Chloë A. Puett, MA
Ph.D. Candidate, Food Policy and Applied
Nutrition, Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy
Tufts University, Boston, MA
2006–2008
Mentors: Dr. Webb & Dr. Sadler
Recent Work
Chloe Puett is a doctoral candidate at the Tufts University Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy where she is a Gerald J. Friedman Fellow in Nutrition and Citizenship. She has eight years' experience in the field of international nutrition, including extensive fieldwork experience in India, Madagascar and Bangladesh. With a background in nonprofit management, she brings expertise in program planning, monitoring and evaluation and has advised a range of international organizations and UN agencies on their nutrition and food security interventions. Recently she has worked with both Save the Children and USAID in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa, providing feedback and inputs on their emergency nutrition interventions, specifically the community management of acute malnutrition (CMAM).
She is currently working with Dr. Kate Sadler on an initiative with Save the Children (US) in Bangladesh to design, and then study, the operational effectiveness of using community health volunteers to manage severe acute malnutrition (SAM) at the community level using ready-to-use therapeutic foods (RUTF). Among other things, she is charged with examining the cost-effectiveness of CMAM programming and will use the results as the foundation of her doctoral dissertation. Her research will be used to advocate to the governments of countries, where severe acute malnutrition is a chronic problem, for the scale-up of CMAM programs using existing primary health care infrastructure. In addition to this research, she has recently been engaged by the United Nations Standing Committee on Nutrition (SCN) M&E Taskforce (funded by the UN/Nutrition Cluster) with Dr. Helen Young and Suzanne Jaspers to study the nutrition indicators and cut-offs used as part of the Integrated Phase Classification (IPC) System.
