Professor
Tufts University Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy
Parke Wilde (PhD, Cornell) is a food economist and professor at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University. Previously, he worked for USDA’s Economic Research Service. He studies food security and hunger measurement, the economics of food assistance programs, and federal dietary guidance policy. He directs the USDA-funded RIDGE extramural research grants program. Parke keeps a blog at usfoodpolicy.com. He is author of Food Policy in the United States: An Introduction, second edition (Routledge/Earthscan, 2018).