Sabri Bromage

Institute of Nutrition at Mahidol University, Department of Nutrition at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

I am a nutritional epidemiologist whose research focuses on developing and scaling-up tools, methods, and coordinated institutional capacity for conducting population nutrition surveys in low- and middle-income countries, with emphasis on dietary assessment, quantitative methods, and exploratory (hypothesis-generating) approaches. My second area of interest involves environmental nutrition, studying relationships between human nutrition and the environment (generalized to include natural and food environments) and nutritional ecology (the flow of nutrients between ecological media) at multiple geospatial and ecological scales.I have 10+ years of post-masters experience and have conducted and directed 6+ years of in-country international research with universities, research centers, and NGOs in Mongolia, Bangladesh, and Thailand where I gained experience managing research programs, organizing international conferences and workshops; educating diverse audiences in theoretical and applied concepts in nutritional epidemiology and research dietetics; and conducting high-level policy advocacy. I have led or co-led preparation of grant proposals that have collectively provided 2.1 million USD in funding, published 56 peer-reviewed research articles or reviews, and have conducted trainings or supervision for approximately 400 students, researchers, and professionals.I am primarily affiliated as a Researcher in the Community Nutrition Unit at the Institute of Nutrition, Mahidol University (INMU), and am also a Member of Mahidol University’s Global Talent Program. I am secondarily affiliated as a Research Associate in the Department of Nutrition and an NIH Fogarty Global Health Fellow in the Department of Global Health & Population at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. I am passionate about developing partnerships for research and academic exchange at INMU, and welcome opportunities from interested collaborators.I received a BA in Chemistry from New York University, MPH in International Health / Epidemiology from the University of Michigan, Doctor of Science in Nutrition from Harvard University funded by an NIH National Research Service Award, and postdoctoral training at Harvard funded by NIH and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. As a doctoral student, I trained over 200 students to assess diet across Mongolia and successfully advocated for expansion of the country’s food fortification law. As a postdoc, I directed a 2-year project that produced the Global Diet Quality Score (GDQS). I was nominated for full membership in Sigma Xi in 2021. 

Teresa Fung, ScD, RD

Professor of Nutrition at Simmons University, Adjunct Professor in the Department of Nutrition at Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health

Teresa Fung received her BS and MS in nutrition from Cornell University, and her ScD in both nutrition and epidemiology from the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health.  She began her career as a Registered Dietician at Yale-New Haven Hospital. Currently, she is Professor of Nutrition at Simmons University and Adjunct Professor of Nutrition at the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health. In the last 20 years, her research has focused on methodology that assesses the quality of the entire diet, in particular, the development of a number of diet quality indexes. She also examines the association of various diet quality indexes and risk of chronic disease such as diabetes, cancer, cardiovascular disease, elderly fracture, and weight change.  She has served as a member of a technical expert committee at USDA, an Associate Editor for the Journal of Nutrition, and a member of the Best Diet panel at U.S. News and World Report.  

Sharon Kirkpatrick, PhD, RD

University of Waterloo, School of Public Health and Health Systems

Understanding people’s eating patterns—including what they eat and drink and the contextual influences—is essential to better elucidating the diet-health nexus, as well as how to support eating patterns consistent with human and planetary health. The main focus of Dr. Kirkpatrick's work is on improving and disseminating strategies for appropriately collecting, analyzing, and interpreting dietary intake data. This work has been supported by a Capacity Development Award from the Canadian Cancer Society and an Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation Early Researcher Award, among other sources. Dr. Kirkpatrick's work also explores the utility of systems thinking and methods to better understand the array of factors that influence major nutrition challenges, and the effectiveness of interventions to address these challenges, as well as unintended consequences of well-meaning policies. She works with colleagues and trainees to advance these areas, with a growing focus on planetary, in addition to, human health. Furthermore, she has long-standing interests in food access among marginalized populations.

Walter C. Willett, MD, DrPH

Professor of Epidemiology and Nutrition at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School

Dr. Willett studied food science at Michigan State University, and graduated from the University of Michigan Medical School before obtaining a Masters and Doctorate in Public Health from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Dr. Willett has focused much of his work over the last 40 years on the development and evaluation of methods, using both questionnaire and biochemical approaches, to study the effects of diet on the occurrence of major diseases.  He has applied these methods starting in 1980 in the Nurses’ Health Studies I and II and the Health Professionals Follow-up Study.  Together, these cohorts that include nearly 300,000 men and women with repeated dietary assessments, are providing the most detailed information on the long-term health consequences of food choices. Dr. Willett has published over 1,900 original research papers and reviews, primarily on lifestyle risk factors for heart disease, cancer, and other conditions and has written the textbook, Nutritional Epidemiology, published by Oxford University Press, now in its third edition. He also has written four books for the general public. Dr. Willett is the most cited nutritionist internationally.  He is a member of the National Academy of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences and the recipient of many national and international awards for his research.