RESEARCH STREAMS
DRIVERS
This stream 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.
MEASUREMENT
This research stream 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.
TRANSFORMATIONS
This stream 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.
CONVERGENCE
This stream explores best practices for integrating nutrition into system policies and programming, particularly in crises. This includes integrated health and nutrition intervention model, as well as integrating climate information to prepare and respond.
Implementation and Capacity Building
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
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Improving universal access to planetary health diets, within planetary boundaries, while advancing justice
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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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School food and nutrition policies, programs and interventions in Canada
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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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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 and Analytical
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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Developing a systematic, transparent, and replicable method for assessing performance of food systems indicators with the Food Systems Countdown Initiative
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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.
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Online course development
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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
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Hosting blended nutrition workshops in Kyrgyzstan, Nigeria, Indonesia and Panama alongside International Pediatric Association
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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
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SELECT PUBLICATIONS
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 (accepted)
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.
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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.​
Rockstrom J., Thilsted S., Willett W., Gordon L., Herrero M., Agustina R., Covic N., Forouhi N.G., Hicks C., Fano J., Kebreab E., Kremen C., Laxminarayan R., Marteau T., Monteiro C., Njuki J., Rivera J.A., Springmann M., Pan A., Pan W.H., Rao N., van Vuuren D., Vermeulen S., Webb P., Carducci B., Conti C., D’Croz D.M., Milutinovic S., DeClerck F. EAT-Lancet 2.0: Securing a Just Transformation to Healthy, Environmentally Sustainable Diets for All. Lancet Planetary Health. 2023;402(10399):352-54.
Kalbarczyk A, Aberman N-L, van Asperen BSM, Morgan R, Bhutta Z, Carducci B, Heidkamp R, Osendarp S, Kumar N, Lartey A, Malapit H, Quisumbing A, and Fabrizio C. COVID-19, Nutrition, and Gender: An Evidence-informed Approach to Gender-Responsive Policies and Programs. Soc Sci Med. 2022;312:115364.
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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.
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Oh C, Carducci B, Vaivada T and Bhutta ZA. Digital Interventions for Universal Health Promotion in Children and Adolescents: A Systematic Review. Pediatrics. 2022; 149 (Supplement 6): e2021053852H.
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.
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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.