selected publications
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article
- Can Children Catch up from the Consequences of Undernourishment? Evidence from Child Linear Growth, Developmental Epigenetics, and Brain and Neurocognitive Development.. Advances in Nutrition. 11:1032-1041. 2020
- Coherence Among Sectors and Stakeholders Differentiates Districts in Rwanda That Did and Did Not Improve Child Stunting 2020
- Health Systems Strengthening Efforts Help to Improve the Delivery of Maternal Nutrition Interventions in Antenatal Care in Uttar Pradesh (UP), India but Gaps Remain 2020
- Strengthening Nutrition Interventions in Antenatal Care Services Had Modest Impacts on Diet Diversity, Micronutrient Intake, and Breastfeeding in Uttar Pradesh, India 2020
- Effect of Differences in Month and Location of Measurement in Estimating Prevalence and Trend of Wasting and Stunting in India in 2005-2006 and 2015-2016.. CURRENT DEVELOPMENTS IN NUTRITION. 4. 2020
- Nutrition Intervention Using Behavioral Change Communication without Additional Material Inputs Increased Expenditures on Key Food Groups in Bangladesh.. Journal of Nutrition. 150:1284-1290. 2020
- Early breastfeeding practices contribute to exclusive breastfeeding in Bangladesh, Vietnam and Ethiopia.. Maternal and Child Nutrition. 16. 2020
- Associations of maternal resources with care behaviours differ by resource and behaviour.. Maternal and Child Nutrition. 16. 2020
- Different Combinations of Behavior Change Interventions and Frequencies of Interpersonal Contacts Are Associated with Infant and Young Child Feeding Practices in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, and Vietnam.. CURRENT DEVELOPMENTS IN NUTRITION. 4. 2020
- Information Diffusion and Social Norms Are Associated with Infant and Young Child Feeding Practices in Bangladesh.. Journal of Nutrition. 149:2034-2045. 2019
- Behavior Change Interventions Delivered through Interpersonal Communication, Agricultural Activities, Community Mobilization, and Mass Media Increase Complementary Feeding Practices and Reduce Child Stunting in Ethiopia. Journal of Nutrition. 149:1470-1481. 2019
- Intervention Design Elements Are Associated with Frontline Health Workers’ Performance to Deliver Infant and Young Child Nutrition Services in Bangladesh and Vietnam. CURRENT DEVELOPMENTS IN NUTRITION. 3. 2019
- Double Burden of Malnutrition: The Role of Framing in Development of Political Priority in the Context of Rising Diet-related Non-communicable Diseases in Tamil Nadu, India (P22-005-19) 2019
- Examining the Exposure, Timing, and Frequency of Interpersonal Communication Contacts to Improve Infant and Young Child Feeding in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, and Vietnam (P10-138-19) 2019
- Monthly Variation in Velocities of Weight and Length Growth in Infants Under Six Months of Age in Rural Uttar Pradesh, India (P10-008-19) 2019
- Paths Linking Maternal Resources for Care to Child Growth and Early Childhood Development in Bangladesh (P11-125-19) 2019
- Stories of Change: How Rwanda Created an Enabling Environment for Reducing Malnutrition (P22-011-19) 2019
- Appropriate Use of Linear Growth Measures to Assess Impact of Interventions on Child Development and Catch-Up Growth.. Advances in Nutrition. 10:372-379. 2019
- Nutrition Interventions Integrated into an Existing Maternal, Neonatal, and Child Health Program Reduce Food Insecurity Among Recently Delivered and Pregnant Women in Bangladesh.. Journal of Nutrition. 149:159-166. 2019
- Importance of coverage and quality for impact of nutrition interventions delivered through an existing health programme in Bangladesh.. Maternal and Child Nutrition. 14. 2018
- Large-Scale Social and Behavior Change Communication Interventions Have Sustained Impacts on Infant and Young Child Feeding Knowledge and Practices: Results of a 2-Year Follow-Up Study in Bangladesh. Journal of Nutrition. 148:1605-1614. 2018
- Engagement of Husbands in a Maternal Nutrition Program Substantially Contributed to Greater Intake of Micronutrient Supplements and Dietary Diversity during Pregnancy: Results of a Cluster-Randomized Program Evaluation in Bangladesh.. Journal of Nutrition. 148:1352-1363. 2018
- Dietary Diversity Predicts the Adequacy of Micronutrient Intake in Pregnant Adolescent Girls and Women in Bangladesh, but Use of the 5-Group Cutoff Poorly Identifies Individuals with Inadequate Intake.. Journal of Nutrition. 148:790-797. 2018
- 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.. Journal of Nutrition. 147:2326-2337. 2017
- Changes in the policy environment for infant and young child feeding in Vietnam, Bangladesh, and Ethiopia, and the role of targeted advocacy. BMC Public Health. 17:492. 2017
- Social Franchising and a Nationwide Mass Media Campaign Increased the Prevalence of Adequate Complementary Feeding in Vietnam: A Cluster-Randomized Program Evaluation. Journal of Nutrition. 147:670-679. 2017
- Large-Scale Behavior-Change Initiative for Infant and Young Child Feeding Advanced Language and Motor Development in a Cluster-Randomized Program Evaluation in Bangladesh.. Journal of Nutrition. 147:256-263. 2017
- Changes in Underlying Determinants Explain Rapid Increases in Child Linear Growth in Alive & Thrive Study Areas between 2010 and 2014 in Bangladesh and Vietnam.. Journal of Nutrition. 147:462-469. 2017
- The Association of a Large-Scale Television Campaign With Exclusive Breastfeeding Prevalence in Vietnam.. American Journal of Public Health. 107:312-318. 2017
- Progress in improving provincial plans for nutrition through targeted technical assistance and local advocacy in Vietnam. Health Policy and Planning. 31:1333-1341. 2016
- 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. PLOS Medicine. 13. 2016
- Exposure to Large-Scale Social and Behavior Change Communication Interventions Is Associated with Improvements in Infant and Young Child Feeding Practices in Ethiopia.. PLOS ONE. 11. 2016
- Exposure to mass media and interpersonal counseling has additive effects on exclusive breastfeeding and its psychosocial determinants among Vietnamese mothers.. Maternal and Child Nutrition. 12:713-725. 2016
- 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. Journal of Nutrition. 146:2075-2084. 2016
- Infant and young child feeding practices differ by ethnicity of Vietnamese mothers.. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth. 16:214. 2016
- Participating in a Food-Assisted Maternal and Child Nutrition and Health Program in Rural Guatemala Alters Household Dietary Choices.. Journal of Nutrition. 146:1593-1600. 2016
- Supply- and Demand-Side Factors Influencing Utilization of Infant and Young Child Feeding Counselling Services in Viet Nam. FASEB JOURNAL. 11. 2016
- A large-scale behavior change initiative to improve infant and young child feeding had positive impact on language and motor development in Bangladesh 2016
- Using height-for-age differences (HAD) instead of height-for-age z-scores (HAZ) for the meaningful measurement of population-level catch-up in linear growth in children less than 5 years of age. BMC Pediatrics. 15:145-145. 2015
- Measuring the Food Access Dimension of Food Security A Critical Review and Mapping of Indicators. Food and Nutrition Bulletin. 36:167-195. 2015
- Additive Effects of Interpersonal Counseling and Mass Media on Psychosocial Determinants of Exclusive Breastfeeding among Vietnamese Mothers. FASEB JOURNAL. 29. 2015
- Improvement in Provincial Plans for Nutrition through Targeted Technical Assistance and Local Advocacy in Vietnam. FASEB JOURNAL. 29. 2015
- Social and Behavioral Change Interventions Delivered at Scale Have Large Impacts on Infant and Young Child Feeding (IYCF) Practices in Bangladesh. FASEB JOURNAL. 29. 2015
- What's up with catch‐up? No evidence of population‐level catch‐up growth in children under 5 years of age when using height‐for‐age difference (HAD) instead of height‐for‐age z‐scores (HAZ). The FASEB Journal. 29. 2015
- Using height-for-age difference instead of height-for-age Z-scores for the meaningful measurement of catch-up growth in children less than 5 years of age 2015
- What's up with catch-up?, No evidence of population-level catch-up growth in children under 5 years of age when using height-for-age difference (HAD) instead of height-for-age z-scores (HAZ) 2015
- Reply to Victora et al.. Journal of Nutrition. 144:2093-2093. 2014
- Gaps between Breastfeeding Awareness and Practices in Vietnamese Mothers Result from Inadequate Support in Health Facilities and Social Norms. Journal of Nutrition. 144:1811-1817. 2014
- Linear Growth Deficit Continues to Accumulate beyond the First 1000 Days in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Global Evidence from 51 National Surveys. Journal of Nutrition. 144:1460-1466. 2014
- Organizational factors, planning capacity, and integration challenges constrain provincial planning processes for nutrition in decentralizing Vietnam. Food and Nutrition Bulletin. 35:382-391. 2014
- A Program Impact Pathway Analysis Identifies Critical Steps in the Implementation and Utilization of a Behavior Change Communication Intervention Promoting Infant and Child Feeding Practices in Bangladesh. Journal of Nutrition. 143:2029-2037. 2013
- Maternal and Child Dietary Diversity Are Associated in Bangladesh, Vietnam, and Ethiopia. Journal of Nutrition. 143:1176-1183. 2013
- Indicators of Family Care for Development for Use in Multicountry Surveys. Journal of Health Population and Nutrition. 30:472-486. 2013
- Effects of prenatal micronutrient and early food supplementation on maternal hemoglobin, birth weight, and infant mortality among children in Bangladesh, The MINIMat randomized trial. JAMA-JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION. vol. 307. 2012
- Indicators of Family Care for Development for Use in Multicountry Surveys. Journal of Health Population and Nutrition. 30:472-486. 2012
- Nutrition agenda setting, policy formulation and implementation: lessons from the Mainstreaming Nutrition Initiative. Health Policy and Planning. 27:19-31. 2012
- Prospective analysis of the development of the national nutrition agenda in Vietnam from 2006 to 2008. Health Policy and Planning. 27:32-41. 2012
- Assessment of epidemiologic, operational, and sociopolitical domains for mainstreaming nutrition.. Food and Nutrition Bulletin. 32:S105-S114. 2011
- The nutrition policy process, The role of strategic capacity in advancing national nutrition agendas 2011
- The nutrition policy process: The role of strategic capacity in advancing national nutrition agendas. Food and Nutrition Bulletin. 32:S59-S69. 2011
- Household food security is associated with early childhood language development: results from a longitudinal study in rural Bangladesh. Child Care Health and Development. 36:309-316. 2010
- Food insecurity and HIV/AIDS, Current knowledge, gaps, and research priorities. Current HIV/AIDS Reports. vol. 6. 2009
- Use of the new World Health Organization child growth standards to describe longitudinal growth of breasfed rural Bangladeshi infants and young children 2009
- "Shared correct knowledge": a measure to assess the influence of community health workers on mothers' knowledge acquisition in a behavior change communication program in rural Haiti. The FASEB Journal. 21. 2007
- Constraints on the delivery animal-source foods to infants and young children, Case studies from five countries 2007
- Constraints on the delivery of animal-source foods to infants and young children: Case studies from five countries. Food and Nutrition Bulletin. 28:215-229. 2007
- Food insecurity: an overwhelming constraint for child dietary diversity and growth in Haiti 2004
- Hungry and stressed: Household food insecurity is associated with caregiver physical and mental wellbeing in rural Haiti. FASEB JOURNAL. 18:A488-A489. 2004
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chapter
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document
- Context Matters: Insights from Two Randomized Evaluations of Behavior Change Interventions on Factors Influencing Infant and Young Child Feeding Practices in Bangladesh and Vietnam. FASEB JOURNAL. 2017
- Agricultural interventions and nutrition: Lessons from the past and new evidence 2011
- Household food security is associated with growth of infants and young children in rural Bangladesh 2009
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editorial article
- Lessons from using cluster-randomized evaluations to build evidence on large-scale nutrition behavior change interventions. World Development. 127:104816. 2020
- Can integrated interventions create the conditions that support caregiving for better child growth. LANCET GLOBAL HEALTH. 6:E236-E237. 2018
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review
- Aligning evidence generation and use across health, development, and environment. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability. 81-93. 2019
- Perspective: What Does Stunting Really Mean? A Critical Review of the Evidence. Advances in Nutrition. 196-204. 2019