Anne Mullen

Dr. Anne Mullen is currently a lecturer in climate change, agriculture, and food security at the Ryan Institute and the Sustainable World Section of the School of Biological and Chemical Sciences. Her research interests focus on sustainable food systems that support nutrition security for all, the empowerment of citizens in food systems transformation, and science communication for both citizens and political decision-makers.

Dr. Mullen is a nutrition scientist with a PhD in molecular nutrition from Trinity College Dublin. She has postdoctoral experience at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, where she worked on a complementary feeding project for HIV-exposed infants in Zambia.

Dr. Mullen was previously a lecturer in nutritional sciences at King’s College London, where she researched HIV lipodystrophy syndrome in London and led an intervention for acute malnutrition among HIV-positive children and adults in Uganda.

As Director of Nutrition at the Dairy Council for Great Britain, Dr. Mullen provided evidence-based information on milk, dairy, nutrition, and health to citizens, health professionals, researchers, the food industry, and policymakers.

She was also the launch Chief Editor of the Nature Research Portfolio journal, Nature Food. In this role, she organised and/or moderated sessions and side-events at the UN Food Systems Summit Science Days, the FAO Science and Innovation Forum, the Nutrition for Growth Summit, and the International Congress of Nutrition in 2021 and 2022.