Shannon King

ORCID: 0000-0001-9709-3562
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Research Areas
  • Child Nutrition and Water Access
  • Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations
  • Iron Metabolism and Disorders
  • Global Maternal and Child Health
  • Race, History, and American Society
  • Child Nutrition and Feeding Issues
  • International Development and Aid
  • Breastfeeding Practices and Influences
  • Birth, Development, and Health
  • Folate and B Vitamins Research
  • Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
  • Nutritional Studies and Diet
  • Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment
  • Education, Achievement, and Giftedness
  • Cancer Risks and Factors
  • Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact
  • Educational Assessment and Improvement
  • Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
  • Plant Micronutrient Interactions and Effects
  • Problem and Project Based Learning
  • Behavioral and Psychological Studies
  • Latin American and Latino Studies
  • Education and Critical Thinking Development
  • Pregnancy and preeclampsia studies
  • Pregnancy and Medication Impact

Johns Hopkins University
2019-2024

Battelle
2023

Fairfield University
2022

University of Guelph
2022

New York Academy of Sciences
2020

John Wiley & Sons (United States)
2020

Hudson Institute
2020

University of South Florida
2017

ABSTRACT Background High-quality healthcare for pregnant women and newborns, particularly postnatal care (PNC) small and/or sick newborn (SSNC), is essential to reducing maternal morbidity mortality in low- middle-income countries (LMICs). Poor quality of a major contributor preventable mortality, emphasizing the need improvements health service delivery, which requires measuring monitoring (QoC). Although indicators QoC have been identified, there current gap availability composite that can...

10.1101/2024.10.03.24314852 preprint EN cc-by medRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) 2024-10-04

Abstract Addressing malnutrition requires strategies that are comprehensive and multi‐sectoral. Within a multi‐sectoral approach, the health system is essential to deliver 10 nutrition‐specific interventions, which, if scaled up, could substantially reduce under‐5 deaths in high‐burden countries through improving maternal child undernutrition. This study identifies components required for effective delivery of these highlighting opportunities challenges nutrition programmes policies. We...

10.1111/mcn.13056 article EN cc-by Maternal and Child Nutrition 2020-07-20

Abstract The health sector plays an important role in the delivery of high‐quality nutrition interventions to women and children low‐ middle‐income countries (LMICs). However, there are no standardized approaches defining measuring service quality these contexts. This study aims systematically develop care indices for direct systems using a five‐step process: (1) identify recommended inclusion indices, (2) extract readiness, provision care, experience items from intervention‐specific...

10.1111/mcn.13279 article EN cc-by Maternal and Child Nutrition 2021-11-03

Mali national policy recommends that women take iron and folic acid supplements (IFA) from the time of first antenatal care (ANC) visit, throughout pregnancy during 3 months after delivery. In 2020, World Health Organization (WHO) updated their ANC guidelines to recommend United Nations International Multiple Micronutrient Antenatal Preparation (UNIMMAP) formulation multiple micronutrient (MMS) in context rigorous research, including implementation research. Bamako, Mali, a codesign process...

10.1111/mcn.13712 article EN cc-by Maternal and Child Nutrition 2024-08-22

There is a growing global demand for information to track nutritional status and its determinants, including intervention coverage. We developed an online survey identify which nutrition indicators data sources the community uses currently what gaps remain. created using Qualtrics software distributed it through multiple nutrition-focused listservs professional networks. Respondents were asked about their background, use of in previous year, accessed data, unfilled needs, how they used work....

10.1093/cdn/nzz042.p22-003-19 article EN cc-by-nc-nd Current Developments in Nutrition 2019-06-01

The global nutrition community has called for a multisectoral approach to improve nutritional outcomes. While most essential interventions are delivered through the health system, nutrition-sensitive from other sectors critical.

10.1177/0379572121998127 article EN cc-by Food and Nutrition Bulletin 2021-05-17
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