Area of research
Parasitology · Nutrition and Dietetics
Research interest
Research focused on Psychological intervention and Poverty, with related work in Malnutrition, Sanitation, Neglected tropical diseases. Notable publications include 'Investment in child and adolescent health and development: key messages from Disease Control Priorities , 3rd Edition', 'Universal health coverage and intersectoral action for health: key messages from Disease Control Priorities, 3rd edition', and 'The role of water, sanitation and hygiene interventions in reducing soil-transmitted helminths: interpreting the evidence and identifying next steps'.
Current status of school vision screening—rationale, models, impact and challenges: a review
The health, environmental, and cost implications of providing healthy and sustainable school meals for every child by 2030: a global modelling study
Feasibility of interrupting the transmission of soil-transmitted helminths: the DeWorm3 community cluster-randomised controlled trial in Benin, India, and Malawi
Planet-friendly school meals: opportunities to improve children's health and leverage change in food systems
School Meals Are Evolving: Has the Evidence Kept Up?
Surgery and the first 8000 days of life: a review
The SABER School Feeding policy tool: a 10-year analysis of its use by countries in developing policies for their national school meals programs
Universal free school meals: the future of school meal programmes?
Routine Pediatric Surgical Emergencies: Incidence, Morbidity, and Mortality During the 1st 8000 Days of Life—A Narrative Review
Developing a Global Approach for Measurement of Adolescent Well-Being
Surgically Correctable Congenital Anomalies: Reducing Morbidity and Mortality in the First 8000 Days of Life
A positive consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic: how the counterfactual experience of school closures is accelerating a multisectoral response to the treatment of neglected tropical diseases
Low Prevalence of Soil-Transmitted Helminth Infections among Children in the States of Chhattisgarh and Himachal Pradesh, India, 2018
Breaking down silos between health and education to improve adolescent wellbeing
Estimates of Treatable Deaths Within the First 20 Years of Life from Scaling Up Surgical Care at First‐Level Hospitals in Low‐ and Middle‐Income Countries
A coordinated response to the needs of the learner: How deworming and school meals together will contribute to the global recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic
Establishing Global School Feeding Program Targets: How Many Poor Children Globally Should Be Prioritized, and What Would Be the Cost of Implementation?
World Gastroenterology Organisation Global Guidelines
The Role of Health in Education and Human Capital: Why an Integrated Approach to School Health Could Make a Difference in the Futures of Schoolchildren in Low-Income Countries
Programmatic implications of the TUMIKIA trial on community-wide treatment for soil-transmitted helminths: further health economic analyses needed before a change in policy
The role of water, sanitation and hygiene interventions in reducing soil-transmitted helminths: interpreting the evidence and identifying next steps
More medicines alone cannot ensure the treatment of neglected tropical diseases
Economic evaluations of onchocerciasis interventions: a systematic review and research needs
Mass deworming for improving health and cognition of children in endemic helminth areas: A systematic review and individual participant data network meta‐analysis
Deworming children for soil-transmitted helminths in low and middle-income countries: systematic review and individual participant data network meta-analysis
100 Years of Mass Deworming Programmes: A Policy Perspective From the World Bank's Disease Control Priorities Analyses
The Global Partnership for Education: forging a stronger partnership between health and education sectors to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals
Investment in child and adolescent health and development: key messages from Disease Control Priorities , 3rd Edition
Universal health coverage and intersectoral action for health: key messages from Disease Control Priorities, 3rd edition
Maternal-related deaths and impoverishment among adolescent girls in India and Niger: findings from a modelling study