Ingvild Almås
Research Director
starting June 2025
About the Center
Dedicated to Child and Youth Development
The Center’s vision is to build a holistic understanding of decision-making, market forces, and the cost-benefits of breastfeeding, to ultimately guide policy formation and interventions which improve the well-being of children, families, and society.
The LRF CEB aims to achieve its vision by:
- establishing a world-leading research center focused on the social and market dynamics of breastfeeding and infant nutrition, keeping questions that are especially relevant to low- and middle-income countries front and center,
- developing core infrastructure and expertise to sustain long-term projects (or inquiries/studies) with major translational impact, and
- rapidly translating scientific discoveries into practice through collaboration with expert partners and by disseminating key findings to key stakeholders in child nutrition and child health (i.e., the scientific community, clinical practitioners, policymakers, and consumers).
Researchers
The center is home to a number of affiliated researchers. They all focus on research projects within the scope of the center’s mission: to conduct high-quality research that will ultimately improve the lives of children and young adults.
Hannah Massenbauer
Pre-doctoral Research Fellow
Affiliated Researchers
Prof. David Yanagizawa-Drott
Professor of Development and Emerging Markets, University of Zurich
Jordyn Wallenborn
Project Leader for SNF Ambizione, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute
Advisory Board
Sule Alan
Professor of Economics at the European University Institute, Florence and Adjunct Professor of Economics at Bilkent University, Turkey
Marcos Vera-Hernández
Professor of Economics, University College, London
Research Fellow, The Institute for Fiscal Studies, London
Contact
For general requests as well as for
press inquiries
| Prof. Anne Brenøe | |
|---|---|
| Phone | +41 44 634 61 53 |
| anne.brenoe | |
| Office | SOF-F-17 |
| Address | University of Zurich Schönberggasse 1 |