Dr. Kurt Z. Long currently works as a Research Scientist at the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute. He worked as a Research Associate at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (2001-2007), and then he was a Senior Lecturer at the University of Queensland (2007-2013).  His research interests mainly include vitamin A, diarrhea, malnutrition, infectious disease epidemiology, child nutrition,  childhood/pediatric obesity, and zinc.