Doctoral student
University of Michigan
Zachary Gersten is a doctoral student in the Department of Nutritional Sciences at the University of Michigan School of Public Health, where his doctoral research on fisheries, food systems, and nutrition is funded by a Dow Sustainability Fellowship. Outside of his research, he has taught undergraduate coursework for Health and Society, Nutrition and the Life Cycle, and Public Health Practice. He also led the Michigan University-wide Sustainability and the Environment Initiative and participated in the Department of Nutritional Sciences Curriculum Committee. Prior to Michigan, Zachary was a project administrator at Tufts University Friedman School of Michigan, where he coordinated sponsored research on food and nutrition funded by the Gates Foundation and UKAid. Zachary received his Masters in Public Health from Boston University in 2015, and he received his BA in Biology from Boston University in 2011. He has been awarded graduate Foreign Language and Area Studies fellowships from the US Department of Education to study Wolof and Public Health at Boston University and in Dakar, Senegal.