Retaliation by amy block joy
Amy Block Joy is Cooperative Extension Specialist, Emeritus at the University of California, Davis best known for exposing fraudulent activity in a California nutrition education program. She specializes in nutrition and health disparities of diverse populations, nutritional ecology, and ethics. She is an author and advocate for whistleblowers and employee rights.
Contents
- Retaliation by amy block joy
- Amy block joy retaliation
- Career
- Whistleblower Report
- Published work
- Education
- References
Amy block joy retaliation
Career
In 1980, Joy was hired as a University of California, Berkeley campus Specialist in Nutrition. She took a sabbatical to the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in 1992. There she developed a proposal to help poor families improve their economic and nutritional well-being, which was subsequently funded by the US Department of Agriculture.
Upon her return to the US, she joined the University of California, Davis faculty in the Department of Nutrition. From 1994, Joy was director of the UC Food Stamp Nutrition Education Program, which provided nutrition education to low-income families throughout California. In 2007, Joy stepped down as director of the program.
She was reassigned to a one-woman department, Nutritional Ecology, exploring topics including nutritional controversy, health impacts on the environment, nutritional policies, and food safety. She also teaches undergraduate courses.
Whistleblower Report
In August 2006, Joy filed a whistleblower report over fraudulent activities within the UC Food Stamp Nutrition Education Program. UC Davis reached a settlement with Joy over retaliation for whistleblowing, paying her $89,611. An investigation by the university and the US Department of Agriculture verified many of her allegations. As a result, the California Department of Social Services withheld $2.3 million in funding from UC Davis and the program's participating counties.
Published work
In 1985, she published "California EFNEP Evaluation Study" at Berkeley. It was the first experimentally-designed study of the effectiveness of nutrition education and discussed in the book New Directions for Evaluation.
In 2006, she published the first cost-benefit analysis to measure cost effectiveness of nutrition education in California. The analysis is discussed in the 2016 version of Community Health Nursing: Caring for the Public's Health.
Joy has authored two books about her whistleblower experience, titled Whistleblower (self-published by CreateSpace) and Retaliation.(published by Bay Tree Publishing She began writing books in order to educate future whistleblowers.
She is an associate editor of California Agriculture, a peer reviewed journal. She has also published articles in Compliance and Ethics Professional.
Education
She earned a bachelor's degree in Biochemistry and Bacteriology from the University of California, Berkeley in 1974 and a Ph.D. in Nutritional Sciences from the University of California, Berkeley in 1979.