How can we align farm animal welfare, human nutrition, and environmental health? Join Harvard Alumni in Animal Ethics, Health, and Welfare for a timely webinar featuring Dr. Walter Willett, renowned nutrition epidemiologist at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and Attorney Lewis Bollard, Managing Director of Farm Animal Welfare at Coefficient Giving. Together, they’ll explore the connections between what we eat, how farm animals are treated, and the health of our planet.
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Speaker Biographies:
Dr. Walter Willett
Epidemiologist Harvard Chan School of Public Health| Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School
Walter C. Willett, M.D., Dr. P.H., is Professor of Epidemiology and Nutrition at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Dr. Willett studied food science at Michigan State University and graduated from the University of Michigan Medical School before obtaining a Masters and Doctorate in Public Health from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Dr. Willett has focused much of his work over the last 45 years on the development and evaluation of methods, using both questionnaire and biochemical approaches, to study the effects of diet on the occurrence of major diseases. He has applied these methods starting in 1980 in the Nurses’ Health Studies I and II and the Health Professionals Follow-up Study. Together, these cohorts that include nearly 300,000 men and women with repeated dietary assessments, are providing the most detailed information on the long-term health consequences of food choices.
Dr. Willett has published over 2,300 original research papers and reviews, primarily on lifestyle risk factors for heart disease, cancer, and other conditions and has written the textbook, Nutritional Epidemiology, published by Oxford University Press, now in its third edition. He also has written four books for the public. Dr. Willett is the most cited nutritionist internationally. He is a member of the National Academy of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences and the recipient of many national and international awards for his research.
His TED talk can be found here.
Attorney Lewis Bollard
Managing Director of Farm Animal Welfare, Coefficient Giving
Lewis Bollard leads the Farm Animal Welfare Fund at Coefficient Giving. He joined CG in 2015 as the first full-time staff member working on farm animal welfare.
The author of the Farm Animal Welfare Substack, he has made recent appearances on the TED main stage and the Dwarkesh Podcast. He previously worked at Bain & Company and Humane World for Animals, and is a graduate of Harvard University and Yale Law School.
His TED talk can be found here.