She teaches primarily in the fields of demography, development, and methodology. Ellen Messer is a nutritional anthropologist. She has been an associate professor at the Brown University World Hunger Program since 1986 and was its director from 1993 to 1996. She is co-editor of the Program's biannual Hunger Report. Sara Millman trained as a demographer at the universities of Washington (M.A.) and Michigan (Ph.D.), USA. She worked with the World Hunger Program at Brown University for several years. Currently Dr. Millman teaches sociology at the University of Hawaii at Hilo.