Abbe McCarter is a public health nutrition professional with expertise in nutrition financing, food systems analysis, and multisectoral nutrition programming. She currently serves as a Project Manager for the Finance Capacity Development Platform (FCDP) hosted by Results for Development (R4D), where she helps lead efforts to reshape the nutrition financing landscape. Through FCDP, Abbe works closely with government stakeholders and partners across the Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) movement to elevate nutrition financing as a priority to accelerate impact across sectors.
In her broader role within R4D’s nutrition practice, Abbe also supports projects across multiple sub-practices, with a particular focus on nutrition financing and policy. She has contributed to key initiatives such as tracking donor aid toward the World Health Assembly (WHA) nutrition targets and developing regional guidance and tools for sustainable nutrition investment.
Prior to joining R4D, Abbe worked with the World Health Organization (WHO) European Office for the Prevention and Control of Noncommunicable Diseases, where she led research on sugar reduction policies. She also served as the Indigenous Peoples’ liaison intern for the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations during the 2021 UN Food Systems Summit, and as a research analyst for the Human Relations Area Files (HRAF) database, examining the impact of climate hazards on culture and diet.
Abbe holds a Master of Public Health in Nutrition from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, a certificate in Food Systems, the Environment, and Public Health from the Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future, and a BS in Anthropology and Human Biology from Emory University.
