A Principal Nutrition and Dietetic expert with more than 30 years’ experience of working in the development and humanitarian sectors.   Kate Godden started her humanitarian career in working in an acute famine in an Angolan war zone in 1983.  Since then, she has worked in complex humanitarian emergencies in Sierra Leone, Afghanistan, South Sudan & Nigeria; in natural disasters in Orissa India, Ethiopia, Sudan & Tajikistan amongst others.  Working with a variety of stakeholders – government, UN, donors & NGOs – Kate has worked across the nutrition sector starting with field level programming and moving through planning, policy, governance and evaluations.

She worked for 10 years in academia lecturing on International Public Health Nutrition at MSc level and established a new short course Nutrition in Emergencies at the University of Westminster.  She also ran a module at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine on Nutrition & Infection.

She worked within the Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) movement for several years promoting and using a multi-sector approach to policy and programming to enable holistic guidance and recommendations.  She is a registered Dietitian with the HCPC.

Kate also works in the UK with Bags of Taste – a social enterprise tackling food poverty at grass roots and has supported the Society of Apothecaries’ faculty of Conflict and Catastrophe Medicine for over 20 years.  She currently works part time in the NHS providing service development, workforce analysis and management within Nutrition & Dietetics.