Chelsey Canavan, MSPH

Senior Lecturer

Chelsey Canavan, MSPH, is a Senior Lecturer of Health Policy and Clinical Practice at the Geisel School of Medicine where she teaches in the residential MPH program. Chelsey is a Manager in Population Health at Dartmouth Health where she is responsible for operations and programming for the Center for Advancing Rural Health Equity and also and oversees Food is Medicine programs for the health system. For over two decades, Chelsey has built partnerships to promote public health with a focus on food and nutrition security and maternal and child health. Chelsey’s work has included program design, implementation, and evaluation; implementation science; and capacity building for public health programs at home in New England and in over a dozen countries in sub-Saharan Africa, Southeast Asia, and Central America. Previously, she managed a global food systems and nutrition research program at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She was an Allan Rosenfield Global Health Fellow at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and has a MSPH from UNC Chapel Hill Gillings School of Global Public Health.