Christopher Golden, MD


Associate Professor of Planetary Health and Nutrition, Harvard TH Chan School, Department of Nutrition

Dr. Christopher Golden is an Associate Professor of Planetary Health and Nutrition at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. As an ecologist and epidemiologist, his research investigates the human health impacts of global environmental change, with a focus on food systems. He received his BA from Harvard College and two graduate degrees from UC Berkeley: an MPH in Epidemiology with a focus in Nutrition, and a PhD in Environmental Science, Policy and Management. Golden has been conducting research in Madagascar since 1999. He is the Director of the Program in Nutrition and Planetary Health at HSPH, the Co-Director for the Concentration in Climate Change and Planetary Health, and sits on the faculty board for the Center for Climate, Health and the Global Environment. His current research focuses on: 1) the role of climate-smart fisheries management to improve human nutrition; and 2) creating systems of climate-smart public health through climate and environmental monitoring and disease surveillance. https://www.linkedin.com/in/prof-golden/