Resume

• 1989

  Ph.D

  Theoretical Ecology and International Nutrition

  University of California

  Davis

• 1987

  M.A

  Anthropology

  University of Michigan

• 1984

  B.A. (Honours)

  M.A

  Zoology and Biological Anthropology

• Public Health

  Research

  Biostatistics

  Research Design

  Literature Reviews

  University Teaching

  Nutrition

  Data Analysis

  Ecology

  Statistics

  International Health

  Global Health

  Program Evaluation

  Qualitative Research

  International Development

  Epidemiology

  Anthropology

  Teaching

  Capacity Building

  Lecturing

  Sellen

  Experience:\n\n > 30 years academic research

  teaching

  service

  administration\n\n > 25 years design

  implementation and/or analysis of research in applied anthropology

  community nutrition and global health\n\n > 20 years training and supervision of human resources (post-doctoral

  doctoral

  master’s and undergraduate level)\n\n Diverse international experience incl. Tanzania

  Kenya

  Ghana

  Lesotho

  Guatemala

  Mexico

  Bangladesh

  India

  UK

  USA

  Canada.\n\nGoals:\n\n Community based development and testing of sustainable strategies to protect

  promote and support young child feeding (IYCF

  PMTCT of HIV/AIDS). \n\n Improving maternal and child diet diversity and nutrition security through integrated program design

  delivery

  monitoring and evaluation.\n\n Trials of mHealth innovations to support nutrition and reproductive health services.\n\n Partnering for healthy and sustainable livelihoods

  with focus on gender sensitive smallholder agricultural value chain addition. \n\n Nutrition assessment in hard-to-sample vulnerable populations

  e.g. nomadic

  newcomer

  street-affected and resettled refugee populations.\n\n Application of human ecology and evolutionary/medical anthropology to global public health and nutrition.\n\n Understanding the evolution and human ecology of young child feeding and care-giving practices.\n\nSpecialties: human biology (nutrition

  ecology

  demography and evolution); applied nutritional anthropology; community based nutrition; monitoring and evaluation; biostatistics; epidemiology; evolutionary anthropology; human biology; research design

  ethics and supervision; graduate and post doctoral training and mentoring ; university teaching at all levels; academic leadership (including strategic planning

  donor relations

  human resource management

  collaboration and career mentoring

  multi-million dollar portfolio co-management); study reporting.

  Daniel

  Sellen

  London School of Hygiene

  University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine

  University College London

  The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

  University of Toronto

  Dalla Lana School of Public Health

  University of Toronto

  Emory University

  Research

  teaching and academic service as an assistant professor of anthropology cross appointed in international health

  Emory University

  Honorary Lecturer

  Associate Dean

  Research

  Enhancing School-wide research development and support services

  Dalla Lana School of Public Health

  University of Toronto

  Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Global Health

  Associate Professor

  Research

  teaching and academic service in department of anthropology cross-appointed in international health

  Emory University

  Director

  The Joannah and Brian Lawson Centre for Child Nutrition

  Visiting Research Fellow

  London School of Hygiene

  Leverhulme Research Fellow

  University College London

  University of Toronto

  Toronto

  Ontario

  Canada

  Academic leadership; teaching

  research supervision and mentoring; research leadership

  innovation and collaboration; project management; grant acquisition; senior level university administration; strategic planning and institutional relations.\n\nServed as coordinator of graduate program

  teaching assistant coordinator and acting departmental chair (>50 faculty across 3 campuses; >140 PhD

  MA and MSc students) and multiple scholarly committees boards and councils.\n\nCurrent appointments:\n\nDirector

  The Joannah and Brian Lawson Centre for Child Nutrition

  University of Toronto\n\nDistinguished Professor of Anthropology and Global Health

  Department of Anthropology

  Faculty of Arts and Sciences\n\nProfessor

  Division of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  Dalla Lana School of Public Health \n\nProfessor

  Department of Nutritional Sciences

  Faculty of Medicine\n\nSenior Resident Scholar

  Centre for Global Child Health

  The Hospital for Sick Children

  Professor of Anthropology

  Nutritional Sciences and Social and Behavioral Health Sciences

  International leadership in collaborative research and training

  University of Toronto

  Associate Professor

  Primary appointment in Department of Anthropology with cross-appointments in Nutritional Sciences and Public Health

  University of Toronto

  ISRHML