sydney pryor (she/her) is a fourth-year phd candidate in health policy aiming to de-silo agrifood policy and health policy research to achieve healthy, sustainable, and socially just diets in the u.s. with a background in human nutrition, foods and exercise and chronic disease epidemiology, and long-standing interest in systems thinking, her research focuses on the u.s. agrifood system and related policies as drivers of the nexus between human and planetary health, with a particular focus on reducing beef consumption/industrial production as an outsized contributor to the environmental footprint of american diets. as a fellow and research assistant at the redstone global center for prevention and wellness at gw, sydney also works on a number of policy initiatives at the local and federal level around food/nutrition insecurity, diet-related chronic disease, and climate change.
george washington university student sydney pryor reflects on her experience at the 2023 world food forum and envisions a future beyond the false dichotomy of plant based and livestock food production. keep reading
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