Selena Ahmed is the Global Director of the Periodic Table of Food Initiative (PTFI) and the Dean of Food EDU based at the American Heart Association. She has carried out food systems research and outreach for the past 20 years with the goals of informing solutions to enhance human and planetary health. Her science for impact efforts have focused on: agrobiodiversity and traditional knowledge for conservation and nutrition; climate effects on food quality for climate resilience; co-creating food environment frameworks and measurements for food security; sustainable diet interventions for mitigating diet-related chronic disease and; community-engaged research with Indigenous communities to celebrate diverse ways of knowing. Selena joined the PTFI from Montana State University where she was an Associate Professor of Sustainable Food Systems and Director of the Translational Biomarkers Core lab facility. She brings transdisciplinary training including a postdoctoral fellowship in chemical ecology and human clinical nutrition, PhD in biology / plant sciences, MSc in ethnobotany / cultural anthropology, and BA in economics. Selena lives with her family in Bozeman, Montana.
Selena Ahmed
