Meet Professor Jessica Fanzo

Professor Jessica Fanzo is the first Bloomberg Distinguished associate professor of Ethics and Global Food & Agriculture, joining Johns Hopkins this past summer. This new professorship partners together Johns Hopkins SAIS, the Berman Institute of Bioethics, and the School of Public Health in an integration of issues of food, agriculture, nutrition, ethics, and international development.

Professor Fanzo will be teaching courses on rural development and global food policy to engage students in exploring the critical challenges in ethically ensuring that the world’s growing population receives access to sufficient and nutritious food. As a working member of the Global Food Ethics Initiative, Professor Fanzo brings her expertise in addressing the challenges of food and health systems inequity, environmental impacts of current diets, conflict-driven food insecurity, sustainable climate-smart agriculture, farming as a livelihood, and ethical implications. 

Professor Fanzo previously served as a Professor at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) and Institute of Human Nutrition, and as the Nutrition Policy Advisor for the Center for Globalization and Sustainable Development. She has provided counsel for the United Nations World Food Programme, World Health Organization, UNICEF, and World Bank.