Winnie Fay Bell

Part Time Faculty

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Winnie Fay Bell

Ph.D.

Contact

Email: winnie.bell@bc.edu

ORCID

Education

  • Ph.D., Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Tufts University
  • M.P.H., School of Medicine, Tufts University
  • M.Sc., Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Tufts University
  • B.A., Northeastern University

Courses

  • ENVS3315 Sustainable Agriculture

Research Interests

Sustainable food systems; Environmental impacts of diets; Measuring nutritional quality of school meals; Metric and tool development for dietary assessment; Consumer preferences.

Curriculum Vitae

Biography

Winnie Bell is a public health nutrition specialist with 15 years of experience in international nutrition research. Her research spans various topics including dietary assessment, food security, food preferences and values, metric development, school feeding, environmental impacts of diets, and sustainable and equitable food systems.

Winnie teaches ENVS 3315 鈥淪ustainable Agriculture鈥� at 艾可直播 College, which takes a field to fork perspective and considers the entire food system. In addition, she currently works as a Senior Technical Advisor at Intake 鈥� Center for Dietary Assessment, and has been serving as an Editor for the journal Frontiers in Nutrition research topic 鈥淢easuring Diets and Food Choice in the Context of a Changing World鈥�.

Winnie has prior professional experience at Tufts University, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, and the World Food Program as part of the Food Security Information Network (FSIN). She has extended professional experience in Bangladesh, Cameroon, Ghana,Italy, Kenya, Senegal, and Viet Nam.

Winnie received her PhD/MSc from the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University in Food Policy and Applied Nutrition, and holds an MPH in Epidemiology and Biostatistics from School of Medicine at Tufts University.

Recent select publications:

  1. Schneider, K. R., Bellows, A., Downs, S., Bell, W., Ambikapathi, R., Nordhagen, S., Branca, F., Masters, W. A., & Fanzo, J. C. (2023). Inequity in access to healthy foods. The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN). Food System Economics Commission.
  2. Coates J., Bell W., Bakun P., Adams, K.P., Som茅, J.W., Colaiezzi, B.A., Do, H.T.P., and Rogers, B.L. Accuracy and cost-effectiveness of the INDDEX24 Dietary Assessment Platform in Viet Nam. British Journal of Nutrition. 2023;129(10):1751-1764.
  3. Adams K.P., Bell W., Som茅 J.W., Colaiezzi, B.A., Wafa, S., Rogers, B.L., and Coates, J.C. The cost and cost efficiency of conducting a 24-h dietary recall using INDDEX24, a mobile dietary assessment platform, compared with pen-and-paper interview in Viet Nam and Burkina Faso. British Journal of Nutrition. 2023;129(3):535-549.
  4. Rogers, B.L., Som茅, J.W., Bakun, P., Adams, K.P., Bell, W., Wafa, S., and Coates, J.C. Validation of the INDDEX24 mobile app vs. a pen-and-paper 24-hour dietary recall using the weighed food record as a benchmark in Burkina Faso. British Journal of Nutrition, 1-42.
  5. Bell W., Coates, J., Fanzo, J., Wilson, N., Masters, WA. (2021). 鈥淏eyond price and income: preferences and food values in peri-urban Viet Nam鈥� Appetite, 166, 105439.
  6. Bell W., Lividini K., Masters, WA. (2021) 鈥淕lobal dietary convergence from 1970 to 2010 altered inequality in agriculture, nutrition, and health鈥� Nature Food, 2(3), 156-165.
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