Jane Battersby, Co-lead
Jane Battersby is an Associate Professor in the Department of Environmental and Geographical Science at the University of Cape Town and co-lead of the CoRE Food Environments for Health. Her research focuses on the interaction of food environments with urban environments in the African context. She is particularly interested in urban food governance and increasing the agency of urban residents.
Meena Daivadanam, Co-lead
Meena Daivadanam has a background in medicine and a PhD in public health interventions. She works in Global Health with intervention and implementation research, particularly community-based complex interventions for primary and secondary prevention of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) mainly in Sub-Saharan Africa, Europe and Asia. She is increasingly focusing on upstream determinants such as local health systems and food environments using more inclusive participatory and design methods to bridge the equity gap.
Laran Matta, Project Coordinator
Laran Matta is a project coordinator at the Global Health and Migration Unit, Department of Women’s and Children’s Health at Uppsala University. Laran has a background as a registered nurse with a master’s degree in Global Health. Her experience includes working as a nurse in clinical settings, medical program coordinator supporting refugees and vulnerable populations and project coordination of research projects at an academic level.