Professor Anna Lartey
Professor of Nutrition, University of Ghana
Professor Anna Lartey is an adjunct Professor of Nutrition, University of Ghana. Former Director of Nutrition at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, Italy from October 2013 to December 2020, where she led FAO’s work on Food Systems for Nutrition. Prior to that she was a Professor of Nutrition at the University of Ghana for almost 30 years. Her research focussed on maternal and child nutrition. Anna Lartey won the University of Ghana’s “Best Researcher Award for 2004”. She held the International Development Research Center (IDRC, Canada) Research Chair in Nutrition for Health and Socioeconomic Development in Sub-Saharan Africa (2009-2014).
Professor Lartey was a Fulbright doctoral student (1994-1998) at the University of California, Davis, USA. She obtained her Master’s degree in Nutritional sciences at the University of Guelph, Canada and BSC in Nutrition-Biochemistry from Ottawa University in Canada. Prof Lartey has received several global awards: the Sight and Life Nutrition Leadership Award for 2014; African Nutrition Society Award for Distinguished Services to Nutrition in 2014; served as the President of the International Union of Nutritional Sciences (IUNS, 2013-2017); awarded a Doctor of Science degree, honoris causa, by McGill University in June 2018; and in December 2022, Prof Anna Lartey received the International Union of Nutritional Sciences Lifetime Achievement Award for outstanding contribution to nutrition of regional and global significance working in a developing country.