The Gerald J. and Dorothy R. Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, established in 1981, is among the world's leading graduate and professional schools of nutrition. Its mission is to improve the nutritional well-being of people worldwide through the creation of new knowledge, its application and dissemination, and the education and training of future leaders in the field. Faculty, students and staff at the school include physicians and other health practitioners, biomedical and clinical scientists, nutritionists and epidemiologists, agricultural and environmental scientists, economists, psychologists and others whose work on food and nutrition contributes to the sustainable, equitable development of human societies.

What You'll Do

This is a limited term position until October 31, 2029. 

This Policy Researcher position offers an exciting and challenging opportunity to inform food policy in Africa, South Asia and worldwide through a project entitled National Actions to Improve Affordability of Healthy Diets. The project will be implemented in close collaboration with the Faculty Affairs Officer (FAO) and country partners, using funds from the Gates Foundation and the United Kingdom’s Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office to help identify the most promising steps towards universal access to sufficiently nutritious food for lifelong health. This National Actions project is a successor to Food Prices for Nutrition (2020-25) that developed the Cost and Affordability of Healthy Diets (CoAHD) metrics of food access published in its current form since 2022 by FAO and the World Bank for global monitoring, and since 2024 by national government agencies to monitor variation within Nigeria, Ethiopia, Malawi, Ghana, Pakistan and elsewhere.