NIFA is organized into the institutes of Bioenergy, Climate and Environment; Food Production and Sustainability; Food Safety and Nutrition; and Youth, Family and Community.
Below are NIFA Institutes, and the associated Divisions, Division Directors (or Acting Division Directors), National Program Leaders (NPL), and National Science Liaisons (NSL).
Institute of Bioenergy, Climate and Environment
- Deputy Director: Kevin Kephart
Division of Bioenergy
- Division Director (Acting): Keith Harris
- NPL: Toby Ahrens
- NPL: Victoria Finkenstadt
- NPL: William Goldner
Division of Environmental Systems
- Division Director: Peter Thompson
- NPL: Daniel Cassidy
- NPL: Jim Dobrowolski
- NPL: Sandeep Kumar
- NPL: Diomides "Diomy" Zamora
Division of Global Climate Change
- Division Director: Rachel Melnick
- NPL: Amy Ganguli
- NPL: Rachel Seman-Varner
- NPL: Kaushlendra Tingi
- NPL: Adam Wilke
Institute of Food Production and Sustainability
- Deputy Director: Kal Kalavacharla
Division of Agricultural Systems
- Division Director: Melvin Carter
- NPL: Denis Ebodaghe
- NPL: Rachel Seman-Varner
- NPL: Steve Thomson
- NPL: Charlotte Tuttle
Division of Animal Systems
- Division Director: Robert Godfrey
- NPL: Kathe Bjork
- NPL: Michelle Colby
- NPL: Kamilah Grant
- NPL: Robert Smith
- NPL: Steven Smith
- NPL: Tim Sullivan
- NPL: Angelica Van Goor
Division of Plant Systems-Production
- Division Director: Susan Moser
- NPL: Tom Bewick
- NPL: John Erickson
- NPL: Bisoondat "Mac" Macoon
- NPL: Vance Owens
- NPL: Ann Stapleton
- NPL: Christian Tobias
- NPL: Jessica Shade
Division of Plant Systems-Protection
- Division Director: Rubella Goswami
- NPL: Emmanuel Byamukama
- NPL: Amer Fayad
- NPL: Erica Kistner-Thomas
- NPL: Vijay Nandula
- NPL: Christopher Philips
- NPL: Michelle Samuel-Foo
Institute of Food Safety and Nutrition
- Deputy Director: Suzanne Stluka
Division of Food Safety
- Division Director: Steve Zeng
- NPL: Hongda Chen
- NPL: Jodi Williams
Division of Nutrition
- Division Director (Acting): “Steve” Shoushan Zeng
- NPL: Junia Jean-Gilles Beaubrun
- NPL: Carinthia Cherry
- NPL: Helen Chipman
- NPL: Kristopher Grimes
- NPL: Pascale Jean
- NPL: Lydia Kaume
- NPL: Mallory Koenings
Institute of Youth, Family and Community
- Deputy Director (Acting): Martha Ray Sartor
Division of Community and Education
- Division Director: Peter Motavalli
- NPL: Ray Ali
- NPL: Solomon Haile
- NPL: Irma Lawrence
- NPL: Rizana Mahroof
- NPL: Manoharan Muthusamy
- NPL: Carlos Ortiz
- NPL: Erin Riley
- NPL: Michelle Schelske-Santos
- NPL: Janyce Woodard
Division of Family and Consumer Sciences
- Division Director (Acting): Edwin Lewis
- NPL: Keith Harris
- NPL: Brenda Martin
- NPL: Ashley Mueller
- NPL: Sarah Rocker
- NPL: Ahlishia Shipley
Division of Youth and 4-H
- Division Director: Manoharan Muthusamy, Ph.D.
- NPL: Annie Ceccarini
- NPL: Jeff Sallee
- NPL: Maurice Smith
- NPL: Bonita Williams
National Science Liaison Team
Supports the agency’s national research, education and Extension portfolio; advance NIFA programs; and serve as expert resources in Washington, D.C.
- NSL: Brent Elrod (4-H and Community Development)
- NSL: Sheila Fleischhacker (Food Safety and Nutrition)
- NSL: Mark Mirando (AFRI; Animal Health and Production)
- NSL: Mat Ngouajio (Plant Production and Protection; Organic Farming)
- NSL: Eric Norland (Environmental and Natural Resources)
- NSL: Megan O'Rourke (Climate Change)