Andrea L.S. Bulungu, PhD

Dr. Andrea L.S. Bulungu is a public health nutrition researcher based in Uganda. Andrea works on methods and interventions for measuring and addressing the drivers of maternal and child nutrition in resource-poor settings. She’s especially passionate about the intersection of nutrition with early childhood development, women’s work, and the food environment. She has a broad background in human nutrition, with specific expertise in diet, time use, and food price assessment, and innovative methods such as automated wearable cameras and crowdsourcing. Andrea holds a Ph.D. from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, a master’s degree in public health from Washington University in St Louis, and a bachelor’s degree in art from Indiana University. She is a long-time nutrition consultant for the World Bank and, in addition to Uganda, has experience working on nutrition programming, policy and research in Cambodia, Ecuador, Ethiopia, Guatemala, Haiti, India, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Madagascar, Myanmar, Nigeria, Papua New Guinea, Senegal, and Sierra Leone.