About Brain Food

Brain Food is my independent publication about, yes, actual food, and food for thought - about food (systems, policy, regulation, nutrition) and anything else I find curious, intriguing, and worth pondering.

This site also is home to some of the 'backlist': From the Daily Maverick (Food Justice, global and public health, nutrition, wine), the Global Fund Observer (HIV, TB and malaria grants and finance), the World Health Organization (reports, features), and selected earlier articles from The Sunday Independent (HIV in South Africa around 2000 and the early aughties). It also shows a few of the earlier projects I worked on and still feel glowy about to this day - mainly from my partnerships and communications work at the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria, starting in 2004.

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