William A. Masters

@wamasters

Prof. @tuftsnutrition, on economics of agriculture, food & nutrition. Photo is deepsprings.edu. Teaching blog: sites.tufts.edu/foodecon. Just like this IRL too.

Somerville, MA sites.tufts.edu/willmasters Joined June 2009

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William A. Masters @wamasters Feb 16, 2025

Career reset?

Our MS programs allow students from any academic background to earn a STEM-designated degree @TuftsUniversity for impactful work in #agriculture, #nutrition & #health.

Intro classes like my #FoodEconomics lead to high-value specializations
nutrition.tufts.edu/academics/degr…

nutrition.tufts.edu Degree Specializations

William A. Masters @wamasters Sep 7

Great work by @rosiget and colleagues, showing how the interruption of salt iodization in the late 1990s harmed child survival and secondary-school test scores many years later, in @NatureFoodJnl
nature.com/articles/s4301…

William A. Masters @wamasters May 13

This podcast interview gives an unedited, 40-min summary of the big picture as I see it:
open.spotify.com/episode/5ayYt1…
Thanks to David Introcaso @HealthcareIssue for deep-dive Q&A

William A. Masters @wamasters Feb 21

This talk on Food Prices for Nutrition is my best effort at a quick and entertaining summary of how & why @FAOstatistics, @worldbankdata, @NBS_Nigeria and others measure the Cost and Affordability of Healthy Diets, and what results imply for food choices
youtube.com/watch?v=InEuX8…

William A. Masters @wamasters Oct 15, 2025

Thanks to Pablo Rosado of @OurWorldInData for a clear, vivid explanation of what #FoodPricesForNutrition metrics reveal about healthy diet costs and affordability. The best visualizations of results through 2024:
ourworldindata.org/diet-affordabi…

ourworldindata.org Almost three billion people cannot afford a healthy diet A healthy, nutritious diet is much more expensive than a calorie sufficient one.