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Lora Iannotti, PhD (she/her/hers)

Professor
Washington University in St. Louis
St. Louis, Missouri, United States

Dr. Lora Iannotti is a professor at the Brown School in public health and founding director of the E3 Nutrition Lab at Washington University in St. Louis. Her lab aims to identify nutrition solutions that embrace principles embodied in the three E’s: equity, environment, and evolution. Dr. Iannotti leads projects in Ecuador, Haiti, and Madagascar where she collaborates with local partners to test innovative approaches to achieving sustainable, healthy dietary patterns that improve young child growth and brain development. Her research related to animal source foods has informed the global discourse on nutrition equity, climate change, and planetary boundaries. Dr. Iannotti is Director of Planetary Health for the newly launched Center for the Environment at Washington University in St. Louis.

Iannotti serves on global working groups to inform policy on maternal and child nutrition. She was a member of the World Health Organization (WHO) Guidelines Development Group for Complementary Feeding. For the UN Food and Agriculture, she serves as consultant initiatives related to animal source foods and human health. Dr. Lora Iannotti serves as the USAID Feed the Future Fish Innovation Lab’s nutrition advisor, supporting activities with technical contributions on nutrition objectives and methods.

Dr. Iannotti received her doctorate from the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, and a Master of Arts Degree in Foreign Affairs from the University of Virginia.

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