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Jennifer Coates, PhD is an Associate Professor of Food Policy and Applied Nutrition at Tufts University’s Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, and a Senior Researcher at the Feinstein International Center. Her work focuses on improving the design and evaluation of international nutrition and food security programs, particularly in development and humanitarian contexts. She develops methods for scaling dietary data collection (e.g., INDDEX24 platform), assesses food affordability metrics in Africa, and evaluates micronutrient programs globally. Dr. Coates holds leadership roles in UN inter-agency groups on food security measurement and agricultural statistics.
Education: PhD and MS in Food Policy & Applied Nutrition from Tufts (2006, 2000), BA in International Relations from Tufts (1994). She teaches courses on nutrition program monitoring, food security, and development at the Friedman School.
Research Interests: Food policy design, program evaluation, nutrition equity, and sustainable development. Her work emphasizes low-resource settings and integrates technology for scalable data collection methods.
Key Contributions: INDDEX project to standardize dietary assessments, IANDA initiative on diet affordability metrics, and ACFA/GAIN partnerships for nutritional impact evaluation. Her research bridges academia and policy, impacting global health programs.
