Nathalie Lambrecht, PhD

Nathalie Lambrecht will begin her fellowship in October 2024. She joins us from the Institute of Public Health, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin and the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research.

Nathalie completed her PhD in Nutritional Sciences at the University of Michigan School of Public Health, where she assessed intersections of small-holder livestock rearing, zoonotic disease exposure, and child nutrition. During her PhD, she also contributed to the University of Michigan President’s Commission on Carbon Neutrality Food Analysis Team. Nathalie’s research focuses on climate-resilient agricultural interventions to improve maternal and child nutrition in low-resource settings. She also conducts research on the nutritional quality and environmental footprint of food service in institutional settings such as universities and hospitals, identifying pathways toward the adoption of diets in line with planetary health. 

During her fellowship, Nathalie will assess agroecological strategies to increase resilience against climate-related shocks. Such strategies could inform future policies for improved child nutrition and planetary health. She will focus on sub-Saharan Africa, exploring how approaches such as diversified crop-livestock production can improve child and adolescent nutrition and build food security in the face of increasing climate-related precipitation shocks.