Isabel Madzorera, a 2005 MMEG grantee from Zimbabwe, is an assistant professor of public health nutrition at the University of California, Berkeley, in the Division of Community Health Sciences. Isabel is a nutrition epidemiologist interested in the intersection of food systems, climate change, diets, and maternal and child nutrition. Her research uses advanced nutrition epidemiologic methods to examine diet quality and ultra-processed food consumption as key modifiable risk factors for poor maternal and child health outcomes globally, including their contributions to non-communicable diseases, such as diabetes and hypertension, across diverse contexts.
Isabel received her doctoral training in nutritional epidemiology from the Harvard School of Public Health, a master’s degree in food policy and applied nutrition from Tufts University, and a bachelor's degree in nutrition from the University of Zimbabwe.
