Person

Jessica Meeker

Jessica Meeker

Knowledge Manager

Jessica is a nutritionist with research interests in malnutrition in all its forms, sustainable food systems and nutrition policy. She works as a Knowledge Manager in the Knowledge, Impact and Policy team, leading projects with a focus on knowledge translation, stakeholder engagement and policy influence across South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. Jessica also leads the nutrition MSc module and teaches on many of the IDS professional short courses.

Before joining IDS, Jessica worked in the Policy and Advocacy department for Save the Children UK and at the Centre for International Health and Development, UCL.

Research

Project

FRESH

Poor diets are a primary cause of malnutrition and the leading cause of diseases worldwide. Improving diets, including increasing fruit and vegetable intake, could save one in five lives lost annually. Micronutrients and dietary fibre are essential for health; micronutrients from fruit and...

Project

Systems Change Evaluation of the Food Culture Alliance

Food is more than a source of nutrients and energy; it plays a significant part in all aspects of human life, including in social interactions, emotions and psychological processes. Food has long been recognised as a powerful vehicle to express one’s identity, culture and lifestyle choices....

Project

Covid-19 Responses for Equity (CORE) Knowledge Translation Support

This knowledge translation project aims to increase the visibility, support and uptake of research generated by IDRC’s cohort of CORE research projects, to foster evidence-based policymaking for response to and recovery from the socio-economic impacts of Covid-19.

Opinions

Publications

Brief

Fiscal Measures to Support Post-Pandemic Resilience

Research for Policy and Practice Report

Now that the dust has begun to settle on the Covid-19 pandemic, it is time to reflect on and draw lessons from country experiences in pandemic response, in relation to fiscal management and reform. In order to apply these lessons, countries will require increased fiscal space to enable them to...

Jayant Menon & 5 others

7 February 2024

Brief

Covid-19: Key Considerations for a Public Health Response

Briefing;

The Covid-19 pandemic is more than a health crisis. Its long-term economic and societal effects may well outweigh its initial public health impact. It is therefore essential that responses are socially sensitive and attuned to mitigating these secondary effects.

Melissa Leach
Melissa Leach & 4 others

8 September 2020

Jessica Meeker’s recent work

Specialist short course

Shaping Policy with Evidence online course

This six-week online policy course will equip you with the theories and practices required to operate effectively at the interface between policy and research.

From 4 June 2024 until 16 July 2024