Lindsey Wise

Lindsey Wise

Lindsey Wise’s work in the field of public health nutrition began at the Brown School working with Dr. Lora Iannotti. Lindsey built on her practicum experience with Meds and Food for Kids in St. Louis, and she was awarded the Mickey Leland International Hunger Fellowship at the UN World Food Programme in Cambodia in 2011. She has worked with the UN World Food Programme (WFP) at sub-national, national, regional, and global levels over the past 10 years serving in different capacities to tackle malnutrition in all its forms. Lindsey is joining the Nutrition Division in 2022 to take on a new role as the Deputy of the Nutrition Integration team within the Nutrition Division. Her work will focus on enhancing the nutrition sensitivity of WFP’s food security programmes, such as school meals and social protection, as well as supporting efforts to tackle the double burden of malnutrition and address equity gaps in delivery of services to vulnerable groups.

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