A5021715795- Child Nutrition and Water Access
- Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
- Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations
- Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact
- Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology
- Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development
- COVID-19 Impact on Reproduction
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Child Development and Digital Technology
- Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
- Global Maternal and Child Health
- Pregnancy and preeclampsia studies
- Public Health and Nutrition
- Breastfeeding Practices and Influences
- School Health and Nursing Education
- Mobile Health and mHealth Applications
- COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts
- Genetic and Environmental Crop Studies
- Healthcare Systems and Challenges
- Consumer Attitudes and Food Labeling
- Pregnancy-related medical research
- Suicide and Self-Harm Studies
- Nutrition, Health and Food Behavior
- Pregnancy and Medication Impact
- Gestational Diabetes Research and Management
Columbia University
2023-2025
SickKids Foundation
2020-2024
University of Toronto
2020-2024
Centre for Global Health Research
2018-2024
Hospital for Sick Children
2020-2024
Johns Hopkins University
2022-2023
Public Health Ontario
2022
Great Ormond Street Hospital
2020
University College London
2020
University of Guelph
2015
Understanding the burden and determinants of suicide during adolescence is key to achieving global health goals. We examined prevalence self-reported suicidal ideation attempts among younger (13-15 years) older adolescents (16-17 years).
Reformulation, a change to food or beverage's processing composition, can reduce potentially harmful ingredients such as salt, added sugar, and saturated trans fats increase beneficial nutrients fiber, protein, micronutrients. Poor nutrition health outcomes of populations have stimulated programs policies the intake unhealthy healthy meet recommended targets diet. Alongside promoting consumption whole, nutritious foods (e.g., fruits, vegetables, whole grains), reformulation, including...
Social protection programs (SPPs) are common in South Asia, a global malnutrition hotspot. Provision of SPP benefits as well essential health/nutrition interventions to mothers and children goals for optimal health development outcomes, but the degree co-coverage SPPs among beneficiary households is poorly described. Using six population-based surveys from 2012 2019 Bangladesh, India, Nepal (n=253,703 women with under five years age), we examined data availability (food cash transfers)...
Abstract Cooking meals at home is often recommended as a strategy to consume healthy diet and avoid ultra-processed foods unhealthy dietary patterns. However, cooking has traditionally been highly gendered activity, food environments, economies, social norms evolve globally, understanding of behaviors in different contexts needed. We analyzed repeated cross-sectional data from 135 countries the 2018–22 Gallup World Poll (n = 638 192). conducted unadjusted adjusted negative binomial...
Abstract Progress to improve nutrition among women, infants and children in South Asia has fallen behind the pace needed meet established global targets. Renewed political commitment monitoring of interventions are required coverage quality care. Our study aimed assess availability national policies, programmes, data for children, adolescents eight countries Asia. We reviewed relevant policy programme documents, examined questionnaires used most recent rounds 20 nationally representative...
Purpose: NutriSTEP® screens for nutritional risk in preschoolers (3–5 years of age). Availability has been limited to paper versions. The objective is test reliability Internet and Onscreen use.
The age at which children enter school represents a transitional period between early childhood and adolescence that involves increasing autonomy, interaction with peers, exposure to environments outside the home. Although mortality is generally much lower in 5 9 group compared infancy childhood, there are many preventable causes of mortality, morbidity, disability emerge this group, including injuries, noncommunicable diseases, vaccine-preventable highly treatable infections.1 Partly...