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Past news
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Farmer-led curriculum for East Africa well underway!
We had an absolutely astounding week in Ekwendeni, Malawi, working on developing an integrated curriculum that can be used by farmers to teach other farmers about agroecological techniques, nutrition, gender equality and climate change. Did I mention these messages will be tied together with a dramatic soap opera outline, and feature plenty of singing, dancing, and science?…
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“Evaluative Ethnography” laid out in awesome new forthcoming text
In a chapter in “Ethnographic Research in Maternal and Child Health” Gretel Pelto and I introduce the term “evaluative ethnography” to capture the multi-faceted roles of ethnography to inform and improve the translational process from discovery-oriented research to implementation research. The book, edited by Fiona Dykes and Renée Flacking will be out in 2016, and is definitely…
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The first UpToDate entry on pica is out
UpToDate is a handy-dandy online clinical reference tool that clinicians around the world use. I was delighted that they asked me to prepare their first entry on pica. And, I was lucky enough to have Jean Cox, MS, RD, who cares for many women with pica in New Mexico, as co-author. Thanks Jean!
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Devon wins a Fulbright
Congratulations to our very own Devon McMahon for winning a Fulbright to return to Nepal to study health worker retention. Awesome work, Devon!
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Rocking it out at Experimental Biology
The Young Group seriously represented at EB this year. We had 7 posters and 2 talks: Most importantly, much fun was had by all!
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Pith Moromo cohort enrollment concluded– with thanks to Pith Moromo team and Beyoncé
We are delighted to have completed enrollment of all 371 pregnant women into our NIMH-funded observational cohort study in Nyanza, Kenya. Over 200 infants have already been born, including a baby Beyoncé*! None of this would be possible without the excellent enrollment and retainment efforts of the whole Pith Moromo 2 crew. Bravo! (*Actual photo not used.)
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Undernutrition associated with lower HIV drug pharmacokinetics in Ugandan children
In our paper just published in the Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal, we report findings on how undernutrition among children in Tororo, Uganda, is associated with lower absorption of some HIV drugs. More research is needed to understand the mechanisms underpinning these observations. Congrats to Imke and team!
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Fabulous Women in Global Health Research Symposium at Weill
Some awesome faculty at Cornell Weill put on an important and engaging symposium on Women in Global Health Research. They were kind enough to invite a number of us down from Ithaca, and it was a lovely occasion for a quick group reunion with Angela Arbach (post-call here!).
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Congrats to Dr. Anne Williams
Congratulations to Anne Williams for the excellent work on her EB submission, for which she was recognized as a finalist for ASN’s Emerging Leaders in Nutrition Science Poster Competition. Her submission is entitled “Breastmilk Vitamin B12 Concentration is Low among Women in Western Kenya and is Not Associated with Animal Source Food Intake or Food Insecurity” and co-authors…
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The Cover!
Our meta-analysis of the relationship between pica and several micronutrient deficiencies is on the cover of volume 27 of the American Journal of Human Biology.
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Welcome our new post-doc, Katie Fiorella!
Katie Fiorella is an ecologist and epidemiologist finishing up her Ph.D. at UC Berkeley in Justin Brashares’ research group. She applied for and won a post-doc from the Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future to work with Chris Barrett (Applied Econ) and me on food security and agricultural productivity in east Africa. She will join the group…
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New grant to reduce food insecurity in rural Tanzania
Rachel Bezner Kerr, Elias Mtinda at Action Aid Tanzania, and I have been awarded a grant from the McKnight Foundation. This will fund a three-year farmer-led agroecological education intervention, called SNAP: Singida Nutrition and Agroecology Project. We will be assessing the impacts of this intervention on legume production, food insecurity, and infant and young child…