I am a nutritional epidemiologist and a senior research associate at Cornell University in the Department of Global Development. Previously, I was a research scientist at Purdue University in the Department of Public Health. I completed postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard School of Public Health in 2018 and my PhD at Johns Hopkins School of Public Health in December 2016. I have bachelors degree in environmental science, with a focus on aquatic and terrestrial ecology.
My research broadly focuses on how environmental and ecological factors translate to poor nutrition outcomes, and efforts to mitigate these negative impact. This has led me to explore gender equity, men’s engagement, livelihood (agriculture and non-farm work), food environment, informal economy, participatory climate change solutions, and consequently, metrics to measure these complex factors as it relates to nutrition outcomes. I have worked in Peru, South Africa, Tanzania, Ethiopia, and India.
Specifically, my research focuses on:
1) informal food environments both from a livelihood and nutrition perspective,
2) nutrition assessments, metrics, and methodology,
3) determinants of inequitable access to food systems, and
4) engagement of men/fathers/husbands to improve gender equity.