RESEARCH | Bianca Carducci

RESEARCH STREAMS

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Explores the key factors influencing diets and nutrition across food, health, water and social systems. It aims to uncover how socio-cultural, economic, and environmental drivers shape dietary patterns and inform strategies for nutrition.

Focuses on the development of indicators and monitoring frameworks, in particular for school-aged children and adolescents, along with developing innovative methods to ensure equitable target-setting across systems that deliver nutrition.

Examines changes needed across systems to improve both human nutrition, environmental sustainability, while ensuring justice. It explores how shifts in policies and programs can create healthier populations while protecting the planet.

Explores best practices for integrating nutrition into system policies and programming, particularly in crises. This includes an integrated health and nutrition intervention model, as well as integrating climate information into health systems to prepare and respond effectively.

METHODOLOGICAL EXPERTISE

Evidence Synthesis

Generating high-quality evidence on nutrition interventions and best practices across the life course

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Empirical and Analytical

Using real-world evidence to identify relationships and develop methods and indicators for food systems, diets and nutrition

Implementation and Capacity Building

Online and in-country capacity building on public health nutrition

Evidence Synthesis

Leading systematic reviews commissioned by Cochrane Collaboration, The Lancet and UN agencies on a variety of topics in planetary health, global health and public health.

Food systems

Impact of climate variability on marginalized food system workers' diets and nutrition in low- and middle-income countries
Improving universal access to planetary health diets, within planetary boundaries, while advancing justice
Effectiveness of food environments interventions to improve nutritional status of school-aged children and adolescents in low- and middle- income countries
School food and nutrition policies, programs and interventions in Canada

Health systems

Integrating nutrition in health systems interventions in conflict-affected settings in low- and middle- income countries
Pivoting school health and nutrition programs during crises
Care for small-for-gestational age neonates
Zinc supplementation in pregnancy
Efficacy of double-fortified salt
Developmental origins of health and disease on nutrition in adolescence
Effectiveness of universal health, screen time and physical activity interventions in children and adolescents globally
Prevalence of mental health disorders in children and adolescents globally

Social protection systems

Effectiveness of school meal programs in conflict-affected settings in low- and middle- income countries

Empirical and Analytical

Developing and validating methods, and metrics for monitoring and evaluating food systems, diets and nutrition.

Exploring the retail food environment in Matiari, Pakistan
Identifying data gaps in nutrition-specific and nutrition-sensitive policies, programs and interventions in South Asia
Developing a systematic, transparent, and replicable method for assessing performance of food systems indicators with the Food Systems Countdown Initiative
Adapting the Food Systems Countdown Initiative to national contexts
Examining various relationships and geographic trends between climate and dietary diversity of women in eight low- and middle- income countries

Implementation and Capacity Building

Contributing to international health policy and practice to integrate nutrition to promote universal health in low- and middle- income countries, particularly during crises.

Online course development
Developing health facility and community health worker training programs (Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania) in collaboration with East, Central, Southern African Health Community blended nutrition workshops in Kyrgyzstan, Nigeria, Indonesia and Panama alongside International Pediatric Association
Hosting blended nutrition workshops in Kyrgyzstan, Nigeria, Indonesia and Panama alongside International Pediatric Association
Examining global, national and local governance and opportunities for anemia reduction
Conducting implementation research in Ethiopia and Indonesia in partnership with local meteorological services, communities and public health nutrition practitioners that aims to tailor climate information services to local needs to ensure that nutrition and health programs are better equipped to strengthen the resilience of climate-vulnerable communities

SELECT PUBLICATIONS

Carducci B, Dominguez G, Fanzo J. Integrating Climate Services into Health Systems for Nutrition Security: A Scoping Review. Environmental Research: Health. 2025.

Carducci B, Guarin J, Karl K, Ziska L, Yang M, Fanzo J, Jägermyer J, Ruane AC, Hoogenboom G, Herrero M, Mencos Contreras E, Kozlowski N and Rosenzweig C. Anticipating Climate Impacts on Nutrition Through Climate-Crop Nutrient Modeling. Nature Climate Change. 2025.

Carducci B, Chen H, Campisi S, and Miliku K. Adolescence: Nutrition, Growth and Developmental Origins of Chronic Disease: Current Evidence, Possible Mechanisms, and Future Research Priorities. npj Metabolic Health and Disease. 2025; 3(40).

Rockström J, Thilsted S, Willett W, Gordon LJ, Herrero M, Hicks CC, Mason-D'Croz D, Rao N, Springmann M, Wright EC, Agustina R, Bajaj S, Bunge AC, Carducci B, Conti C, Covic N, Fanzo J, Forouhi NG, Gibson M, Gu X, Kebreab E, Kremen C, Laila A, Laxminarayan R, Marteau T, Monteiro CA, Norberg A, Njuki J, Oliveira TD, Pan A, Pan W-H, Rivera JA, Robinson JPW, Sundiang M, te Wierik S, van Vuuren D, Vermeulen S, Webb P, et al. EAT-Lancet Commission on Healthy, Sustainable and Just Food Systems. Lancet Planetary Health. 2025.

Carducci B, Benedict R, Corrigan J, Mayala B, Namaste S, Bilotto F, Herrero M, Guo Z, and Fanzo J. Exploring Women's Dietary Diversity Amidst Climate Variability: A Comparative Analysis across Eight Low- and Middle- Income Countries. Environmental Research Letters. 2025; 20: 094005.

Atkinson SH, Suchdev PS, Bode M, Carducci B, Cerami C, Fanzo J, Mwangi MN, Namaste S, Winichagoon P, Leung S, Mutua AM, Abuga KM, Agdeppa IA, Blythe R, Carvalho N, Cepeda-Lopez A, Cross J, de Pee S, Di Ruggiero E, Gentilini U, Gichohi W, Glover-Wright C, Gomes F, Hess S, Holloway-Brown J, Joof F, Karakochuk C, Kassebaum NJ, Larson L, Mettananda S, Muriuki JM, Mwangome M, Ohuma E, Oliver V, Perumal N, Phiri K, Samuel F, Sinharoy S, Tizifa T, Valleriani G, van Zutphen KG, Vasta F, Verhoef H, Wang Y, Yadav K, Yang Z, Young M, Zimmermann MB, Pasricha S-R. Lancet Haematology Commission: Getting back on track to meet global anaemia reduction targets. Lancet Haematology. 2025.

Fanzo J, Carducci B, Louis-Jean J, Herrero M, Karl K, Rozensweig C. Climate change, extreme weather events, food security, and nutrition: Evolving relationships and critical challenges. Annual Review of Nutrition. 2025;45:1-26.

Carducci B, Kidd E, Dominguez G, Oh C, Jain R, Khan A and Bhutta ZA. School Food Environment and Nutrition Policies, Programs and Interventions in Canada: A Systematic Review. Nutrition Reviews. 2024:nuae030.

Carducci B, Dominguez G, Kidd E, Janes K, Owais A and Bhutta ZA. Pivoting School Health and Nutrition Programs During COVID-19 in Low- and Middle- Income Countries: A Scoping Review. Journal of Global Health. Journal of Global Health; 2024;14:05006.

Carducci B, Jagermyer J, Ruane A and Fanzo J. Rising to the Challenge: Producing and Sustaining a Nutrient-Dense and Climate-Resilient Food Basket for All. One Earth. 2023.

Carducci B, Wasan Y, Shakeel A, Hussain A, Baxter J, Rizvi A, Soofi S and Bhutta ZA. Characterizing Retail Food Environments in Peri-Urban Pakistan during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health. 2022; 19(14): 8614.

Vaivada T, Lassi ZS, Irfan O, Salam RS, Das JK, Oh C, Carducci B, Jain R, Als D, Sharma N, Keats EC, Patton GC, Kruk ME, Black RE, and Bhutta ZA. What Can Work and How? An Overview of Evidence-based Interventions and Delivery Strategies to Support Health and Human Development from Before Conception to 20 years. The Lancet. 2022;399(10337):1810 - 1829.

Carducci B, Oh, C., Roth, D.E. et al. Gaps and Priorities in Assessment of Food Environments for Children and Adolescents in Low- and Middle-Income Countries. Nature Food. 2021;2: 396–403.

Carducci B, Keats EC, Ruel M, Haddad L, Osendarp S and Bhutta ZA. Food Systems, Diets and Nutrition in the Wake of COVID-19. Nature Food. 2021;2: 68-70.

Carducci B, Oh C, and Bhutta ZA. Addressing Hidden Hunger in School-aged Children and Adolescents within the Context of the Food System. In Biesalski HK (ed): Hidden Hunger and the Transformation of Food Systems. How to Combat the Double Burden of Malnutrition? World Rev Nutr Diet. Basel, Karger, 2020, vol 121.

Carducci B, Oh C, Keats EC, Roth D, Bhutta ZA. Effect of Food Environment Interventions on Diet-related Health Outcomes in School-age Children and Adolescents in Low- and Middle- Income Countries. Current Developments in Nutrition. 2020; 4(7):nzaa098.