Food Prices for Nutrition is led by the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University. Its initial four-year grant (2020-24) was conducted in partnership with the World Bank’s Development Data Group and the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). This page lists the ongoing team at Tufts and those with whom we continue to work most closely at international organizations and national governments of focus countries in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.
- William Masters, Principal Investigator
- Anna Herforth, Co-Director
- Alex Knueppel, Project Administrator
- Rachel Gilbert, Graduate researcher
- Leah Costlow, Graduate researcher
- Student consultants
- Collaborators funded by other projects
- Elena Martinez, Postdoctoral Fellow (IMMANA)
- Jessica Wallingford, PhD candidate (Canadian SSHRC Fellow)
- Marko Rissanen, Senior Statistician
- Yan Bai, Economist
- Edie Purdie, Data communications consultant
- Derek Headey, Senior Research Fellow
- Kristi Mahrt, Senior Research Analyst
- Kalyani Raghunathan, Research Fellow
- Timothy Sulser, Senior Research Fellow
- Monitoring the cost and affordability of a healthy diet within countries (global review article)
- Ongoing collaborators (initial focal countries)
Other Collaborations
- The FAO Statistics Division publishes global diet cost and affordability data jointly with the World Bank, and leads each year’s analysis in the UN agencies’ flagship annual report on global food security
- The WFP’s Fill the Nutrient Gap initiative uses diet cost and affordability data to target nutrition assistance
- The ANH Academy’s Research Community on Food Access offers all researchers a peer-to-peer network for sharing methods, data and results
Other Collaborators at Tufts, the World Bank and IFPRI
- Tufts University: faculty members Steven Block, Jennifer Coates, Elena Naumova, Shibani Ghosh, Patrick Webb; former students & staff Robel Alemu, Alissa Ebel, Sarah Laves, Hallie Perlick, Kate Schneider, Yurika Ueda, Aishwarya Venkat, Natalie Volin, Maya Zamek
- World Bank: Maurice Nsabimana, Inyoung Song, Rui Costa, Elizabeth Purdie
- IFPRI: Harold Alderman, Kalle Hirvonen, Will Martin
Funders
The Food Prices for Nutrition project (2020-2024, with a supplement for 2024-2025) is funded as INV-016158 by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and UKAid, through the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office of the United Kingdom. We received additional funding from FAO for the specific data & methods used in the SOFI 2020, 2021 and 2022 reports, and from USAID for work in Malawi and worldwide.
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