Centre for Global Health: Nutrition
Currently, states of over- or undernutrition underlie a considerable proportion of morbidity and mortality worldwide. Whereas overweight/obesity used to be confined to the developed countries, it is now expanding also within the developing world, countries that still battle with malnutrition and its dismal consequences for health. Nutrition, being a life-long "project", therefore mandates high-quality research.

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Projects
Maternal nutrition
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Efforts to improve maternal nutrition during pregnancy to avoid low birth weight infants - Penjani Kamudoni / Gerd Holmboe-Ottesen and Per Ole Iversen
Childhood nutrition
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The Child Nutrition and Development Study (CHNUDEV)- Per Ole Iversen
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Severe acute malnutrition in Kenyan children - Per Ole Iversen
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Treatment of moderate acute malnutrition in small children living in rural Sierra Leone - Per Ole Iversen
News and publications
- Nutritional status among adolescent girls in children's homes: Anthropometry and dietary patterns
- Nutrition, hygiene, and stimulation education to improve growth, cognitive, language, and motor development among infants in Uganda: A cluster-randomized trial
- The impact of rickets on growth and morbidity during recovery among children with complicated severe acute malnutrition in Kenya: A cohort study
- Can simple dietary advice improve maternal and child health?
- Maternal dietary intake during pregnancy and its association to birth size in rural Malawi: A cross-sectional study
- Food variety consumption and household food insecurity coping strategies after the 2010 landslide disaster – the case of Uganda
- Nutritional and developmental status among 6- to 8-month-old children in southwestern Uganda: a cross-sectional study
- Human rights dimensions of food, health and care in children’s homes in Kampala, Uganda – a qualitative study
- Household food insecurity and diet diversity after the major 2010 landslide disaster in Eastern Uganda: a cross-sectional survey.
- Evaluation of selected aspects of the Nutrition Therapeutic Programme offered to HIV-positive women of child-bearing age in Western Cape Province, South Africa
- Perceptions on the right to adequate food after a major landslide disaster: a cross-sectional survey of two districts in Uganda.
- Food as a human right during disasters in Uganda