Abrania Marrero

Abrania Marrero is a Clinical Assistant Professor at New York University School of Global Public Health. Her research investigates human and global environmental changes in small island food systems, including the impacts of political economic shifts and climatic shocks on nutrition and cardiometabolic disease. Abrania is a former consultant for the Environmental Defense Fund and the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment and, in her training, has served as an Agent of Change in Environmental Justice in the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University as well as a bench scientist with the USDA Agricultural Research Service. She obtained a PhD in Population Health Sciences and an SM in Biostatistics from Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health and a BS in Psychology and BSPH in Public Health, Minor in Chemistry from Tulane University.