Do you want to improve food policy and food security and nutrition outcomes in industrialized and developing countries?

Growing concern about the impacts of our food system on the environment, and a range of food justice issues facing both disadvantaged producers and consumers, has created opportunities for professional with expertise in policy, law, and project and program management to identify and support solutions to improve the food system along a variety of interrelated issues, from energy and transportation to the environment, to public health and nutrition, to economic development.

Sample Organizations Where Friedman School Alumni Work

  • Harvard University Office of Sustainability
  • Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy
  • Wright Locke Farm Conservancy, Inc.
  • Massachusetts Department of Transitional Assistance
  • SNAP Outreach Interagency Specialist
  • Director of Communication
  • The Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity
  • Center For Science in the Public Interest
  • Edesia Nutrition
  • Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research
  • Center for Health Information and Analysis
  • Project Bread
  • General Mills
  • Inter-Island Public Health Excellence Collaborative 
  • Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET)
  • Public Consulting Group
  • Mathematica
  • US Dept of State
  • Food Research and Action Center
  • Syneos Health
  • Hawaii State Dept of Health
  • Compass Group
  • United States Department of Agriculture
  • United States Department of the Interior
  • Alliance for Fair Food
  • American Farmland Trust
  • Center for Food Safety
  • Center for Science in the Public Interest
  • Results for Development (R4D)
  • Massachusetts Health Policy Commission

  • Sustainability Manager
  • Food and Agriculture Policy Research Assistant
  • Senior Science Policy Associate
  • Nutrition Research and Policy Manager
  • Associate Manager, Strategy and Research
  • Project Manager
  • Consumer & Market Intelligence Associate
  • Community and Population Health Specialist
  • Senior Food Security Analyst
  • Business Analyst
  • Director of Communication
  • Research Analyst
  • Strategic Information Officer
  • Sr Clinical Data associate
  • Preventions Programs Coordinator
  • Director of Global Culinary Projects
  • Chief Program Officer
  • Managing Director of Impact and ESG
  • Program Officer, Global Nutrition
  • Manager-Health Policy

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