Kate Schneider
Research Scholar
DCS Co-Faculty Lead
About
Dr. Kate Schneider is an applied microeconomist and public health nutritionist. She studies food policy and food systems as a Research Scholar at Johns Hopkins University in the School of Advanced International Studies where she also co-leads the focus area on Development, Climate, and Sustainability. Her interests are specifically focused on food (and agriculture) policy and economics related to poverty, healthy diets, and welfare outcomes in low- and middle-income countries as well as in the United States. Her current work focuses on equity in access to healthy diets, agrifood system transformations, and labor in agrifood systems.
Dr. Schneider completed her PhD in food policy and applied nutrition at Tufts University in the Friedman School of Nutrition Science & Policy. Prior to her PhD, Dr. Schneider spent five years at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation as a program officer in agricultural development. Her work there involved a wide range of issues including gender, food systems, nutrition, environment, data, policy research, evaluation, and measurement. She holds a Master of Public Administration and a Certificate in International Development from the Evans School of Public Policy & Governance at the University of Washington where she conducted food, agriculture, and development policy research. She completed a Bachelor of Arts in sociology at McGill University.
Dr. Schneider completed her PhD in food policy and applied nutrition at Tufts University in the Friedman School of Nutrition Science & Policy. Prior to her PhD, Dr. Schneider spent five years at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation as a program officer in agricultural development. Her work there involved a wide range of issues including gender, food systems, nutrition, environment, data, policy research, evaluation, and measurement. She holds a Master of Public Administration and a Certificate in International Development from the Evans School of Public Policy & Governance at the University of Washington where she conducted food, agriculture, and development policy research. She completed a Bachelor of Arts in sociology at McGill University.
Publications
Schneider, K., Fanzo, J., Haddad, L., et al. (2023) “The state of food systems worldwide in the countdown to 2030.” Nature Food 4(12).
Schneider, K., Webb, P., Christiaensen, L., & Masters, W. (2023) “Assessing the affordability of nutrient-adequate diets.” American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 105, 2. doi:10.1111/ajae.12334.
Cliffer, I., Marshak, A., Schneider, K., Venkat, A., Naimova, E. (2023). “Seasonality of nutrition.” Encyclopedia of Human Nutrition, 4th Edition. Cambridge, MA: Academic Press.
Ambikapathi, R., Schneider, K., Davis, B., Herrero, M., Winters, P., Fanzo, J. (2022) “Global food system transitions and patterns in the last decades: what have we learned so far? A Country Level Perspective.” Nature Food, 3, 764–779.
Schneider, K. (2022) “Nationally representative estimates of the cost of adequate diets, nutrient level drivers, and policy options for households in rural Malawi.” Food Policy, 102275. doi:10.1016/j.foodpol.2022.102275
Fanzo, J., Haddad, L., Schneider, K., et al. (2021). Viewpoint: Rigorous monitoring is necessary to meet the food system transformation challenge in the countdown to 2030 global goals. Food Policy, 104, 102163. doi:10.1016/j.foodpol.2021.102163
Schneider, K., Fanzo, J., Haddad, L., Rosero Moncayo, J. (2021). Global health has a stake in the upcoming UN Food Systems Summit. Lancet S0140-6736(21)02047-X. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(21)02047-X.
Schneider, K., Webb, P., Christiaensen, L., & Masters, W. (2021) Assessing diet quality when families share their meals: Evidence from Malawi. Journal of Nutrition nxab287. doi:10.1093/jn/nxab287
Schneider, K., Oslund, J., & Liu, T. (2021). The impact of the Community Eligibility Provision on School Meal Participation in Texas. Public Health Nutrition, 1-9. doi:10.1017/S1368980021003712
Seymour, G., Masuda, Y., Williams, J., Schneider, K. (2019). Household and child nutrition outcomes among the time and income poor in Bangladesh. Global Food Security, (20), 82-92. doi:1016/j.gfs.2019.01.004
Pingali, P., Schneider, K., Zurek, M. (2014). “Poverty, agriculture and the environment: the case of sub-Saharan Africa.” Marginality: Addressing the Nexus of Poverty, Exclusion and Ecology. New York: Springer.