Selena Ahmed

Selena Ahmed is the Global Director of the Periodic Table of Food Initiative (PTFI) and Dean of Food EDU, based at the American Heart Association. For the past 20 years, she has carried out sustainable food systems research focused on agrobiodiversity, food quality, food environments, and sustainable diet interventions for mitigating diet-related chronic disease. Her ultimate translational goal is to inform food system solutions to improve human and planetary health. Selena brings interdisciplinary training in chemical ecology and human clinical nutrition (postdoctoral fellowship), PhD in biology, Masters of Science in ethnobotany / cultural anthropology, and BA in economics.