Andrea L. S. Bulungu, PhD
Dr Andrea Bulungu is a public health nutrition researcher based in Uganda and was a recipient of the Brown School Emerging Leader Award in 2015. Her research focuses on methods and interventions for measuring and addressing the drivers of maternal and child nutrition in resource-poor settings. She's especially passionate about the intersection of nutrition with maternal mental health, early childhood development, women's work, and the food environment. She has a broad background in human nutrition, with specific expertise in diet, time use, and food price assessment, and innovative methods such as automated wearable cameras and crowdsourcing. She is a long-time nutrition consultant for the World Bank and, in addition to Uganda, has experience working on nutrition programming, policy and research in Cambodia, Ecuador, Ethiopia, Guatemala, Haiti, India, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Madagascar, Myanmar, Nigeria, Papua New Guinea, Senegal, and Sierra Leone.