Congratulations to Dr. Bronwen Powell! Our paper, based on her excellent dissertation work, is entitled “The determinants of dietary diversity and nutrition: ethnonutrition knowledge of local people in the East Usambara Mountains, Tanzania“. It was published in the Journal of Ethnobiography and Ethnomedicine. Anna Earnest …
Our invited review on water insecurity “Progress in Household Water Insecurity Metrics: A Cross-Discpilinary Approach in the Social Sciences” has been published in WIREs Water. This marks the beginning of an exciting cross-disciplinary collaboration as delve into the many aspects of household-level water insecurity globally! Special thanks …
On April 5, Dr. Young had the distinct privilege of moderating a Northwestern Domain Dinner. The Lawrence B. Dumas Domain Dinners offer a unique platform for scholars and social leaders to connect and collaborate, and are one of the features that originally drew her to …
In March, Dr. Young and the first cohort of students in her class “Ecology of Infant Feeding: A global perspective on the best ways to feed babies” visited Advocate Trinity Hospital, a facility that has the esteemed distinction of being the first baby-friendly hospital in Chicago. While …
We are delighted to announce that we have been awarded an Innovative Methods and Metrics for Agriculture and Nutrition Actions (IMMANA) grant from the Leverhulme Center for Integrative Research on Agriculture and Health (LCIRAH)! This award will allow us to expand our water insecurity work by …
Congratulations to Dr. Elizabeth Widen and co-authors whose manuscript “Food insecurity, but not HIV-infection status, is associated with adverse changes in body composition during lactation in Ugandan women of mixed HIV status” has been published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. To our knowledge, this is …
Third Coast Center for AIDS Research (CFAR) has funded our collaboration with Kenyan colleagues to travel to Evanston to begin planning our latest research venture, a rabbit and orange-fleshed sweet potato farming initiative. Stay tuned for more information about this project in upcoming months.
I had the pleasure of attending an exciting conference on water insecurity at Texas A&M. This meeting brought together some awesome scholars from a variety fields with the ultimate goal of defining, measuring, and finding solutions to water insecurity. Thank you to Wendy Jepson and TAMU Geography for …