Isabel Madzorera

Dr. Isabel Madzorera is an Assistant Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, in the Department of Food, Nutrition and Population Health. She previously worked as a Research Associate at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, focusing on global nutrition and health equity.

• ScD in Nutritional Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
• MS in Food Policy and Applied Nutrition, Tufts University
• BSc in Nutrition, University of Zimbabwe

Her research emphasizes nutrition epidemiology in low-resource settings, particularly addressing diet quality, maternal and child health outcomes, and food systems in sub-Saharan Africa. She explores how dietary patterns and women's empowerment influence chronic disease and pregnancy outcomes.

Recent publications highlight COVID-19's impact on food prices, vaccine hesitancy in healthcare systems, adolescent nutrition in Africa, and agricultural interventions to improve diets. Her work often integrates food systems analysis with public health outcomes.

Dr. Madzorera has extensive field experience in Zimbabwe, Zambia, Malawi, and Ethiopia, collaborating with organizations like Save the Children, the World Bank, and the United Nations.