Kristina Sokourenko
| Degree | Ph.D., Development Studies |
| Email Address | kvs53@cornell.edu |
Kristina Sokourenko is a Ph.D. student in Development Studies at Cornell University.
She is passionate about monitoring access to healthy and sustainable diets in low - and middle-income contexts while developing novel food security metrics to inform interventions in agriculture, public health, and nutrition.
She is dedicated to establishing collaborative research networks that can alter the way we think about, monitor, and empower our food systems to serve all.
Kristina specializes in food systems approaches with a focus on culturally-sensitive dietary assessment methods and the cost and affordability of healthy diets.
Her doctoral research focuses on informal waterfront communities in Lagos, Nigeria, where she examines how small-scale fisheries and food environments shape access to affordable and nutritious diets.
This work aims to highlight resilience while also documenting the structural role of informal seafood networks in urban food security.
Before coming to Cornell, Kristina co-led diet quality and food security monitoring efforts with the Global Diet Quality Project (Harvard School of Public Health, GAIN & Gallup World Poll), the Food Prices for Nutrition team (Tufts University, World Bank & IFPRI), and the Food Systems Dashboard.
She has also worked for the World Food Programme in Armenia, the World Health Organization in Paris, and the UN Medical Services Division in New York.
She holds a Master’s degree in Global Health & Public Affairs from SciencesPo, as well as a Master’s in Bioethics from NYU, where she also completed her undergraduate studies in Anthropology and Environmental Science.
