Maternal, Child & Adolescent Nutrition

The Global Nutrition Lab includes a portfolio of externally funded research on maternal, child, and adolescent nutrition in low- and middle-income countries.

India:

We are currently working with the Lata Medical Research Foundation (LMRF) in Nagpur, India and the Boston University School of Public Health (BUSPH) on several research projects on topics including 1) anemia during pregnancy; 2) the microbiome, resistome and micronutrient content of human milk and their relationship with infant nutritional status; and 3) an intervention study supporting community health workers in urban slums to promote maternal and child  nutrition and early childhood development.

Zambia:

We are currently working with researchers from Swiss TPH, Innovations for Poverty Action & BUSPH on a randomized trial of home-installed growth charts and/or small-quantity lipid-based nutrient supplements (SQ-LNS) for the prevention of stunting in children in three districts in Zambia. The Global Nutrition Lab faculty are leading the biomarker assessments and analyses aiming to understand the effect of the interventions on micronutrient status, biomarkers of enteric dysfunction and the child gut microbiome.