s Platform for Diet, Physical Activity, and Health;researching and evaluating interventions at the Childhood Obesity Research Center;and developing policy and systems approaches to address childhood obesity with the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health’s Choose Health LA Kids Program. In 2016, Kelly was named to the University of California’s 30 Under 30, which honors young people working to solve the global food crisis.


Kelly is currently working for Kaiser Permanente’s Center for Healthy Living to develop prevention and disease management programs for the Southern California region. Additionally, she is working on her Doctorate in Public Health through the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her research interests include upstream approaches to chronic disease prevention, pediatric obesity prevention, and social determinants of health. Kelly is a California-native, dual U.S./Irish citizen with a passion for public health, systems change, and human centered design.