Adam Drewnowski

PhD

Dr. Adam Drewnowski is the Director of the Center for Public Health Nutrition and Professor of Epidemiology at the School of Public Health, University of Washington. He is Adjunct Professor of Medicine; joint Member of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, and the Director of the UW Center for Obesity Research. Dr. Drewnowski received MA degree in biochemistry from Balliol College, Oxford and PhD in psychology from The Rockefeller University in New York. Following postdoctoral training at the University of Toronto, Dr. Drewnowski joined the faculty at The Rockefeller University. He then directed the Human Nutrition Program at the University of Michigan before moving to the University of Washington in 1998. Dr. Drewnowski's sensory research has addressed the role of sugars and fats in shaping food preferences. His later studies focused on the relation between nutritional quality of the diet and diet cost, with emphasis on affordable healthy foods and social and geographic disparities in obesity rates. Dr. Drewnowski has created several nutrient profiling models, including the Nutrient Rich Foods and the Affordable Nutrition Index, and is engaged in linking nutrient density of foods with their carbon cost. He has provided advice on nutrition and health issues to government agencies, foundations, and the private sector in the US and in France. Dr. Drewnowski is the 2012 winner of the Prix Benjamin Delessert; public trustee of ILSI Global, and board member of the ILSI Research Foundation. In 2012-13 he was visiting professor at the University of Paris VI.