[3] Patrick Webb held the Alexander McFarlane endowed chair at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University.

[13] Webb is one of the world's most influential voices in the fields of food policy, climate change, and nutrition,[14] including as these relate to the domain of humanitarian intervention.

[30] He served as Vice Chair of the European Commission's High Level Expert Group on Science-Policy Interfaces for Food System Transformation (2020-2022).

Chichester, UK: John Wiley, co-authored with Joachim von Braun,[35] was reviewed in the New Scientist[36] under the title,"A hard row to hoe" by Michael Cross on 24 September 1994.

Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press[37] was reviewed as "among the best of primers on current knowledge on famine prevention, market integration and malfunction, and household food security" by the Humanitarian Times, 17 Feb 1999.

[42] His current research is focused on how diets and food systems interact with climate change, ecological degradation and social justice concerns.