Priya Fielding-Singh

Priya Fielding-Singh, PhD, serves as the Director of Policy and Programs at the Global Food Institute, where she leads domestic policy, programming, and engagement initiatives. A trained social scientist, she brings extensive expertise in food and nutrition equity, maternal and child health, and public policy.

Before joining GFI, Dr. Fielding-Singh held roles at the Sandberg Goldberg Bernthal Family Foundation, working on research and education programs, and served as an Assistant Professor at the University of Utah, where she led a mixed-methods, externally funded research program on health equity. Her work has been supported by funders such as the NIH, National Cancer Institute, Russell Sage Foundation, and Utah Department of Labor, and has been published in top social science, medical and public health journals.

Her first book, How the Other Half Eats: The Untold Story of Food and Inequality (Little, Brown and Company, 2021), draws on in-depth fieldwork she conducted with families in the San Francisco Bay Area to explore the complex factors shaping dietary disparities in America. Her insights have been featured in leading outlets such as The Washington Post, The New York Times, NPR, and Harvard Business Review.

Dr. Fielding-Singh earned her PhD in Sociology from Stanford University and completed a postdoctoral fellowship as an National Institute of Health Scholar in Cardiovascular Disease Prevention at the Stanford University School of Medicine. She currently serves on the Board of Directors for Hunger Free America.