Ye Shen leads the cost-effectiveness work stream as the Cost Specialist and Data Analyst for the USAID-funded Food Aid Quality Review (FAQR) Project at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Tufts University. In particular, she is developing an interactive Decision Support Tool for more cost-effective programming of specialized nutritious food products, and involved in two cost-effectiveness research studies in West Africa. Prior to FAQR, she has contributed to GIS mixed methods research on food environment of the American Indian Reservations , and has worked on issues related to breastfeeding and breast-milk substitutes at the World Health Organization. Ye graduated from Johns Hopkins with a MSPH in International Health- Human Nutrition and a certificate in Public Health Economics. She has a B.A. in International Relations with a concentration in Global Health, Nutrition and the Environment from Tufts University.