Professor Donald Bundy

Donald Bundy is Professor of Epidemiology and Development at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. He is the Director of the Research Consortium for School Health and Nutrition and Senior Advisor to the UN World Food Programme, leading a global research effort to provide evidence-based guidance to the 90+ member states of the School Meals Coalition on strengthening national school meals and complementary health programmes. Previously, Professor Bundy served as Senior Advisor to the Global Health Team of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (Seattle); Lead Education and Health Specialist to the World Bank Group’s Africa Region and Human Development policy unit (Washington D.C.); and Professor and Deputy Director of the Epidemiology Centre, University of Oxford (Oxford, UK).

He is a Fellow (non-resident) of the Center for Global Development and (adjunct) of Linacre College, University of Oxford, and a Founding Member of the Partnership for Child Development. He co- created the FRESH Framework at the World Education Forum in Dakar, Senegal in 2000. Professor Bundy has authored more than more than 400 books and scientific publications, including Rethinking School Feeding in 2009, and produced award-winning documentary films on public health in development, including a series for the American Public Broadcasting Service (PBS). He has contributed to all four editions of the World Bank Group’s Disease Control Priorities since 1993, and was senior advisor to the UN World Food Programme’s "State of School Feeding Worldwide” reports in 2020 and 2022.

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