Nutrition trials for women and children in east Africa and India

Since 2003, researchers at Boston Children’s Hospital have been undertaking numerous trials in Tanzania in collaboration with colleagues in the Department of Child Health and Pediatrics at MUHAS. These have included randomized trials of nutrition interventions to improve growth, neurodevelopment and gastrointestinal health. Similarly, we have undertaken numerous studies with colleagues in southern India on the topics of maternal health and nutrition, anemia, vitamin B12 status, and health during pregnancy.

These trials have been variously supported by NIH, Gates Foundation, and the World Health Organization and have been published in the New England Journal of Medicine, eBiomedicine, The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, and other top research journals.