Harvard Pop Center faculty member Wafaie Fawzi is author on a paper published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition that has found that Tanzanian infants (at 6 weeks) with elevated levels of antibodies to LPS and flagellin (potential markers of environmental enteric dysfunction (EED)) in their blood were approximately two times more likely to become underweight.
By honing in on top 5 risk factors for child undernutrition in India, findings could lead to more effective interventions
Harvard Pop Center affiliated researchers including recent Bell Fellow Daniel Corsi, PhD, research associate Iván Mejía-Guevara, PhD, and faculty and executive committee member SV Subramanian (Subu), PhD, have published a study in Social Science & Medicine that has evaluated the contribution of 15 common risk factors for chronic child undernutrition in India. The findings point to five risk factors responsible for more than 65% of the problem. Learn more in…
Despite economic progress, millions of women in low- and middle-income countries still severely undernourished
Harvard Pop Center faculty and researchers, including Fahad Razak, MD, former Bell Fellow and current visiting scientist, as well as former Bell Fellow Daniel Corsi, PhD, Pop Center Director Lisa Berkman, PhD, and faculty member SV Subramanian (Subu), PhD, are among the authors of a novel study published in JAMA on severe, chronic, adult undernutrition. The study provides the first global estimate of severe undernutrition (defined by body mass index…