Dr. Katrin Engelhardt

Dr. Katrin Engelhardt is a scientist with the World Health Organization’s Department of Nutrition and Food Safety in Geneva, Switzerland, where she leads the WHO’s work on food environment policies, including nutrition labelling, marketing, fiscal policies, and school food and nutrition policies. She also serves as the Department’s focal point for the Initiative on Climate Action and Nutrition (I-CAN).

Before joining WHO Headquarters, she worked at the WHO Regional Office for the Western Pacific (WHO/WPRO) from 2012 to 2017, where she coordinated the regional nutrition programme and advanced regional efforts to reduce the double burden of malnutrition, particularly through the implementation of public policies.

Prior to her position as Technical Lead for Nutrition, she held roles as Technical Officer for Health Promotion and NCDs at WHO/WPRO, providing technical support to countries in strengthening health promotion governance mechanisms, infrastructure, and financing, as well as addressing issues related to urbanization, health, and healthy settings.

Dr. Engelhardt has also served as a lecturer and researcher on global health and governance at various universities, including institutions in Germany, Austria, the Republic of Korea, and Australia.

Between 2002 and 2006, she worked for local governments in Vienna, Austria, and Seoul, Republic of Korea, where she served as an advisor to the Seoul Metropolitan Government on healthy cities and policy responses for the prevention and control of noncommunicable diseases.