Winnie Bell is a public health nutrition specialist with 15 years of experience in international nutrition research. Her research spans various topics including dietary assessment, food security, food preferences and values, metric development, school feeding, environmental impacts of diets, and sustainable and equitable food systems.

Winnie teaches ENVS 3315 “Sustainable Agriculture” at Boston College, which takes a field to fork perspective and considers the entire food system. In addition, she currently works as a Senior Technical Advisor at Intake – Center for Dietary Assessment, and has been serving as an Editor for the journal Frontiers in Nutrition research topic “Measuring Diets and Food Choice in the Context of a Changing World”.

Winnie has prior professional experience at Tufts University, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, and the World Food Program as part of the Food Security Information Network (FSIN). She has extended professional experience in Bangladesh, Cameroon, Ghana,Italy, Kenya, Senegal, and Viet Nam.

Winnie received her PhD/MSc from the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University in Food Policy and Applied Nutrition, and holds an MPH in Epidemiology and Biostatistics from School of Medicine at Tufts University.