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Anna Lartey, PhD

Professor
University of Ghana
Legon, Greater Accra, Ghana

Anna Lartey is a Professor of Nutrition, University of Ghana and a former Director of Nutrition at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, Italy from October 2013 to December 2020, where she led FAO’s work on Food Systems for Nutrition. She worked as a nutrition researcher in Sub-Saharan Africa for over 27 years. Her research focussed on maternal and child nutrition. Anna Lartey won the University of Ghana’s “Best Researcher Award for 2004”. She held the International Development Research Center (IDRC, Canada) Research Chair in Nutrition for Health and Socioeconomic Development in Sub-Saharan Africa (2009-2014). Anna Lartey was the President of the International Union of Nutritional Sciences (IUNS, 2013-2017). Anna Lartey was awarded a Doctor of Science degree, honoris causa, by McGill University in June 2018. In December 2022, Anna Lartey received the International Union of Nutritional Sciences Lifetime Achievement Award for outstanding contribution to nutrition of regional and global significant working in a developing country.

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