.png)
Professor
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Jessica Fanzo, PhD is the Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Global Food Policy and Ethics at Johns Hopkins University. She holds appointments in the Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Berman Institute of Bioethics, and Bloomberg Public Health. She serves as the Director of Hopkins’ Global Food Policy and Ethics Program, and as Director of Food & Nutrition Security at Hopkins’ Alliance for a Healthier World. From 2021 to 2022, Jess was the Vice Dean of Faculty Affairs at SAIS. She leads the development of the Food Systems Dashboard and the Food Systems Countdown Initiative, in collaboration with GAIN. Jessica was the Editor-in-Chief for the Global Food Security Journal and Associate Editor for the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. From 2017 to 2022, she has served on various collective endeavors including the Food Systems Economic Commission, the Cornell Atkinson Center’s Socio-Technical Innovation Bundles for Agri-Food Systems Transformation report, the Global Panel of Agriculture and Food Systems for Nutrition Foresight 2.0 report, and the EAT-Lancet Commission. She was also the Co-Chair of the Global Nutrition Report and Team Leader for the UN High-Level Panel of Experts on Food Systems and Nutrition. Jess’s research focuses on sustainable food systems and their impacts on healthy and equitable diets in resource-constrained contexts.
Thursday, June 16, 2022
12:00 PM – 1:30 PM ET
Disclosure(s): Botnar Foundation: Consultant (Ongoing)