Tobias Stillman is a senior research associate at the Center for International and Security Studies
(CISSM) with over 30 years of leadership experience at the intersection of health, nutrition, food
security and food systems in fragile and humanitarian settings. He has designed and led research,
technical strategies and programs for major international organizations including UNICEF, Save the
Children and Action Against Hunger, operating across more than 35 countries in Africa, Asia, Latin
America and the Middle East.
Stillman’s work centers on applying evidence to shape policy and practice—advancing global
standards and delivering high-impact programming through research, innovation, policy development
and systems strengthening. His experience includes managing large-scale global initiatives, coordinating
interagency emergency responses, and advising governments on food and nutrition policy.
He holds an MPH from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and has lectured on
humanitarian response at Johns Hopkins University, Columbia University and the University of
Zimbabwe. His past research interests include the political economy of the global nutrition transition,
community-based management of wasting and childhood illnesses, emergency assessment
methodologies and famine early warning systems.
At CISSM, Stillman explores how AI and model-based forecasting can enhance prevention and
response to food security and nutrition crises, and how concepts of localization and decolonization
inform the evolution of the global humanitarian response architecture.