Meet Our Team

Gayle Shipp is an Assistant Professor at Michigan State University, in Charles Stewart Mott Department of Public Health, Pediatric Public Health Initiative. She has a PhD in Human Nutrition and is a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist. She completed an NIH funded postdoctoral fellowship (2020-2022) funded through Environmental Influences and Child Health Outcomes, ECHO program, focused on perinatal epidemiology and design of intervention studies. Dr. Shipp is a community-based participatory nutrition researcher and scholar focusing on improving maternal and child health equity, particularly through projects addressing breastfeeding disparities among African Americans. She received an RWJF, Health Equity Scholars for Action (2024-2026), award to evaluate a community-based maternity care model and engage partners in prenatal and antenatal initiatives supporting families in Flint, Michigan. Additionally, she leads a collaborative project focused on understanding the birthing experiences of Black women in Michigan.

She has a strong desire to improve the health and well-being of communities where she is a Board Member (previous Board Chair) of the statewide breastfeeding coalition, Michigan Breastfeeding Network, MIBFN.