Vice Provost for Graduate Students and Postdoctoral Scholars and Director for Feed the Future Food Safety Innovation Lab
Purdue University
Dr. Haley Oliver serves as the Vice Provost for the Graduate School and Postdoctoral Scholars at Purdue University, a 150th Anniversary Professor of Food Science, and was the Director of the Feed the Future Food Innovation Lab for Food Safety. As Director of the Food Safety Innovation Lab, she developed and oversaw USAID’s food safety research portfolio implemented in Senegal, Kenya, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Nigeria, and Nepal. She has over 10 years of experience in food security fieldwork in low- and middle-income economies. Dr. Oliver’s domestic research focuses on foodborne pathogens in emerging food systems (e.g., cellular agriculture) with an emphasis on practical and feasible control strategies. Throughout her tenure, she has taught food microbiology, food safety, sanitation, and related subjects. She is deeply committed to active learning and has worked tirelessly to support graduate recruitment and success initiatives in her classroom and research programs.
She has received the United States Department of Agriculture and the Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities John Morrill Award, Purdue University Carine Alexander Spirit of the Land-Grant award, the USDA Food and Agriculture Science Excellence in Teaching Regional Career Award, the Charles B. Murphy Teaching Award, the International Association for Food Protection James M. Jay Diversity in Food Award.
She completed her Bachelor of Science degrees in Molecular Biology and in Microbiology at the University of Wyoming and received her PhD in Food Science, with minors in Epidemiology and Microbiology, at Cornell University.
Applying Outbreak Lessons Learned to Strengthen Food Safety Improvements
Monday, June 23, 2025
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM CENTRAL TIME