Jerold Robert Mande (born January 20, 1954)[1] is an American nutritionist, public policy expert, and civil servant who served as Deputy Under Secretary for Food Safety at the US Department of Agriculture, in charge of the Food Safety and Inspection Service, from 2009 to 2011.

[4] He completed the program for senior government managers at Harvard Kennedy School in 1989.

He is married to pediatrician and health policy expert Elizabeth Drye and has two sons, Matthew and Thomas.

He led the 50th Anniversary of the White House Conference on Food, Nutrition, and Health.

[9][4] In 2022, Mande launched Nourish Science with Jerome Adams, Bill Frist, and Thomas Grumbly to ensure every child reaches age 18 at a healthy weight by increasing federal support for nutrition research, rejuvenating FDA food regulation,and modernizing SNAP to ensure nutrition security.