Current Projects
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EAT-Lancet 2.0 Commission
Identifying just transformations that can be a triple-win in terms of access to healthy and sustainable diets, opportunities to benefit from resources and assets and reduced environmental burdens.
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A Vision for Adapted Crops and Soils
Exploring the most nutritious traditional and Indigenous crops in each of the African Union's five subregions, to assess the expected challenges posed to those crops by climate change.
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Lancet Haematology Commission
How to create enabling environments at the global, national and local level to sustain political momentum towards anemia-related Sustainable Development Goal and World Health Assembly targets.
04
Food Systems Countdown Initiative
Developing a systematic, transparent, and replicable method for assessing performance of food systems indicators is necessary to generate actions and decisions on where and how to intervene in food systems to improve planetary health
Capacity Building
Evidence Syntheses
Leading systematic reviews commissioned by Cochrane Collaboration, The Lancet and UN agencies on a variety of topics in planetary health.
Multi-sectoral
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Integrating a One Health approach across the disaster continuum
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Improving universal access to planetary health diets, within planetary boundaries, while advancing justice
Food systems
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Effectiveness of food environments interventions to improve nutritional status of school-aged children and adolescents in low- and middle- income countries
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Landscape review on school food and nutrition policies, programs and interventions in Canada
Health systems
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Integrating nutrition in health systems interventions in conflict-affected settings in low- and middle- income countries
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Pivoting school health and nutrition programs during crises
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Care for small-for-gestational age neonates
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Zinc supplementation in pregnancy
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Efficacy of double-fortified salt
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Evidence map on crises, gender, and nutrition
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Developmental origins of health and disease on nutrition in adolescence
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Effectiveness of universal health, screen time and physical activity interventions in children and adolescents globally
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Prevalence of mental health disorders in children and adolescents globally
Empirical Research
Developing and validating methods, and metrics for monitoring and evaluating food systems, diets and nutrition.
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Exploring the retail food environment in Matiari, Pakistan
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Identifying data gaps in nutrition-specific and nutrition-sensitive policies, programs and interventions in South Asia
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Collaborating with an interdisciplinary and international network of researchers to develop a subnational dashboard of food system indicators (Indonesia, Bangladesh, Nigeria, Pakistan, Kenya, Mozambique)
Capacity Building
Developing tailored technical assistance and capacity development to strengthen individual and institutional capacity in planetary health.
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In-country workshops with International Pediatric Association (Kyrgyzstan, Nigeria, Indonesia, Panama)
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Health facility and community health worker training packages with East Central Southern Africa-Health Community (Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda)
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Communities with a high-burden of stunting with Aga Khan Development Network (Afghanistan, Tajikistan and Pakistan)