Samira Choudhury
About
Samira joined IRRI in September 2022 as a development economist. She is co-leading WP3 of the Transforming Agrifood Systems in South Asia (TAFSSA) project which is improving access to and affordability of sustainably produced healthy foods through evidence and actions across the food system. She is also co-leading WP2 of the Resilient Cities project which involves building inclusive and sustainable food markets and safeguarding supply chains. She is currently an honorary research fellow at the University of Exeter, UK.
Prior to joining IRRI, she was a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Exeter to support the development of the Health Economics framework aligned to Food Standards Agency policy agenda of food safety, affordability, security and sustainability. She was also a Research Associate at Imperial College London where she worked in the scientific team of the Malabo Montpellier Panel. She was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Food Systems, Health and the Environment at SOAS, University of London where she was involved in the Sustainable and Healthy Food Systems (SHEFS) project. Her research focused on analysing the economic and food systems drivers of fruit and vegetable consumption, primarily using India's National Sample Survey Organization (NSSO) household data. During her Ph.D., she was a research consultant for the Advancing Research on Nutrition and Agriculture (ARENA) project at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).
Education
- B.A. (HONOURS) Economics, Ithaca College, USA 2006
- M.A. Development Economics, University of Sussex, UK 2008
- PhD. Economics, University of Adelaide, Australia 2017
Research
Publications
Choudhury S, Medina-Lara A, Smith R (2022). Antimicrobial resistance and the COVID-19 pandemic. Bull World Health Organ, 100(5), 295-295A
Choudhury S, Medina-Lara A, Smith R, Daniel N (2022). Research on health impacts of chemical contaminants in food. Bull World Health Organ, 100(3), 180-180A.
Choudhury S, Medina-Lara A, Daniel N, Smith R (2022). Seafood safety: a need for greater awareness. Journal of Public Health Research, 11(3).
Choudhury, S., Shankar, B., Aleksandrowicz, L., Tak, M., Dangour, A., 2021. Caste-Based Inequality in Fruit and Vegetables Consumption in India. Food Nutr. Bull. 037957212110268. https://doi.org/10.1177/03795721211026807
Choudhury, S., Shankar, B., Aleksandrowicz, L., Tak, M., Green, R., Harris, F., Scheelbeek, P., Dangour, A., 2020. What underlies inadequate and unequal fruit and vegetable consumption in India? An exploratory analysis. Global Food Security 24, 100332. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gfs.2019.100332
Choudhury, S., Headey, D.D., Masters, W.A., 2019. First foods: Diet quality among infants aged 6–23 months in 42 countries. Food Policy 88, 101762. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodpol.2019.101762
Alae-Carew, C., Bird, F.A., Choudhury, S., Harris, F., Aleksandrowicz, L., Milner, J., Joy, E.JM., Agrawal, S., Dangour, A.D., Green, R., 2019. Future diets in India: A systematic review of food consumption projection studies. Global Food Security 23, 182–190. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gfs.2019.05.006
Choudhury, S., Headey, D.D., 2018. Household dairy production and child growth: Evidence from Bangladesh. Economics & Human Biology 30, 150–161. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ehb.2018.07.001
Choudhury, S., Headey, D., 2017. What drives diversification of national food supplies? A cross-country analysis. Global Food Security 15, 85–93. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gfs.2017.05.005
Kacapyr, E., Choudhury, S., 2006. Determinants of Alcohol Consumption By College Students. New York Economic Review 37, 3–19.