Dr Clare Narrod is the Director of the Risk Analysis program at JIFSAN and leads the monitoring and impact effort associated with the evaluation of JIFSAN's capacity building efforts. She received her Ph.D. in Energy Management and Environmental Policy in 1997 and a Master's Degree in International Development and Appropriate Technology both from the University of Pennsylvania. From 1998-2000 she served as an American Association for the Advancement of Science Risk Analysis Fellow at USDA. Prior to coming to JIFSAN she worked at the International Food Policy Research Institute, the United States Department of Agriculture, and at the Food and Agriculture Organization. She has consulted for the World Bank and the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture. She has field experience in Brazil, China, Costa Rica, Ethiopia, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Nigeria, Thailand, Mali, Mexico, Vietnam, and Zambia. She has taught in Colombia, China, India, Malaysia, Russia, and the US.
She started her career in the government where she conducted and reviewed risk assessments and cost-benefit analyses of proposed and final rules for Agency clearance associated with reducing the risk of animal and plant diseases and improving food safety. Over the years she has conducted research on identifying cost-effective food safety and animal health risk reduction measures for different size producers, understanding the role of public-private partnerships in ensuring the production of safe food so as to improving market access for the poor, and measuring the impact of capacity building efforts on improving food safety. She has also analyzed the roles of public and private sectors in providing research investment in the livestock sector, the role of technology transfer in increasing global livestock productivity, and understanding the impact of the livestock industrialization process on smallholders and the environment. Currently she is involved in research associated with monitoring and impact evaluation of various food safety capacity building efforts as well as conducting risk analysis associated with food safety hazards.
In addition to her work at JIFSAN she is also a Scientific Advisory Board Member of the Institute for Food and Agricultural Literacy at UC Davis, World Food Center and on the Board of Directors for the Center for Foodborne Illness, Research & Prevention. In the past she has been a working group member on a Global Food Ethics Project at John Hopkins Berman Institute for Bioethics, a member of the expert panel for a Global Regulatory Competency and Curricula, and a consensus committee member of the National Academy of Science on the Institute of Medicine’s study on "Strengthening Core Elements of Food Safety Regulatory Systems in Developing Countries."
She started her career in the government where she conducted and reviewed risk assessments and cost-benefit analyses of proposed and final rules for Agency clearance associated with reducing the risk of animal and plant diseases and improving food safety. At JIFSAN she continues to train individuals in conducting research that supports the use of risk based decision-making in a country's rule making process. Over the years she has conducted research on identifying cost-effective food safety and animal health risk reduction measures for different size producers, understanding the role of public-private partnerships in ensuring the production of safe food so as to (was improving) improve market access for the poor, and measuring the impact of capacity building efforts on improving food safety. She has also analyzed the roles of public and private sectors in providing research investment in the livestock sector, the role of technology transfer in increasing global livestock productivity, and understanding the impact of the livestock industrialization process on smallholders and the environment. Currently she is involved in research associated with monitoring and impact evaluation of various food safety capacity building efforts as well as conducting risk analysis associated with food safety hazards.
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