Assistant Professor
Rutgers University, School of Public Health
Shauna Downs, PhD, MS is an Assistant Professor at Rutgers School of Public Health. Her research focuses on three main areas: 1) the design, impact and implementation of interventions aimed at promoting sustainable diets; 2) measuring food environments in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) and their influence on sustainable diets; and 3) examining the links among climate, food systems, diets and nutrition. She conducts research in India, Senegal, Myanmar, Kenya, Canada and the US using mixed-methods approaches. Prior to coming to Rutgers, Shauna was a Hecht-Levi Fellow with the Global Food Ethics and Policy Program at the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics and an Earth Institute Fellow at Columbia University. Shauna received her PhD in Public Health from the Menzies Centre for Health Policy at the University of Sydney and has a Master’s of Science in Nutrition from the University of Alberta, Canada.