Felicia Wu

Felicia Wu is the John A. Hannah Distinguished Professor of Food Science and Human Nutrition and Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics at Michigan State University. Her research concerns the global health and economic risks of foodborne toxins, and the cost-effectiveness and feasibility of interventions to improve food safety in resource-poor settings. For her research on the impact of aflatoxin regulations on global liver cancer, Dr. Wu was awarded a National Institutes of Health EUREKA Award. She has been commissioned by the World Health Organization (WHO) to estimate the global burden of disease caused by foodborne aflatoxin and foodborne arsenic. Dr. Wu serves on the expert roster of the Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives (JECFA) of the United Nations, and is one of three recipients of the 2011 Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment (SCOPE)-Zhongyu award for global environmental research. She is an area editor for three journals: Risk Analysis, World Mycotoxin Journal, and Archives of Environmental and Occupational Health.  Dr. Wu earned her PhD in Engineering & Public Policy from Carnegie Mellon University, and her AB and SM in Applied Mathematics from Harvard University.