Hale Ann Tufan's work focuses on building gender-responsive agricultural research systems through curriculum development. As a 2021–22 Global Public Voices fellow, she would like to impact global public conversations on food insecurity and gender inequality within international agricultural research systems.

Tufan is the associate director for the Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Crop Improvement and codirector of the Gender Responsive Researchers Equipped for Agricultural Transformation (GREAT) project.