News

New news from The Young Research Group will be shared on Dr. Sera Young’s LinkedIn.


Past news

  • Sera wins the Mead Award!

    Sera has received the prestigious Margaret Mead Prize, given jointly by the Society for Applied Anthropology and the American Anthropological Association in recognition of exemplary skills in broadening the impact of anthropology. For more info, see the recent Chronicle story.  

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  • Pith Moromo data collection has begun…

    … and we have Ms. Sophie Otticha, Ms. Beryl Oyier, Ms. Vicky Spraggon (pictured here) and Dr. Maricianah Onono (camera shy) to thank for it. These findings will inform the cohort study about the health consequences of food insecurity for moms and babies, planned for Summer 2014.

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  • Geophagy documentary filming in Ithaca

    A film crew making a documentary about geophagy, called Eat White Dirt came to Ithaca to interview Sera and Dr. Kimberly O’Brien about their work on pica.

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  • Our new publications from September, 2013

    Our review on the role of food insecurity in adherence to HIV recommendations has been published in AIDS & Behavior.   Our review on measuring food insecurity is out in Advances in Nutrition.

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  • Welcome Hijab and Sophie

    Hijab Khan (Cornell 2016) and Sophie Mou (Cornell 2016) have joined the group, and will be working on data from our NAPS study in Uganda.

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  • Public radio show about geophagy

    The public radio program Big Picture Science interviewed Sera about her research on pica.

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  • Data collection starts in Mozambique, and more

    Começando Saudável (“Starting Off Healthy”), Roseanne’s performance-based incentives intervention in partnership with CARE Mozambique, launched in August. This one-year pilot is engaging health center staff, community volunteers, and traditional birth attendants in improving delivery of prevention of vertical transmission of HIV services to pregnant and lactating women living with HIV and their HIV-exposed children in…

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