Samuel Myers of Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health has been named the inaugural recipient of the Arrell Global Food Innovation research award. The $100,000 prize, which will be awarded by the Arrell Food Institute at the University of Guelph in May, was created to recognize innovation and excellence in global food security.
Myers, principal research scientist at Harvard Chan School and director of Harvard’s Planetary Health Alliance, has shown that climate change could make food less nutritious. Rising CO2 levels could significantly reduce the amount of iron, zinc, and protein in staple crops such as rice and wheat that billions of people around the world rely on, according to his research.
Read an article in The Globe and Mail: One scientist’s work sheds light on ‘transforming’state of planetary health