Mobilising evidence, data, and resources to achieve global maternal and child undernutrition targets and the Sustainable Development Goals: an agenda for action

Revisiting maternal and child undernutrition in low-income and middle-income countries: variable progress towards an unfinished agenda

(2021) Cesar G Victora et al.   LANCET

The Effects of Community Home Visit and Peer Group Nutrition Intervention Delivery Platforms on Nutrition Outcomes in Low and Middle-Income Countries: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

(2020) Amynah Janmohamed et al.   Nutrients

Strengthening the Immune System and Reducing Inflammation and Oxidative Stress through Diet and Nutrition: Considerations during the COVID-19 Crisis

(2020) Mohammed Iddir et al.   Nutrients

Early estimates of the indirect effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on maternal and child mortality in low-income and middle-income countries: a modelling study

(2020) Timothy Roberton et al.   Lancet Global Health

Investigating the delivery of health and nutrition interventions for women and children in conflict settings: a collection of case studies from the BRANCH Consortium

(2020) Anushka Ataullahjan et al.   Conflict and Health

COVID-19 pandemic and mitigation strategies: implications for maternal and child health and nutrition

(2020) Nadia Akseer et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF CLINICAL NUTRITION

How countries can reduce child stunting at scale: lessons from exemplar countries

(2020) Zulfiqar A Bhutta et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF CLINICAL NUTRITION

Impacts of COVID-19 on childhood malnutrition and nutrition-related mortality

(2020) Derek Headey et al.   LANCET

Child malnutrition and COVID-19: the time to act is now

(2020) Henrietta H Fore et al.   LANCET

A simplified, combined protocol versus standard treatment for acute malnutrition in children 6–59 months (ComPAS trial): A cluster-randomized controlled non-inferiority trial in Kenya and South Sudan

(2020) Jeanette Bailey et al.   PLOS MEDICINE

Measurement and accountability for maternal, newborn and child health: fit for 2030?

(2020) Tanya Marchant et al.   BMJ Global Health

Nutrition Interventions Integrated into an Existing Maternal, Neonatal, and Child Health Program Reduce Food Insecurity Among Recently Delivered and Pregnant Women in Bangladesh

(2019) Edward A Frongillo et al.   JOURNAL OF NUTRITION

Progress in the use of ORS and zinc for the treatment of childhood diarrhea

(2019) Robert E Black   Journal of Global Health

Effects of an mHealth intervention for community health workers on maternal and child nutrition and health service delivery in India: protocol for a quasi-experimental mixed-methods evaluation

(2019) Sneha Nimmagadda et al.   BMJ Open

Micronutrient Powder Programs: New Findings and Future Directions for Implementation Science

(2019) David Pelletier et al.   Maternal and Child Nutrition

The Global Syndemic of Obesity, Undernutrition, and Climate Change: The Lancet Commission report

(2019) Boyd A Swinburn et al.   LANCET

Improved micronutrient status and health outcomes in low- and middle-income countries following large-scale fortification: evidence from a systematic review and meta-analysis

(2019) Emily C Keats et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF CLINICAL NUTRITION

Multiple Micronutrient Supplements Are More Cost-effective than Iron and Folic Acid: Modeling Results from 3 High-Burden Asian Countries

(2019) Bahman Kashi et al.   JOURNAL OF NUTRITION

Validity of self-reported receipt of iron supplements during pregnancy: implications for coverage measurement

(2019) Mufaro Kanyangarara et al.   BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth

Weighing the risks of high intakes of selected micronutrients compared with the risks of deficiencies

(2019) Reina Engle‐Stone et al.   Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Behavior Change Interventions Delivered through Interpersonal Communication, Agricultural Activities, Community Mobilization, and Mass Media Increase Complementary Feeding Practices and Reduce Child Stunting in Ethiopia

(2019) Sunny S Kim et al.   JOURNAL OF NUTRITION

The Relative Caloric Prices of Healthy and Unhealthy Foods Differ Systematically across Income Levels and Continents

(2019) Derek D Headey et al.   JOURNAL OF NUTRITION

Unhealthy Snack Food and Beverage Consumption Is Associated with Lower Dietary Adequacy and Length-for-Age z-Scores among 12–23-Month-Olds in Kathmandu Valley, Nepal

(2019) Alissa M Pries et al.   JOURNAL OF NUTRITION

Prevalence, duration, and content of television advertisements for breast milk substitutes and commercially produced complementary foods in Phnom Penh, Cambodia and Dakar, Senegal

(2019) Mary Champeny et al.   Maternal and Child Nutrition

The effect of eggs on early child growth in rural Malawi: the Mazira Project randomized controlled trial

(2019) Christine P Stewart et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF CLINICAL NUTRITION

The implications of three major new trials for the effect of water, sanitation and hygiene on childhood diarrhea and stunting: a consensus statement

(2019) Oliver Cumming et al.   BMC Medicine

Impact on child acute malnutrition of integrating a preventive nutrition package into facility-based screening for acute malnutrition during well-baby consultation: A cluster-randomized controlled trial in Burkina Faso

(2019) Elodie Becquey et al.   PLOS MEDICINE

Impact on child acute malnutrition of integrating small-quantity lipid-based nutrient supplements into community-level screening for acute malnutrition: A cluster-randomized controlled trial in Mali

(2019) Lieven Huybregts et al.   PLOS MEDICINE

The WASH Benefits and SHINE trials: interpretation of WASH intervention effects on linear growth and diarrhoea

(2019) Amy J Pickering et al.   Lancet Global Health

Galvanizing political commitment in the UN Decade of Action for Nutrition: Assessing commitment in member-countries of the Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Movement

(2019) Patrizia Fracassi et al.   FOOD POLICY

A Brief History of Evidence-Informed Decision Making for Nutrition in Mexico

(2019) Lynnette M Neufeld et al.   JOURNAL OF NUTRITION

Use of mobile technology by frontline health workers to promote reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health and nutrition: a cluster randomized controlled Trial in Bihar, India

(2019) Suzan L Carmichael et al.   Journal of Global Health

Strategies to achieve adequate vitamin A intake for young children: options for Cameroon

(2019) Stephen A. Vosti et al.   Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Nutrition Intervention Using Behavioral Change Communication without Additional Material Inputs Increased Expenditures on Key Food Groups in Bangladesh

(2019) Andrea M Warren et al.   JOURNAL OF NUTRITION

Double-duty actions: seizing programme and policy opportunities to address malnutrition in all its forms

(2019) Corinna Hawkes et al.   LANCET

Effects of Preventive Nutrition Interventions among Adolescents on Health and Nutritional Status in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

(2019) Rehana A Salam et al.   Nutrients

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(2018)   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF CLINICAL NUTRITION

Identifying bottlenecks in the iron and folic acid supply chain in Bihar, India: a mixed-methods study

(2018) Amanda S. Wendt et al.   BMC HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH

Large-Scale Food Fortification and Biofortification in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Review of Programs, Trends, Challenges, and Evidence Gaps

(2018) Saskia J. M. Osendarp et al.   FOOD AND NUTRITION BULLETIN

Combined Protocol for Acute Malnutrition Study (ComPAS) in rural South Sudan and urban Kenya: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial

(2018) Jeanette Bailey et al.   Trials

Effects of water quality, sanitation, handwashing, and nutritional interventions on diarrhoea and child growth in rural Kenya: a cluster-randomised controlled trial

(2018) Clair Null et al.   Lancet Global Health

Monitoring universal health coverage within the Sustainable Development Goals: development and baseline data for an index of essential health services

(2018) Daniel R Hogan et al.   Lancet Global Health

Effects of water quality, sanitation, handwashing, and nutritional interventions on diarrhoea and child growth in rural Bangladesh: a cluster randomised controlled trial

(2018) Stephen P Luby et al.   Lancet Global Health

Nutrition-sensitive agriculture: What have we learned so far?

(2018) Marie T. Ruel et al.   Global Food Security-Agriculture Policy Economics and Environment

Effectiveness and Behavioral Mechanisms of Social Media Interventions for Positive Nutrition Behaviors in Adolescents: A Systematic Review

(2018) Michelle S.H. Hsu et al.   JOURNAL OF ADOLESCENT HEALTH

Efficacy of high zinc biofortified wheat in improvement of micronutrient status, and prevention of morbidity among preschool children and women - a double masked, randomized, controlled trial

(2018) Sunil Sazawal et al.   Nutrition Journal

Impact of anthropogenic CO2 emissions on global human nutrition

(2018) Matthew R. Smith et al.   Nature Climate Change

Effect of small-quantity lipid-based nutrient supplements on growth, psychomotor development, iron status, and morbidity among 6- to 12-mo-old infants in South Africa: a randomized controlled trial

(2018) Cornelius M Smuts et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF CLINICAL NUTRITION

Independent and combined effects of improved water, sanitation, and hygiene, and improved complementary feeding, on child stunting and anaemia in rural Zimbabwe: a cluster-randomised trial

(2018) Jean H Humphrey et al.   Lancet Global Health

Building integrated data systems for health and nutrition program evaluations: lessons learned from a multi-country implementation of a DHIS 2-based system

(2018) Elizabeth Hazel et al.   Journal of Global Health

Exposure to a Slightly Sweet Lipid-Based Nutrient Supplement During Early Life Does Not Increase the Preference for or Consumption of Sweet Foods and Beverages by 4–6-y-Old Ghanaian Preschool Children: Follow-up of a Randomized Controlled Trial

(2018) Harriet Okronipa et al.   JOURNAL OF NUTRITION

Social Franchising and a Nationwide Mass Media Campaign Increased the Prevalence of Adequate Complementary Feeding in Vietnam: A Cluster-Randomized Program Evaluation

(2017) Rahul Rawat et al.   JOURNAL OF NUTRITION

Integrating Nutrition Interventions into an Existing Maternal, Neonatal, and Child Health Program Increased Maternal Dietary Diversity, Micronutrient Intake, and Exclusive Breastfeeding Practices in Bangladesh: Results of a Cluster-Randomized Program Evaluation

(2017) Phuong Hong Nguyen et al.   JOURNAL OF NUTRITION

Eggs in Early Complementary Feeding and Child Growth: A Randomized Controlled Trial

(2017) Lora L. Iannotti et al.   PEDIATRICS

Effectiveness of food supplements in increasing fat-free tissue accretion in children with moderate acute malnutrition: A randomised 2 × 2 × 3 factorial trial in Burkina Faso

(2017) Christian Fabiansen et al.   PLOS MEDICINE

Impact evaluation of different cash-based intervention modalities on child and maternal nutritional status in Sindh Province, Pakistan, at 6 mo and at 1 y: A cluster randomised controlled trial

(2017) Bridget Fenn et al.   PLOS MEDICINE

Sustained effectiveness of weekly iron-folic acid supplementation and regular deworming over 6 years in women in rural Vietnam

(2017) Gerard J. Casey et al.   PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Accounting for nutritional changes in six success stories: A regression-decomposition approach

(2017) Derek Headey et al.   Global Food Security-Agriculture Policy Economics and Environment

Effects of maternal and child lipid-based nutrient supplements on infant development: a randomized trial in Malawi

(2016) Elizabeth L Prado et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF CLINICAL NUTRITION

Global regulatory framework for production and marketing of crops biofortified with vitamins and minerals

(2016) Luis A. Mejia et al.   Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Effects of pre- and post-natal lipid-based nutrient supplements on infant development in a randomized trial in Ghana

(2016) Elizabeth L. Prado et al.   EARLY HUMAN DEVELOPMENT

Combining Intensive Counseling by Frontline Workers with a Nationwide Mass Media Campaign Has Large Differential Impacts on Complementary Feeding Practices but Not on Child Growth: Results of a Cluster-Randomized Program Evaluation in Bangladesh

(2016) Purnima Menon et al.   JOURNAL OF NUTRITION

Breastfeeding in the 21st century: epidemiology, mechanisms, and lifelong effect

(2016) Cesar G Victora et al.   LANCET

Why invest, and what it will take to improve breastfeeding practices?

(2016) Nigel C Rollins et al.   LANCET

Our future: a Lancet commission on adolescent health and wellbeing

(2016) George C Patton et al.   LANCET

Impact of small quantity lipid-based nutrient supplements on infant and young child feeding practices at 18 months of age: results from four randomized controlled trials in Africa

(2016) Mary Arimond et al.   Maternal and Child Nutrition

Drivers of nutritional change in four South Asian countries: a dynamic observational analysis

(2016) Derek Headey et al.   Maternal and Child Nutrition

Reducing stunting by improving maternal, infant and young child nutrition in regions such as South Asia: evidence, challenges and opportunities

(2016) Kathryn G. Dewey   Maternal and Child Nutrition

Calcium Supplementation to Prevent Preeclampsia: Translating Guidelines into Practice in Low-Income Countries

(2016) Moshood O Omotayo et al.   Advances in Nutrition

Impacts on Breastfeeding Practices of At-Scale Strategies That Combine Intensive Interpersonal Counseling, Mass Media, and Community Mobilization: Results of Cluster-Randomized Program Evaluations in Bangladesh and Viet Nam

(2016) Purnima Menon et al.   PLOS MEDICINE

Assessing the validity of indicators of the quality of maternal and newborn health care in Kenya

(2016) Ann K Blanc et al.   Journal of Global Health

The Global Nutrition Report 2014: Actions and Accountability to Accelerate the World's Progress on Nutrition

(2015) Lawrence Haddad et al.   JOURNAL OF NUTRITION

Severe and Moderate Acute Malnutrition Can Be Successfully Managed with an Integrated Protocol in Sierra Leone

(2015) Amanda Maust et al.   JOURNAL OF NUTRITION

Smart food policies for obesity prevention

(2015) Corinna Hawkes et al.   LANCET

The effect of balanced protein energy supplementation in undernourished pregnant women and child physical growth in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review and meta-analysis

(2015) Briony Stevens et al.   Maternal and Child Nutrition

Production diversity and dietary diversity in smallholder farm households

(2015) Kibrom T. Sibhatu et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Iron+folic acid distribution and consumption through antenatal care: identifying barriers across countries

(2015) Celeste Sununtnasuk et al.   PUBLIC HEALTH NUTRITION

The environmental impact of nutrition transition in three case study countries

(2015) Margaret Gill et al.   Food Security

Revisiting the Concept of Growth Monitoring and its Possible Role in Community-Based Nutrition Programs

(2015) Nuné Mangasaryan et al.   FOOD AND NUTRITION BULLETIN

Coverage of Community-Based Management of Severe Acute Malnutrition Programmes in Twenty-One Countries, 2012-2013

(2015) Eleanor Rogers et al.   PLoS One

Undernutrition, the Acute Phase Response to Infection, and Its Effects on Micronutrient Status Indicators

(2014) Kara A. Bresnahan et al.   Advances in Nutrition

Evidence-based interventions for improvement of maternal and child nutrition: what can be done and at what cost?

(2013) Zulfiqar A Bhutta et al.   LANCET

Measuring Coverage in MNCH: Testing the Validity of Women's Self-Report of Key Maternal and Newborn Health Interventions during the Peripartum Period in Mozambique

(2013) Cynthia K. Stanton et al.   PLoS One

Economic growth and obesity: An interesting relationship with world-wide implications

(2012) Garry Egger et al.   Economics & Human Biology

Introduction of β-Carotene–Rich Orange Sweet Potato in Rural Uganda Resulted in Increased Vitamin A Intakes among Children and Women and Improved Vitamin A Status among Children

(2012) Christine Hotz et al.   JOURNAL OF NUTRITION

Maternal Nutrition and Birth Outcomes: Effect of Balanced Protein-Energy Supplementation

(2012) Aamer Imdad et al.   PAEDIATRIC AND PERINATAL EPIDEMIOLOGY

Breastfeeding Promotion, Support and Protection: Review of Six Country Programmes

(2012) Nune Mangasaryan et al.   Nutrients

Scaling Up of Breastfeeding Promotion Programs in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: the “Breastfeeding Gear” Model

(2012) Rafael Pérez-Escamilla et al.   Advances in Nutrition

Effect of balanced protein energy supplementation during pregnancy on birth outcomes

(2011) Aamer Imdad et al.   BMC PUBLIC HEALTH

A large-scale intervention to introduce orange sweet potato in rural Mozambique increases vitamin A intakes among children and women

(2011) Christine Hotz et al.   BRITISH JOURNAL OF NUTRITION

Role of cash in conditional cash transfer programmes for child health, growth, and development: an analysis of Mexico's Oportunidades

(2008) Lia CH Fernald et al.   LANCET

Growth monitoring and promotion: review of evidence of impact

(2008) Ann Ashworth et al.   Maternal and Child Nutrition