I am a doctoral candidate in the Department of Health Promotion, Education, and Behavior at the University of South Carolina's Arnold School of Public Health. I became interested in the sub-Saharan African food environment and drivers of food choice while I was living and working as a global health fellow in Lusaka, Zambia on women's reproductive health and HIV-related projects from 2013-2016 as part of fellowships with a Zambian health nonprofit organization, and later with the US Centers for Disease Control. It was during my time in Zambia that I realized how important nutrition was to overall health and well-being and how much health can be improved through better nutrition. After my stint in Zambia, I entered into a doctoral program to further study the global nutrition transition, and wanted to bring these insights back to the region of the world which inspired this research.
