Barcelona, Spain Sept. 20-22 , 2023
2023-09-20 10:00:00
Programme
Herforth Anna EGEA 2023

HERFORTH Anna

Harvard T.H Chan School of Public Health, United States

  • Anna Herforth is a Senior Research Associate at Harvard T.H Chan School of Public Health, and a Visiting Senior Researcher at Wageningen University & Research.
  • She holds a Ph.D. in International Nutrition from Cornell University, M.S. in Food Policy from Tufts University, and a B.S. in Plant Science from Cornell University.
  • She is the Principal Investigator of the Global Diet Quality Project, and Co-Director of the Food Prices for Nutrition project.
  • Dr Herforth is leading initiatives to improve measurement of food systems for healthy diets. She developed the Cost and Affordability of a Healthy Diet indicator that has recently been adopted by the UN FAO as a global food security indicator. She has worked in Africa, South Asia, and Latin America, including with agricultural and indigenous communities.
  • Anna co-founded and co-leads the Agriculture-Nutrition Community of Practice (Ag2Nut), a professional community of over 8,000 members from 130 countries.

Recent publications:

  1. Global Diet Quality Project. 2022. Measuring what the world eats: Insights from a new approach. Geneva: Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN); Boston, MA: Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Department of Global Health and Population. https://doi.org/10.36072/dqq2022 
  2. Herforth A et al. 2022. Methods and options to monitor the cost and affordability of a healthy diet globally. Background paper for the State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2022. Rome: FAO. https://doi.org/10.4060/cc1169en 
  3. Herforth A et al. 2020. Cost and affordability of healthy diets across and within countries. Background paper for the State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2020. FAO, Rome. 
  4. Herforth A et al. Diagnosing the performance of food systems to increase accountability toward healthy diets and environmental sustainability. PLoS One. 2022 Jul 29;17(7):e0270712 
  5. Ma S et al. Most Commonly-Consumed Food Items by Food Group, and by Province, in China: Implications for Diet Quality Monitoring. Nutrients. 2022 Apr 22;14(9):1754. 

EGEA 2023 Programme