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Adjunct Professor
University of California, Davis
Stephen A. Vosti is Adjunct Professor in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of California, Davis, where he teaches classes on the economics of human nutrition and on the economics of small-scale agriculture in developing countries. He received his PhD in economics from the University of Pennsylvania, and was a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Rockefeller Foundation in Brazil. He was a Research Fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute, where he managed international research projects that identified, measured and modeled the effects of changes in land use and land cover on poverty, economic growth and environmental sustainability, and identified the roles of public policy in managing these trade-offs/synergies. Vosti currently leads a team comprised of nutritionists, geographers, biostatisticians, and economists that develops and uses tools to help developing countries design and manage more cost-effectiveness micronutrient intervention programs and policies. The team has recently assessed the cost-efficiency and cost-effectiveness of alternative deliver platforms for multiple MN powders (Uganda) and vitamin A supplementation (Kenya). The team has worked closely with policymakers in Cameroon to identify more cost-effective food fortification and other strategies for managing vitamin A deficiencies among young children. The team also played an important role in the recent decision in Ethiopia to mandate the fortification of imported edible oils. Vosti is also a member of the team that is preparing to test the efficacy of multi-fortified bouillon cubes in northern Ghana, and to help develop national and regional fortification standards for this condiment. Vosti has substantial field-based research experience in Bangladesh, Brazil, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Ecuador, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi and Pakistan.