Nancy Glick is Director of Food and Nutrition Policy for the National Consumers League, a position she has held since September 2020. Building on a long career in health and nutrition advocacy, Ms. Glick works to ensure the consumer’s voice is heard in championing policies that will improve food safety and combat diet-related chronic diseases. She also leads NCL’s obesity policy initiatives, including spearheading the development of the first Obesity Bill of Rights for the nation.
Prior to joining NCL, from 2009 through mid-2020, Ms. Glick was Director of Health Affairs and Advocacy at the public relations firm MSL. She also served in executive positions at three other leading public relations agencies – Ruder Finn, Porter/Novelli and Hill and Knowlton, Inc. –and was a press officer at the Food and Drug Administration, where she handled food, cosmetics, drugs and consumer issues and agency announcements about product recalls.
Consumers are inundated with false information circulating online about GLP-1 medicines, which causes confusion and can lead to potentially serious health problems resulting from dosing errors and adverse reactions to ingredients in compounded GLP-1 products.