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Home » Research pillars » Transforming leadership » Leadership and capacity

Postgraduate education in nutrition in south Asia

January 8, 2014 -

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A Transform Nutrition journal article is now out  in the BMC Medical Education Postgraduate education in nutrition in south Asia: a huge mismatch between investments and needs. Led by researchers at the Public Health Foundation of India, this paper presents a regional situation analysis of master’s level academic initiatives in nutrition with a special focus on the type of programme we think is most likely to be helpful in addressing undernutrition at the population level: Public Health Nutrition (PHN). See also the Guardian blog.

Learning about Champions

August 16, 2013 -

Transforming leadership

Transform Nutrition are undertaking research to (a) identify individuals who have been or could be influential in contributing to policy changes that can effectively reduce undernutrition, and (b) explore the attributes and characteristics of these individuals. This informal paper Learning about Champions – Individuals Catalysing Social Change by Elise Wach and Sara Wolcott presents some of our thinking and preliminary findings to date.

Nutrition champions 2013 shortlist

August 6, 2013 - Leave a Comment

The following 14 candidates have been shortlisted by our high level panel from 53 eligible nominations received. These champions reflect the broad experience and expertise that, together, will help to transform nutrition—working across countries and across sectors.

Alvaro Castillo Monge – Guatemala

Anh Vu Nguyen – Vietnam

Ann Wawira Njiru – Kenya

Banda Ndiaye – Sahelian countries

Dr. Eunice Bonsi – Ghana

Dr. Harouna Souley – Niger

Dr. Maria Andrade – Mozambique

Dr. Mohammad Ayub – Pakistan

Esther Kimani – Kenya

Luis Enrique Monterroso – Guatemala

Masa Kogure – Japan

Nimish Kumari – India

Raj Kumar Pokharel – Nepal

Terry Wefwafwa – Kenya

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Our research questions

1. What are the features of an enabling environment for nutrition?
2. How can we assess, monitor and strengthen leadership and capacity?
3. How can we assess, monitor and strengthen accountability and responsiveness?
Existing research has highlighted the need to build sustained political commitment and capacity at a global and country level, for direct and indirect interventions to be effective. Such enabling environments are fundamental to transforming thinking and action on undernutrition, and reversing decades of neglect. Transform Nutrition have highlighted and reviewed a neglected area of research within nutrition – the wider policy and political processes which underpin nutrition’s basic determinants and which affect the capacity to act at basic, underlying and immediate levels. Foundational reviews published in the Lancet and World Development have been accompanied by innovative new research reviewing: 1) the role of governance amongst other cross-country predictors of nutrition outcomes;and the role of 2) leadership and 3) capacity in country constraints and success. Further foundational work has contributed to the methodological development of new methods of assessing country-wide or sub-national levels of commitment ; and real time monitoring of nutrition outcomes via mobile phones.

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