Lindsay Jaacks

I am formally trained in nutrition and epidemiology. For the first decade of my career, I studied how what we eat affects weight gain and the development of type 2 diabetes. More recently, I have transitioned to studying food systems, trying to understand how the way we produce, process and procure food affects our health and wellbeing. I am Professor of Global Health and Nutrition at the Global Academy of Agriculture and Food Systems at the University of Edinburgh and an Adjunct faculty member in the Department of Global Health and Population at Harvard University.