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Past news
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Our Singida study won the 10th McKnight Community of Practice poster competition!
Congratulations to our colleagues, Clara Mollay (NM-AIST) and Esther Kalonga (AATZ) et alia for winning the poster competition at the 10th McKnight Community of Practice meeting in Lilongwe, Malawi. The poster highlighted the various activities undertaken during the first phase of this project and our baseline findings that there is high potential to benefit from this project.…
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First preliminary findings from our Pith Moromo pregnancy cohort
Here’s our Kenyan team at their October monthly meeting. At this meeting, study coordinators Pauline Wekesa and Shalean Collins shared the results from the Pith Moromo study with study nurses and trackers. The team is now working together to interpret and share findings with study participants. Here’s the first taste of our results from Pith Moromo!
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Dr. Paula Pebsworth to discuss geophagy in non-human primates in the International Primatological Society meeting
Congratulations to Dr. Paula Pebsworth, whose abstract “Can geophagy alter the feeding ecology of non-human primates?: a systematic literature review” has been programed for an oral presentation on Tuesday, August 23 @ 4:30, at the joint meeting of the International Primatological Society and the American Society of Primatologists in Chicago. She will discuss which non-human primate species have been…
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Pregnancy, HIV, and water insecurity
Congratulations to Dr. Natalie Krumdieck and co-authors whose manuscript “Household water insecurity is associated with a range of negative consequences among pregnant Kenyan women of mixed HIV status” was accepted into the Journal of Water and Health. This is our group’s first publication on water insecurity, and the first to our knowledge exploring household water insecurity…
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BBC digs geophagy
Geophagy was focus of a recent BBC-Future story: http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20160615-the-people-who-cant-stop-eating-dirt. I was so happy that they took our evolutionary perspective on pica very seriously!
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SNAP Mentor Farmer Selection-Village randomization complete
The Singida Nutrition and Agroecology Program (SNAP) is now successfully underway! Farmers were invited to nominate themselves and make campaign speeches before one male and one female “mentor farmer” was selected by their villages. Pictured below are the elected mentor farmers. These mentor farmers then gathered in Singida town to see whether the luck of the draw designated their…
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Abby Maranga wins first place at the Emerging Leaders in Nutrition Poster Competition at Experimental Biology
Congratulations to Abby Maranga and colleagues (Undergraduate majoring in Biology & Society, Cornell University ’16) who received First Place and a $500 travel grant for her poster “Perceived Benefits of Livestock Ownership among Female Smallholders of Mixed-HIV Status in Nyanza Province, Kenya” in the American Society of Nutrition’s Emerging Leaders in Nutrition Poster Competition. This…
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Irene Tsai wins second place at the Emerging Leaders in Nutrition Poster Competition at Experimental Biology!
Congratulations to Irene Tsai (an Undergrad in Policy Analysis and Management, Cornell 2016) and co-authors whose poster “Food Insecurity is Associated with Depression and Stress Among a Cohort of Pregnant Kenyan Women of Mixed-HIV status” received Second Place and a $300 travel grant in the American Society For Nutrition’s Emerging Leaders in Nutrition Poster Competition.…
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A new way to study iron bioavailability in geophagic earth
Who would have thought, but— chickens are a great model of human iron metabolism! As such, they can help us to understand effects of geophagy. In our recently published paper in Nutrients we show that a poultry model has clear advantages over prior methods used both in vitro and in humans, and represents an important step in explaining…
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Our manuscript was accepted into Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal
Congratulations to Dr. Jane Achan and coauthors whose manuscript “Growth recovery among HIV-infected children randomized to Lopinavir/ritonavir or Non-nucleotide reverse transcriptase inhibitor-based antiretroviral therapy” was accepted into the Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal (PIDJ).
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Josh Miller wins the Laureen Knutsen Scholarship
Congratulations to Josh Miller, an undergraduate member of our team, for receiving the Laureen Knutsen Scholarship! This award will help fund him to travel to Kenya and work closely with our study team this summer.
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Dr. Itziar Familiar presents on infant cognitive development and HIV at AIDS
Congratulations to Dr. Itziar Familiar and co-authors for their abstract “Predictors of neurocognitive outcomes among a cohort of 12-month old infants from Uganda of mixed HIV status” was programmed for a poster presentation at The International AIDS Conference in Durban, South Africa. In this work, we found that HIV-exposed-uninfected children have significantly more cognitive delay than…