Faculty Affiliate in the Department of Global Health and Population
Global Health and Population
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Samuel J. Meltzer, MD Professor of Pediatrics in the Field of Gastroenterology
Pediatrics-Boston Children's Hospital
Harvard Medical School
Christopher Duggan, M.D., M.P.H. is a graduate of Dartmouth College and the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He trained in Pediatrics at Johns Hopkins Hospital, Nutrition and Gastroenterology at Boston Children's Hospital, and Clinical Epidemiology at the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health. He is Samuel Meltzer Professor of Pediatrics in the Field of Gastroenterology and Director of the Division of Nutrition at Harvard Medical School and a Professor in the Departments of Nutrition and Global Health and Population at Harvard Chan. He is a pediatric gastroenterologist and nutrition physician at Boston Children's Hospital where he directs the Center for Nutrition. He is Medical Director of the Center for Advanced Intestinal Rehabilitation, one of the largest centers for the care of children with intestinal failure/chronic diarrhea in the US. His research interests include the nutritional management of acute and persistent diarrhea, clinical trials of micronutrient supplementation, and general aspects of nutritional support in catabolism. In 2019, he was named Editor-in-Chief of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, one of the top-rated peer-reviewed journals in the field of nutrition.
Carey AN, Quinn N, Arouchon K, Elman DM, Buccigrosso TM, Mitchell PD, Duggan CP.
J Pediatr Gastroenterol Nutr. 2023 Jul 27. PMID: 37496142
Regan M, Muhihi A, Saleh A, Duggan CP, Ulenga N, Alwy Al-Beity FM, Aboud S, Fawzi WW, Manji KP, Sudfeld CR.
J Affect Disord. 2023 10 15. 339:82-88. PMID: 37437720
Pavlinac PB, Platts-Mills J, Liu J, Atlas HE, Gratz J, Operario D, Rogawski McQuade E, Ahmed D, Ahmed T, Alam T, Ashorn P, Badji H, Bahl R, Bar-Zeev N, Chisti MJ, Cornick J, Chauhan A, De Costa A, Deb S, Dhingra U, Dube Q, Duggan CP, Freyne B, Gumbi W, Hotwani A, Kabir M, Islam O, Kabir F, Kasumba I, Kibwana U, Kotloff KL, Khan SS, Maiden V, Manji K, Mehta A, Ndeketa L, Praharaj I, Qamar FN, Sazawal S, Simon J, Singa BO, Somji S, Sow SO, Tapia MD, Tigoi C, Toure A, Walson JL, Tahir Yousafzai M, Houpt ER.
J Infect Dis. 2023 Jul 05. PMID: 37405406
Caruso BA, Paniagua U, Hoffman I, Manji K, Saidi F, Sudfeld CR, Vernekar SS, Bakari M, Duggan CP, Kibogoyo GC, Kisenge R, Somji S, Kafansiyanji E, Mvalo T, Nyirenda N, Phiri M, Bellad R, Dhaded S, K A C, Koppad B, Nabapure S, Nanda S, Singh B, Yogeshkumar S, Fleming K, North K, Tuller DE, Semrau KEA, Vesel L, Young MF.
PLOS Glob Public Health. 2023. 3(6):e0001843. PMID: 37289720
Rees CA, Kisenge R, Ideh RC, Kamara J, Coleman YJ, Samma A, Godfrey E, Manji HK, Sudfeld CR, Westbrook AL, Niescierenko M, Morris CR, Whitney CG, Breiman RF, Manji KP, Duggan CP.
BMJ Paediatr Open. 2023 Jun. 7(1). PMID: 37385735
Koivu AM, Haapaniemi T, Askari S, Bhandari N, Black RE, Chico RM, Dewey KG, Duggan CP, Klein N, Kumar S, Lawn JE, Manji K, Näsänen-Gilmore PK, Salasibew M, Semrau KEA, Ashorn U, Ashorn P.
Am J Clin Nutr. 2023 06. 117 Suppl 2:S107-S117. PMID: 37331758
Zamborain-Mason J, Viana D, Nicholas K, Jackson ED, Koehn JZ, Passarelli S, Yoo SH, Zhang AW, Davin HC, Duggan CP, Schmidhuber J, Golden CD.
Curr Environ Health Rep. 2023 06. 10(2):172-183. PMID: 37227626
Hunter PJ, Awoyemi T, Ayede AI, Chico RM, David AL, Dewey KG, Duggan CP, Gravett M, Prendergast AJ, Ramakrishnan U, Ashorn P, Klein N.
Lancet. 2023 05 20. 401(10389):1720-1732. PMID: 37167990
Ashorn P, Ashorn U, Muthiani Y, Aboubaker S, Askari S, Bahl R, Black RE, Dalmiya N, Duggan CP, Hofmeyr GJ, Kennedy SH, Klein N, Lawn JE, Shiffman J, Simon J, Temmerman M.
Lancet. 2023 05 20. 401(10389):1692-1706. PMID: 37167991
Saleh A, Perumal N, Muhihi A, Duggan CP, Ulenga N, Al-Beity FMA, Aboud S, Fawzi WW, Manji KP, Sudfeld CR.
AIDS Behav. 2023 May 04. PMID: 37140717
Latifat Okara, MPH ’21, is raising awareness for mothers about the lifelong importance of serving healthy food to babies.
November 26, 2018 – Oral rehydration therapy (ORT)—a mixture of water, sugar, and salt that is remarkably effective at rehydrating people with cholera or other diarrheal diseases—is credited with saving tens of millions of lives worldwide. On November…
Giving women vitamin B12 supplements during pregnancy and in the weeks immediately after birth may improve cognitive development in their children, according to a new study from researchers at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and India’s…
May 24, 2013 -- India faces daunting public health challenges. Maternal and infant mortality rates are high. Malaria and tuberculosis persist stubbornly. Noncommunicable diseases such as diabetes and cancer are prevalent and increasing. And many—especially the poor—lack good…
March 11, 2013 -- India is poised to join the list of countries suffering from a dual burden of both infectious and chronic non-communicable diseases, many of which have their roots in diet and nutritional status. While poor…
