Lisa Shelley, Ph.D.
Director of Research, Safe Plates
North Carolina State University

Dr. Lisa Shelley is the Director of Research for the Safe Plates Program at NC State University. Using multidisciplinary approaches, she has designed a variety of research projects related to food safety labeling and messaging and consumer food handling behaviors. Her observational research has followed consumers through meal preparation, tracked thousands of handwashing events, and logged hundreds of hours of interviews—all with the goal of evaluating and developing effective food safety messages. More recently, her work has expanded to include industry partnerships exploring temperature monitoring and alarm fatigue in food service environments, as well as collaborative research evaluating sanitation systems and staff performance using digital monitoring tools in retail food service.