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ABOUT ME

Bianca Carducci is a nutrition scientist, specializing in the linkage between food systems, nutrition, and environmental sustainability. Bianca received her PhD from University of Toronto in Nutritional Sciences with a Collaborative Specialization in Global Health where her dissertation aimed to improve the understanding of the food environment and its relationship with diet-related health outcomes in school-aged children and adolescents in low- and middle- income countries, using Pakistan as a case study. In addition, she holds a Master of Science in Nutritional Sciences from University of Guelph. Prior to her PhD, Dr. Carducci worked at SickKids Centre for Global Child Health for eight years conducting research and capacity building in low- and middle- income countries on effective health and nutrition interventions for women, children and adolescents. Most recently, she was a Canadian Institutes of Health Research Banting Postdoctoral Fellow at Berman Institute of Bioethics and Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University. At Columbia University's Climate School, she is working to expand the Food for Humanity Initiative. This includes developing cut-offs for food system indicators to measure and monitor performance particularly as it relates to sustainable and healthy diets and nutrition; just transformations for healthy food systems, including economic and policy incentives; as well as modelling the effect of climate variability on crops and dietary diversity.

EDUCATION

2018-2022

Doctor of Philosophy

Nutritional Sciences
University of Toronto

Thesis: The Relationship Between Food Environments and Nutritional Status in School-aged Children and Adolescents in Low- and Middle- Income Countries: Evidence from Sindh, Pakistan
 

Collaborative Specialization in Global Health

2012-2013

Master of Science

Human Health and Nutrition

University of Guelph

Research on the inter-modal reliability and usability of a nutrition risk screen tool for preschoolers, Nutri-eSTEP, the online NutriSTEP® in collaboration with Dietitians of Canada

2007-2011

Bachelor of Science

University of Toronto

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

POSTDOCTORAL SCIENTIST

July 2023 - July 2024

 

Columbia Climate School, Columbia University

CIHR BANTING POSTDOCTORAL FELLOW

September 2022 - June 2023

Bloomberg School of Public Health and Berman Institute of Bioethics, Johns Hopkins University

RESEARCH ANALYST

April 2021 - May 2022

Centre for Global Child Health, Hospital for Sick Children

RESEARCH COORDINATOR

January 2016 - March 2021

Centre for Global Child Health, Hospital for Sick Children

Centre for Global Child Health, Hospital for Sick Children

RESEARCH ASSISTANT

September 2014 - December 2015

AWARDS

2022        Canadian Institutes of Health Research Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship

2021        International Development Research Centre, Research Ideas Award on Sustainable and Healthy Food Systems

2021       University of Toronto, Student Engagement Award

2020       Ontario Graduate Scholarship

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