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.
Abioye AI, Hughes MD, Sudfeld CR, Premji Z, Aboud S, Hamer DH, Roberts DJ, Duggan CP, Fawzi WW.
Eur J Nutr. 2022 Nov 08. PMID: 36344770
Andersen CT, Duggan CP, Manji K, Seage GR, Spiegelman D, Perumal N, Ulenga N, Fawzi WW.
Int J Epidemiol. 2022 10 13. 51(5):1533-1543. PMID: 35167662
Mason JB, Duggan CP.
Am J Clin Nutr. 2022 Oct 06. 116(4):843. PMID: 35993586
Kirby MA, Lauer JM, Muhihi A, Ulenga N, Aboud S, Liu E, Choy RKM, Arndt MB, Kou J, Gewirtz A, Fawzi WW, Duggan CP, Manji KP, Sudfeld CR.
EBioMedicine. 2022 Oct. 84:104257. PMID: 36130475
Quinn MK, Williams PL, Muhihi A, Duggan CP, Ulenga N, Alwy Al-Beity FM, Perumal N, Aboud S, Fawzi WW, Manji KP, Sudfeld CR.
J Infect Dis. 2022 09 04. 226(4):687-695. PMID: 35678698
Carter RC, Senekal M, Duggan CP, Dodge NC, Meintjes EM, Molteno CD, Jacobson JL, Jacobson SW.
Am J Clin Nutr. 2022 08 04. 116(2):460-469. PMID: 35441212
Abrams SA, Duggan CP.
Am J Clin Nutr. 2022 08 04. 116(2):289-292. PMID: 35580593
Kumar M, Chowdhury R, Sinha B, Upadhyay RP, Chandola TR, Mazumder S, Taneja S, Edmond K, Bahl R, Bhandari N, Ramakrishnan U, Rivera JA, Tandon S, Duggan CP, Liu E, Fawzi W, Manji K, Choudhary TS.
Pediatrics. 2022 08 01. 150(Suppl 1). PMID: 35921670
Culbreath K, Knell J, Keefe G, Han SM, Hong CR, Riley HB, Liu E, McAdam AJ, Modi BP, Jaksic T, Duggan CP, Carey AN.
J Pediatr Gastroenterol Nutr. 2022 09 01. 75(3):345-350. PMID: 35653418
Melhem G, Rees CA, Sunguya BF, Ali M, Kurpad A, Duggan CP.
JAMA Netw Open. 2022 05 02. 5(5):e2213269. PMID: 35604686
Latifat Okara, MPH ’21, is raising awareness for mothers about the lifelong importance of serving healthy food to babies.
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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…
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