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Past news
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Roseanne to give oral presentation at the American Public Health Association annual meeting!
Roseanne’s abstract “The women have trust in me, and I try to live up to this trust: Health worker motivation and workplace characteristics among facility- and community-based health workers in rural Mozambique” has been accepted for an oral presentation at the American Public Health Association’s 2014 annual meeting in November. This is Roseanne’s…
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Angela is officially an MD!
Congrats to Angela Arbach on graduating from Cornell Weill with her MD! Her commitment and compassion for the health of vulnerable populations is an inspiration. Well done, Angela!
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Pica among Mexican-born women
Our formative study on pica practices and beliefs among Mexican women in the US and Mexico has just been published in Maternal and Child Nutrition. We found that more than 1/3 of women reported pica behavior during pregnancy, especially earth, adobe, bean stones and ice. This paper is the result of collaboration with scientists at…
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Farewell AMMA!
The Amsterdam Master’s in Medical Anthropology closed its proverbial doors this year, and it will be greatly missed. To commemorate this wonderful program, a compilation of former students’ work has been published. It’s available here, and includes my first ever publication, an ethnography of maternal anemia in Pemba, Tanzania (Young Maternal Anemia Ethnography 2002).
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NPR interviews Sera for story on geophagy
In a very interesting story on geophagy, Adam Forrester’s forthcoming documentary on geophagy, Eat White Dirt, and Sera’s book were discussed at length.
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PreNAPS finishes recruitment!!!
Our last little baby, (participant number 403) in our PreNAPS study in northern Uganda has been born– hurray hurray! Many thanks to the whole NAPS team, and especially Barnabas Natamba. They have been working hard to implement manage this big and important study. The follow-up study, PostNAPS, is slated to finish in January 2015.
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Evaluation of Food by Prescription program in Kenya published
Our evaluation of the nutritional effects of the Food by Prescription program in Nyanza Province, Kenya, has just been published. This is important because limited data exist to guide food programs targeted to persons living with HIV/AIDS in terms of identifying individuals with the greatest potential to benefit, appropriate enrollment criteria, optimal duration, and appropriate exit…
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Food insecurity and infant feeding among HIV-exposed infants in Uganda
I am so pleased that the first quantitative examination of infant feeding practices in the context of HIV has been published in Maternal and Child Health Journal. Much gratitude to my colleagues at UCSF and in Uganda for their efforts to make this happen.
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PhotoVoice study of infant feeding launching in Nyanza, Kenya
Angela Arbach (center) has arrived in Kenya to join Beryl Oyier (R) and Sophie Otticha (L) for a PhotoVoice study on the determinants of infant feeding practices. She will be bringing her considerable expertise developed during her PhotoVoice work with the NAPS study in Uganda, about experiences with food insecurity during pregnancy.
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Two NAPS team members selected for nutrition training in India!
Congratulations to Winny Achoko and Claire Biribawa! These two members of our esteemed NAPS team in Uganda have been selected for the International Course in Nutrition Research Methods, offered by the Bangalore Boston Nutrition Collaboration at St. John’s Medical College and Research Institute, in Bangalore, India. We are so proud.
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Sera and Aurora head to Kenya
Sera and her new baby daughter Aurora Penelope Lucks went to Kisumu, Kenya to check in on formative work that will inform the cohort study “Pith Moromo”. Pith Moromo will provide insights on the mechanisms by which food insecurity impacts pregnant and lactating mothers and their children, and is slated to begin Summer 2014.
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Neurodevelopment study starts in Gulu, Uganda
As part of our ongoing NAPS cohort, we will be assessing the neurodevelopment of infants in our study at 6 and 12 months. Ms. Annet Biribawa of Global Health Uganda has trained two NAPS research assistants from Gulu, Harriet and Daniel to administer the Mullen Scales of Early Learning, CBCL, and HOME interviews instruments. From…