Jody Harris holds research leadership positions exploring the practice, politics and ethics of food and nutrition policy, with an academic background across public health nutrition and public policy.

Through her work, she brings an equity and ethics lens to understanding how people can eat healthily, from socio-political perspectives. Jody’s work investigates policy processes in international, national and local food policy contexts, and considers equity and broader ethical issues in nutrition for development, with a focus on enabling healthy diets for all. Her academic and activist background can be seen here.

In the Health and Nutrition Cluster at the Institute of Development Studies, she has focused on developing a multi-disciplinary theory of equity for nutrition, and empirical work on the right to nutrition and the politics and ethics of food and nutrition policy. Jody co-convenes the Food Equity Centre, a collaboration among leading actors in food security and social justice working to develop solutions to inequities in food systems.

Her research builds on over fifteen years of engagement in the fields of international nutrition and food policy, and both academic and implementation work in different global spaces. Jody has over 50 peer-reviewed publications, book chapters and edited volumes for academic audiences which have been cited over 3000 times, and she often translates her work for policy, technical and lay audiences. She supervises PhD students with an interest in equitable food systems and public policy. Her publication record can be found on Google Scholar.