Dr. Lily Bliznashka

College of Health Sciences, University of Sharjah

Dr Lily Bliznashka is a Research Fellow in the Nutrition, Diets, and Health Unit at the International Food Policy Research Institute, based in Washington, DC, USA. She is an interdisciplinary researcher with expertise in global health and nutrition, impact evaluation, and quantitative methods. The core of her research is assessing the effectiveness of complex interventions and the mechanisms through which they work to improve maternal and child health and nutrition globally. Dr Bliznashka’s work spans a range of interventions, including school meals, nutrition-sensitive social protection, and agri-food systems-based interventions. She has led impact evaluations on school meals programs in fragile settings and contributed to several reviews on the effectiveness of school meals in diverse settings. She is actively working on projects in Egypt, Guatemala, Haiti, Malawi, Tanzania, and Yemen. Dr Bliznashka received her PhD in Population Health Science from Harvard University. Her publications are available on Google Scholar.