Dylan Walters

Dylan Walters

Project Director, Health Economics at Nutrition International

Dylan Walters is the Project Director, Health Economics, Global Technical Services at Nutrition International based in Canada. His work focuses on leading health economics analysis (cost- effectiveness, benefit-cost analysis), the development of modelling tools, nutrition investment cases, knowledge translation of economic evidence and financing technical assistance with partners related to maternal and child health and nutrition. Dylan completed his Ph.D. with the Canadian Centre for Health Economics at the University of Toronto. His dissertation focused on the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of vitamin A fortification of sunflower oil in Tanzania. He previously worked with the World Bank in Washington, D.C, where he co- authored the Global Investment Framework for Nutrition and the Investment Case for Nutrition in Afghanistan. He also led the development of the Cost of Not Breastfeeding Tool with Alive & Thrive and continued this work at Nutrition International. Prior to this, he worked at the SickKids Centre for Global Child Health, Canadian Coalition for Global Health Research, and Centre for Policy Analysis in Trade and Health. With his research team at NI, he is focused on the strategic use of applied economic research and evaluation to inform and influence policy decisions and investments into maternal and child nutrition at the district, national and global level.