Brandon Hugueley

Brandon, a California native, received his Bachelor's in Psychology from UC Santa Barbara and completed his Masters in Public Health with a concentration in Epidemiology and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) at San Diego State University.  For his Capstone project, Brandon used Demographic and Health Survey data to investigate the association between food insecurity and intimate partner violence among married women in Nepal.  Additionally, during his graduate studies, Brandon conducted epidemiological research investigating the prevalence of intestinal parasitosis and anemia among schoolchildren living in rural Baja California, interned with San Diego County's Epidemiology & Immunization division where he investigated Shigellosis infections among MSM, and worked with programmers to develop a text-based service targeting food insecure populations in San Diego County as part of the SD Big Data Hackathon, at which his group was awarded 1st place.  One of the biggest motivations for Brandon to work within international food security comes from having served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Nepal as part of USAID's Feed the Future Initiative.  Brandon hopes to leverage his education and experience to help bridge the gap between science and policy.  He is also an avid language learner and speaks Nepali, Hindi, and Spanish.