Bronwen Powell

Dr. Bronwen Powell (she/her) is an Associate professor of Geography, African Studies and Anthropology (courtesy) at Penn State. Broadly, her research examines the social, cultural and environmental drivers of human nutrition, diet and food security. Her recent research focuses on how forests, landscape diversity and land use change contribute to human diet and nutrition. Much of her work is aimed at informing and improving food, nutrition and land use policy to support healthy diets and justice for rural and Indigenous communities. She has worked extensively with international agencies and policy fora, including the High-Level Panel of Experts to UN Committee on World Food Security (CFS), FAO and CGIAR organizations, UN Form on Forests, IUFRO and IPCC. She holds a PhD in Human Nutrition from McGill University, and MSc in Ethnobiology from the Department of Anthropology, University of Kent, Canterbury, England.