David Wallinga, MD, MPA

Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP)
Food and Health Program
2105 First Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN
USA 55404

Biographical Sketch: David Wallinga, MD, MPA, is Director of the Food and Health Program, Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy. He applies systems thinking to the industrialized food system, identifying strategies for consumers to find healthier food produced sustainably, as well as public policies that can help build food systems that are healthier, less polluting and contribute less to climate change, while supporting farmers and rural communities. Dr. Wallinga’s recent research and writing has been on mercury in HFCS, petroleum-based food dyes, synthetic hormones given to cattle, and antibiotics used nontherapeutically in agriculture, as animal growth promoters and to produce corn ethanol. Dr. Wallinga currently is a William T. Grant Foundation Fellow with the University of Minnesota’s Division of Nutritional Epidemiology, School of Public Health. He received a medical degree from the University of Minnesota Medical School, a Masters degree from Princeton University, and a Bachelors from Dartmouth College.

Papers:
4029.0 Drug resistant UTIs in women: Scourge that tastes just like chicken?