Transformations of Global Food Systems for Climate Change Resilience: Addressing Food Security, Nutrition, and Health [Paperback]

This book discusses the unique role of anthropologists in taking a global, collaborative, and interdisciplinary response to addressing the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) to eliminate global hunger and poverty crises and achieve good health and wellbeing for all.

Preety Gadhoke, PhD, MPH, at the beginning of this project, was an Associate Professor in the College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences at St. Johns University in New York City. She is currently an independent scholar with expertise in interdisciplinary, community-based, multi-level programs and policies that address social determinants of health and health equity for marginalized populations. She has worked on public health programs with Indigenous and urban communities in North America (Native Americans/Alaska Natives, Baltimore, New York, Chicago), South America (Ecuador), Asia (Thailand), and Africa (Ghana, Nigeria, Mozambique). Dr. Gadhoke is the recipient of the 2020 Fulbright Global Research Fellowship and 2019 Catholic Relief Services Global Health Research Award. In her academic career, she has served the scientific community with the American Anthropology Association (AAA), Agriculture, Food, and Human Values Society, and Society for Applied Anthropology, American Public Health Association, and an appointed member of AAAs Presidential Task Force on World Food Problems. At St. Johns University, she served as an Interim Director of the Master of Public Health Program and mentor for the Ozanam Scholars program, McNair Scholars program, Master of Arts degree program in Global Development and Social Justice, and Senior Fellow, Vincentian Center for Church and Society. Dr. Gadhoke is extensively published in public health and anthropology, presented numerous papers at international and national scientific conferences, and served as a reviewer for multiple journals. She brings cross-cutting perspectives to academia from multilateral, governmental, and induslƒ"