Researcher
Tufts University
Bree is a current doctoral candidate in Nutrition Epidemiology and Data Science at Tufts University. Her research focuses on how recurring natural disasters and environmental changes are shaping food security and nutrition over time. She specializes in spatial and epidemiological data linkages, dynamic mapping, and the usability of climate and disaster data for nutrition and public health research. She has had over 10 years of research and analytic experience including work on large-scale field trials in Burkina Faso and Sierra Leone as part of the Food Aid Quality Review project. She is a former Tufts Institute of the Environment fellow and a current fellow with the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture studying recurring flooding and household food access in Central Java, Indonesia.