undernutrition – Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies

Blood tests during infancy could help to identify children more likely to become underweight in Tanzania

May 03, 2016

Harvard Pop Center faculty member Wafaie Fawzi is author on a paper published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition that has found that Tanzanian infants (at 6 weeks) with elevated levels of antibodies to LPS and flagellin (potential markers of…

By honing in on top 5 risk factors for child undernutrition in India, findings could lead to more effective interventions

December 18, 2015

Harvard Pop Center affiliated researchers including recent Bell Fellow Daniel Corsi, PhD, research associate Iván Mejía-Guevara, PhD, and faculty and executive committee member SV Subramanian (Subu), PhD, have published a study in Social…

Despite economic progress, millions of women in low- and middle-income countries still severely undernourished

December 01, 2015

Harvard Pop Center faculty and researchers, including Fahad Razak, MD, former Bell Fellow and current visiting scientist, as well as former Bell Fellow Daniel Corsi, PhD, Pop Center Director Lisa Berkman, PhD, and faculty member SV Subramanian (Subu),…