Lora Iannotti is the Lauren and Lee Fixel Distinguished Professor at WashU School of Public Health and founding director of the E3 Nutrition Lab. Her lab aims to identify nutrition solutions that embrace principles embodied in the three E’s:  equity, environment and evolution. Iannotti leads projects in Ecuador, Haiti and Madagascar where she collaborates with local partners to test innovative approaches to achieving sustainable, healthy dietary patterns that improve the growth and brain development of young children. Her research related to animal-source foods has informed the global discourse on nutrition equity, climate change and planetary boundaries, which are the limits that critical processes must stay within to maintain a stable and resilient Earth.

Iannotti is co-director of the Food and Agriculture Research Mission (FARM) at WashU School of Public Health and director of Planetary Health at WashU’s Center for the Environment. She serves on and provides expert advice to global working groups that inform policy on maternal and child nutrition, including the World Health Organization Guidelines Development Group for Complementary Feeding, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization’s initiatives related to animal-source foods and human health, and the USAID Feed the Future Fish Innovation Lab. Iannotti received her doctorate from the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, and a Master’s of Arts in Foreign Affairs from the University of Virginia. 

Areas of Focus:

  • Maternal and child nutrition
  • Sustainable, healthy agrifood systems
  • Animal source food interventions

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