David Krol is the medical director of Rutgers New Jersey Institute for Food, Nutrition, and Health and the New Jersey Healthy Kids Initiative, a program that helps children, families and communities live their healthiest lives by improving nutrition and physical activity.
Krol has won multiple awards for his clinical, advocacy, and leadership efforts, including the 2018 Special Achievement Award from the American Academy of Pediatrics for outstanding contributions to and advocacy on behalf of children and their families. He is a board-certified pediatrician and a fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics.
According to Krol, “in New Jersey, one out of eight children is ‘”food insecure,”’ or unable to get enough food, or enough healthy food.” He wrote a recent Op-Ed for the Star Ledger.
