Miss Sarah Nájera Espinosa

Research Fellow

United Kingdom

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Sarah Nájera Espinosa (Sarah) is a Research Fellow and a PhD candidate at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine researching the role of plant-based foods to transitioning towards more nutritious, affordable, and sustainable diets in the UK. By academic training and educational background, Sarah has a Bachelor’s in environmental studies and Master’s in food security. Before coming to LSHTM, Sarah worked at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) for ~5 years. During this period, she worked across different divisions in various food-related topics including food composition, pesticides maximum residue limits, the role of pesticides and microplastics in the human gut microbiome, and the effects of climate change on nutrition and biodiversity.

Affiliations

Department of Population Health

Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health

Teaching

Since March 2023, Sarah has held the position of a part-time distance learning tutor for the MSc Global Health Policy at LSHTM, and she also serves as an MSc project supervisor for the MSc Nutrition for Global Health. Prior to joining LSHTM, Sarah worked for a short period as a lecturer at the Universidad Internacional del Ecuador (UIDE) in Quito, Ecuador, where she taught three undergraduate courses: Andean crop systems, Organic and hydroponic crop systems, and Technologies in plant propagation. In her role at UIDE, Sarah not only delivered these courses but also played a pivotal role in developing the course syllabus and overseeing all teaching and evaluation activities.