Nathalie Lambrecht is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Climate Change and Health working group as part of Research Department 2 at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK). She is also a Research Associate at the Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin Institute of Public Health.
Nathalie completed her PhD in Nutritional Sciences at the University of Michigan School of Public Health. Her dissertation investigated linkages between household livestock ownership and anemia among young Ghanaian children, assessing both the nutritional benefits of animal-source food consumption and the infectious disease risks of exposure to enteric pathogens from animal feces.
Her research interests include linkages between child undernutrition, diets, and infection, the role of small-holder livestock agriculture in sustainable food systems, and the intersection of diet and planetary health. She aims to conduct research that promotes human nutrition and health within ecologically sustainable food systems.
Contact
14412 Potsdam
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Education
2016 – 2021 PhD Nutritional Sciences, University of Michigan School of Public Health
2010 – 2014 BS Health Science, Saint Mary’s College of California
Positions
2021 – present Postdoctoral Researcher (Guest Scientist), Research Department 2, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
2021 – present Research Associate, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Institute of Public Health
2019 – 2020 Research Assistant, President’s Commission on Carbon Neutrality Food Analysis Team, University of Michigan
2015 – 2016 Research Technician Associate, University of Michigan Health System Division of Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine
Lambrecht NJ, Hoey L, Bryan A, Heller M, Jones AD. (2023) Limiting red meat availability in a university food service setting reduces food-related greenhouse gas emissions by one-third. Climatic Change. doi: 10.1007/s10584-023-03543-y
Cheek J, Lambrecht NJ, den Braber B, Akanchha N, Govindarajulu D, Jones A, Chhatre A, Rasmussen LV. (2023) Wild foods contribute to higher women’s dietary diversity in India. Nature Food. doi: 10.1038/s43016-023-00766-1
Lambrecht NJ, Waid JL, Wendt AS, Sobhan S, Kader A, Gabrysch S. Impact of a Homestead Food Production program on poultry rearing and egg consumption: a cluster-randomized controlled trial in Bangladesh. (2023) Maternal & Child Nutrition. doi: 10.1111/mcn.13505
Pörtner LM, Lambrecht N, Springmann M, Bodirsky BL, Gaupp F, Freund F, Lotze-Campen H, Gabrysch S. (2022) We need a food system transformation—In the face of the Russia-Ukraine war, now more than ever. One Earth. doi: 10.1016/j.oneear.2022.04.004
Lambrecht NJ, Wilson ML, Bridges D, Eisenberg JNS, Adu B, Baylin A, Folson G, Jones AD. (2021) Ruminant-related risk factors are associated with Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli infection in children in southern Ghana. The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, doi: 10.4269/ajtmh.21-0550
Lambrecht NJ, Wilson ML, Baylin A, Folson G, Naabah S, Eisenberg JNS, Adu B, Jones AD. (2021) Associations between livestock ownership and lower odds of anaemia among children 6–59 months old are not mediated by animal‐source food consumption in Ghana. Maternal & Child Nutrition; e13163. doi: 10.1111/mcn.13163
Lambrecht NJ, Wilson ML, Jones AD. (2019) Assessing the impact of animal husbandry and capture on anemia among women and children in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review. Advances in Nutrition; 10:331-344. doi: 10.1093/advances/nmy080
- 2019 Dow Sustainability Doctoral Fellow, University of Michigan
- 2018 Walter Block Department Scholarship, University of Michigan
- 2016-2021 Rackham Merit Fellow, University of Michigan
- 2014 Julie A. Pryde Award for Outstanding Scholarship as a Health Sciences Major Recipient, Saint Mary’s College of California
