Joachim Sackey is an assistant professor in the Department of Clinical and Preventive Nutrition Sciences at Rutgers’ School of Health Professions. He is a nutritional epidemiologist with interests in food insecurity, HIV-related comorbidities associated with poor diet, and nutrition issues among racial and sexual minorities. He currently conducts research in Newark, New Jersey, and Botswana.

He teaches “Global and Public Health Nutrition,” which is a core course for students in the entry-level M.S. in clinical nutrition program at the School of Health Professions and for students in the M.P.H. nutrition concentration at the School of Public Health.

Sackey received M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in nutritional epidemiology from the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University and an M.Phil. degree in dietetics from the University of Ghana.

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