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Past news
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Experimental Biology 2017
Our group tore it up at back-to-back scientific meetings this year! Congratulations to post-doc Godfred Boateng, who received first place in the American Society for Nutrition’s Emerging Leaders Poster Competition! The Community and Public Health RIS awarded this to Godfred presented his work entitled “Food Insecurity and HIV-exposure are Deleterious to Infant Cognitive Development in Kenya:…
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A Great First Human Biology Association Meeting!
The Young Research Group had a terrific first Human Biology Association Meeting! The team traveled to New Orleans to present findings from our Pith Moromo Kenyan cohort study. Josh Miller’s poster “Perinatal geophagy is associated with HIV and anemia among women in western Kenya” was selected for the Hilde Spielvogel Award! Godfred Boateng presented his…
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Ethnonutrition knowledge and dietary diversity in Tanzania
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 is pictured here in her garden where she has planted cassava…
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A review of what we know, and what we don’t, about household water insecurity
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 to Wendy Jepson and Amber Wutich for being such awesome…
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Dr. Young Presents at Northwestern Domain Dinner
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 Northwestern. During the panel discussion, Dr. Young presented about the…
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From the Classroom to the Real World: A Field Trip to a Baby-Friendly Hospital
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 touring the labor and delivery rooms, recovery suites, and nursery,…
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We received the Leverhulme IMMANA award to continue our water insecurity work!
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 teaming up with collaborators working in the Shamba Maisha study in Kenya,…
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HIV, lactation, and body composition
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 the first publication to examine the role of food insecurity…
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Third Coast Center for AIDS Research likes our rabbit and orange-flesh sweet potato venture!
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.
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“Reimagining Household Water Security” Workshop at Texas A&M
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 making this happen!
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Dr. Roseanne Schuster presents at The Symposium on Health Systems Research
Congratulations to Dr. Roseanne Schuster who will be presenting Illuminating the “Black Box”: How performance-based incentives affect health workers delivering prevention of vertical transmission of HIV in rural Mozambique! This presentation will report on how performance-based incentives increased motivating supervision, decreased thoughts of leaving, and increased worker empowerment in our intervention study in Mozambique.
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Dr. Roseanne Schuster Presents at APHA
Congratulations to Roseanne Schuster and former undergrad lab members Yeri Son and Jacqueline Rivera, whose abstract “I am fighting for my life”: Barriers to uptake of prevention of vertical transmission of HIV services experienced by women in rural Mozambique has been programmed for an oral presentation at the American Public Health Association Annual Meeting!