Apple Espino

Apple Espino is a Filipino Nutritionist-Dietitian and a public health practitioner. Her research interests including understanding context-specific food environment and diet inequalities and working on plate-to-farm approaches were shaped by her previous roles. Apple worked in multilevel governance of public health nutrition practice and research in the Philippines including serving in the Technical Working Group for the development and evaluation of the Filipino Healthy Eating Index. As a Nutrition consultant in the Regional Office for the Western Pacific of the World Health Organization, she managed databases related to the Region’s nutrition situation and policy actions on food marketing, food labelling, and taxation. Concurrent to this, Apple served as the Food Systems Researcher in the Regional Office for Asia of the International Institute of Rural Reconstruction, where she explored how the promotion of climate-smart agriculture contribute to developing sustainable food systems in Myanmar, Cambodia, and the Philippines.

Currently, Apple is a PhD candidate exploring the UK wheat agri-food systems using interdisciplinary research methods including data science. Her PhD project is titled, “A Systems Approach to Increasing the potential of Wheat in Delivering the UK’s Healthy Diets, and Food and Nutrition Security”.