Meet the Task Team
Next Gen(D)eration of Leaders for a Well-Nourished World is a new initiative that builds on the experience of professional women working in the field of nutrition and food systems to power courageous leadership practices more broadly. It is currently managed by a Task Team of 11 from research, academia, and non-governmental organizations with nutrition and food system backgrounds.
CORINNA HAWKES
Co-Founder
Professor, Director, Centre for Food Policy
City, University London, UK
Twitter: @CorinnaHawkes
linkedin.com/in/corinna-hawkes-79b6ba130
SHU WEN NG
Co-Founder
Associate Professor, Department of Nutrition, Gilling School of Global Public Health
Fellow, Carolina Population Center
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC), USA
Twitter: @ShuWenNg
linkedin.com/in/shu-wen-ng-6330406
ANNE MARIE THOW
Task Team Member
Associate Professor, Public Policy and Health
University of Sydney
Australia
PURNIMA MENON
Task Team Member
Senior Research Fellow and Theme Leader for South Asia Nutrition Programs in IFPRI’s Poverty, Health and Nutrition Division,
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
New Delhi, India
Twitter: @PMenonIFPRI
NAMUKOLO COVIC
Task Team Member
Senior Research Coordinator
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
President: African Nutrition Society.
Editor: Global Food Security Journal.
Twitter:@NamukoloC
ANA CLARA DURAN
Task Team Member
Research Scientist, Center for Food Studies and Research, University of Campinas (UNICAMP)
Assistant Professor, Graduate Program in Collective Health, School of Medical Sciences, University of Campinas
Research Fellow, Center for Epidemiological Studies in Nutrition in Health, University of Sao Paulo (USP)
Brazil
Twitter: @anacduran
CARMEN TORRES LEDEZMA
Task Team Member
ELAINE Q. BORAZON
Task Team Member
Assistant Professor, International Graduate Program of Education and Human Development, College of Social Sciences, National Sun Yat-sen University Kaohsiung City, Taiwan
KATHRYN BACKHOLER
Task Team Member
Associate Professor, Institute for Health Transformation
Associate Director, Global Obesity Centre
Deakin University
Victoria, Australia
Twitter: @KBackholer
CATHERINE L. MAH
Task Team Member
Canada Research Chair in Promoting Healthy Populations
Associate Professor, School of Health Administration, Dalhousie University
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Twitter: @catherinemah
REBECCA NAMARA
Task Team Member