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Ph.D. Candidate
University of South Carolina
Krystal Rampalli, M.P.H. is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Health Promotion, Education and Behavior at the University of South Carolina-Arnold School of Public Health, USA and currently based in Accra, Ghana. Her research interests are in the global nutrition transition, food environments, food choices, and non-communicable diseases. Krystal's doctoral research is in partnership with the Measurement, Evaluation, Accountability, and Leadership Support for Non-Communicable Disease Prevention (MEALS4NCDs) Project (www.meals4ncds.org) and focuses on drivers of adolescent food choice in urban Accra, Ghana with an emphasis on body image, food marketing, and food choice decision-making. She is also a Graduate Research Assistant for the Drivers of Food Choice Program (www.driversoffoodchoice.org), where she provides support to a portfolio of 15 projects that examined how food choice decision-making among the poor amidst changing food environments in low- and middle-income countries. Krystal has research and programmatic experience in public health initiatives pertaining to reproductive health, agriculture, and nutrition with various domestic and international governmental and non-governmental organizations. She holds a B.S. in Molecular and Cell Biology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and an M.P.H. in Environmental Health Sciences from the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities.