Ilana Cliffer, PhD

Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Ilana is currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Harvard School of Public Health. Her research interests include links between food systems, diet quality, infectious diseases, and nutritional outcomes. Active projects include meta-analyses investigating diet quality, psychosocial, and environmental factors as predictors of gestational weight gain, evaluation of the effectiveness of preventing anemia among school-based adolescents with distribution of various supplements, working with the Food Systems for Nutrition Innovation Lab consortium to identify innovative food systems metrics, and modeling the seasonality of nutritional outcomes. Ilana earned her doctoral degree in April 2021 from the Tufts Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, where her dissertation work focused on using longitudinal data to assess the timing of growth faltering among children, and environmental influencers of growth.

Presentation(s):

• Climate, Environment, Agriculture and Food Supply (Oral 3)

  On Demand

  Disclosure(s): No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.

• (OR03-07-22) Seasonality of Child Growth: High Temperatures Coincide With Growth Faltering Among Young Children in Burkina Faso

  On Demand

  Disclosure(s): No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.