Sharon Natanblut

Policy + Communications Strategist

Former FDA Official

Sharon Natanblut is a public policy and strategic communications consultant, specializing in nutrition, food safety, and public health issues.  In her tenure at the Food and Drug Administration, she served as Associate Commissioner for Strategic Initiatives, Deputy Director of the Tobacco Office, and Director of Strategic Communications and Stakeholder Engagement and Senior Advisor to the Deputy Director of the Foods Program.  She was instrumental in the design of the iconic Nutrition Facts food label in the 1990s and its redesign in 2017.  She co-led the development of the 2018 FDA-EPA seafood advice for pregnant women.  She played a lead role in the investigation and regulation of the tobacco industry.  She built and directed an extensive stakeholder engagement program that played a major role in the development, implementation, and public support of the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act rules. Sharon serves on two Tufts University Policy Advisory Groups on nutrition and health and on the Stop Foodborne Outbreak’s Recall Modernization Workgroup. Earlier in her career she worked outside the government, as Vice President for Communications and Marketing for the American Legacy Foundation and at Burson-Marsteller, a worldwide public affairs/public relations firm.