Christopher Golden

Associate Professor of Nutrition and Planetary Health
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Harvard Univeristy

Dr. Christopher Golden is an Associate Professor of Planetary Health and Nutrition at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. As an ecologist and epidemiologist, his research investigates the human health impacts of global environmental change, with a focus on food systems. He received his BA from Harvard College and two graduate degrees from UC Berkeley: an MPH in Epidemiology with a focus in Nutrition, and a PhD in Environmental Science, Policy and Management. Golden has been conducting research in Madagascar since 1999, and founded the non-profit Madagascar Health and Environmental Research (MAHERY). He is the Director of the Program in Nutrition and Planetary Health at the Harvard School of Public Health, and sits on the faculty board for the Center for Climate, Health and the Global Environment and the Center for Research on Computation and Society. He is a core member of the CBD-WHO task force on biodiversity and health and the co-lead of the Nutrition chapter for the Blue Foods Assessment. His research has been published in Nature, Science, and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. His current research focuses on: 1) the role of climate-smart fisheries management to improve human nutrition, and 2) creating systems of climate-smart public health through climate and environmental monitoring and disease surveillance. More recently, Chris led the development of the Aquatic Food Composition Database which provides nutrient composition data for more than 3,000 species of aquatic life.