[1][2] Prior to joining Columbia in July 2023, she was the Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Global Food and Agriculture Policy and Ethics at the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics, the Bloomberg School of Public Health, and the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies.

[4] Fanzo earned her Bachelor of Science degree in Agriculture, Master's degree in Nutritional Sciences and an interdisciplinary PhD in Nutrition from the University of Arizona, and completed a Stephen I. Morse postdoctoral fellowship in Immunology at the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University.

[5] Upon completing her postdoctoral research, Fanzo chose to focus on the field of global health and went to rural sub-Saharan Africa to assist with international work on HIV/AIDS.

[9] Fanzo's research is on sustainable food systems and their impacts on healthy and equitable diets in resource-constrained contexts.

Fanzo has served as the Editor-in-Chief of Global Food Security[10] and as an Associate Editor on The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.