Leah Salm is a Research Officer within the Health and Nutrition Cluster. Leah’s research centers around malnutrition, food systems, food equity and nutrition policy.
Leah works as an evidence synthesis specialist for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation funded project Transform Nutrition West Africa which aims to generate and mobilize high quality evidence and build nutrition decision making capacity in the West Africa region.
Leah is also leading a mixed-methods study of childhood obesity in Brighton & Hove. A whole-systems perspective is being applied to understand the trends and enabling environment context.
Leah is also collaborating with the Agricultural Policy Research in Africa (APRA) project, whereby she is considering the food and nutrition equity challenges for famers across Sub-Saharan Africa during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Prior to working at IDS, Leah worked at the International Food Policy Research Institute in Washington DC, where she contributed to The Lancet Double Burden of Malnutrition Series.
