Global Nutrition

Barriers and Opportunities for Improving Diets and Food Choice (Oral 37)

Chair(s)

• 

  Aryeh Stein, PhD

  Professor
  Emory University
  Atlanta, Georgia

Co-Chair(s)

• SC

  Shruthi Cyriac

  Doctoral Student
  Emory University
  Atlanta, Georgia

Speaker(s)

• DH

  Derek Headey

  Senior Research Fellow
  International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
  Washington, District of Columbia
• SC

  Shruthi Cyriac

  Doctoral Student
  Emory University
  Atlanta, Georgia
• 

  Yan Bai, MIB

  PhD Candidate
  Friedman School of Nutrition at Tufts University
  Medford, Massachusetts
• 

  Ilana Cliffer, MPH

  Field Research Director
  Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Tufts University
  Boston, Massachusetts
• NG

  Nilupa Gunaratna, MS, PhD

  Assistant Professor
  Purdue University
  West Lafayette, Indiana
• SS

  Samuel Scott

  Associate Research Fellow
  International Food Policy Research Institute
  Delhi, Delhi, India
• JA

  Johanna Andrews Trevino

  Tufts University
  Boston, Massachusetts
• PN

  Phuong Nguyen

  Research Fellow
  International Food Policy Research Institute
  Washington, District of Columbia

Presentations:

• 10:30 AM - 10:45 AM

  The Relative Prices of Healthy and Unhealthy Calories in 177 Countries and their Associations with Stunting and Obesity
• 10:45 AM - 11:00 AM

  Nutritionally adequate diets are unaffordable for poor households in western Kenya: A ‘Cost of the Diet’ Analysis
• 11:00 AM - 11:15 AM

  Seasonality in the Cost of Nutritious Diets versus Caloric Adequacy in Tanzania
• 11:15 AM - 11:30 AM

  Comparative Effectiveness and Cost-Effectiveness of Four Supplementary Foods in the Prevention of Stunting and Wasting in children 6-23 months in Burkina Faso
• 11:30 AM - 11:45 AM

  Potential for Biofortified Maize to Improve Quality Protein Intakes among Young Rural Ethiopian Children
• 11:45 AM - 12:00 PM

  Identifying sociodemographic, programmatic, and dietary drivers of anemia reduction in pregnant Indian women over 10 years
• 12:00 PM - 12:15 PM

  Relationship between maize and groundnut consumption and aflatoxin levels in Nepalese pregnant women eating a rice-dominated diet
• 12:15 PM - 12:30 PM

  Progress and inequalities in infant and young child feeding practices in India between 2006-2016