Infant and child formula shortages: now is the time to prevent recurrences.
Abrams SA, Duggan CP.
Am J Clin Nutr. 2022 May 17. PMID: 35580593
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 Harvard School of Public Health. He is Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School and a Professor in the Departments of Nutrition and Global Health/Population at Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health. 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. He leads NIH-funded trials of micronutrient supplementation in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and Bangalore, India.
Abrams SA, Duggan CP.
Am J Clin Nutr. 2022 May 17. PMID: 35580593
Melhem G, Rees CA, Sunguya BF, Ali M, Kurpad A, Duggan CP.
JAMA Netw Open. 2022 May 02. 5(5):e2213269. PMID: 35604686
Rees CA, Stewart AM, Mehta S, Avakame E, Jackson J, McKay J, Portillo EN, Michelson KA, Duggan CP, Fleegler EW.
JAMA Pediatr. 2022 May 01. 176(5):e220142. PMID: 35311946
Carter RC, Senekal M, Duggan CP, Dodge NC, Meintjes EM, Molteno CD, Jacobson JL, Jacobson SW.
Am J Clin Nutr. 2022 Apr 19. PMID: 35441212
Sudfeld CR, Manji KP, Muhihi A, Duggan CP, Aboud S, Alwy Al-Beity FM, Wang M, Zhang N, Ulenga N, Fawzi WW.
PLoS Med. 2022 04. 19(4):e1003973. PMID: 35427363
Duggan CP.
JPEN J Parenter Enteral Nutr. 2022 Apr 11. PMID: 35403273
Rees CA, Neuman MI, Monuteaux MC, Michelson KA, Duggan CP.
J Pediatr. 2022 Mar 29. PMID: 35364094
Saronga HP, Manji K, Liu E, Duggan CP, Menzies NA.
Public Health Nutr. 2022 Mar 11. 1-26. PMID: 35272738
Gray M, Duggan CP.
World Rev Nutr Diet. 2022. 124:285-290. PMID: 35240625
Koletzko B, Bhutta ZA, Cai W, Dhansay MA, Duggan CP, Makrides M, Orsi M.
World Rev Nutr Diet. 2022. 124:IX-X. PMID: 35240655
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