Grants per year
Personal profile
Research Interests
Focus is on reduction of maternal and child-undernutrition in the first 1000 days, especially in low-resource settings. Methodologically, draws on her training in medical anthropology, international nutrition, and HIV to take a biocultural approach to understanding how mothers in low-resource settings cope to preserve their health and that of their families.
Education/Academic qualification
PhD, Cornell University
… → 2008
Research interests
- Food insecurity
- Household water insecurity
- Pica
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HIV
Medicine & Life Sciences
Pica
Medicine & Life Sciences
Food Supply
Medicine & Life Sciences
Kenya
Medicine & Life Sciences
Tanzania
Medicine & Life Sciences
Breast Feeding
Medicine & Life Sciences
Pregnant Women
Medicine & Life Sciences
Mothers
Medicine & Life Sciences
Network
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Grants 2016 2023
Global Security Act: Policy Analysis and Measurement
Rutgers University, the State University of New Jersey, Agency for International Development
3/1/19 → 2/27/21
Project: Research project
act
food
Convergence: RAISE: Systems Approaches for Vulnerability Evaluation and Urban Resilience (SAVEUR)
Horton, D. E., Packman, A. & Young, S. L.
9/15/18 → 8/31/21
Project: Research project
vulnerability
infrastructure
weather
flooding
prediction
RCN: Building a Community of Practice for Household Water Insecurity Research
Texas A&M University System, National Science Foundation
7/1/18 → 6/30/23
Project: Research project
Communication
Peer Review
Manuscripts
Water
Research
A novel tool for the cross-cultural assessment of household-level water insecurity: scale refinement, validation, and manual development
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Department for International Development
12/5/16 → 3/31/19
Project: Research project
Water
Food Supply
Health
Tajikistan
Guatemala
Health Consequences of Food & Nutrition Insecurity for HIV+ Women & Their Infants
National Institute of Mental Health
8/1/16 → 5/31/18
Project: Research project
Food Supply
HIV
Health
Mothers
Pregnant Women
Research Output 2005 2019
Adaptation and psychometric evaluation of the breastfeeding self-efficacy scale to assess exclusive breastfeeding
Boateng, G. O., Martin, S. L., Tuthill, E. L., Collins, S. M., Dennis, C. L., Natamba, B. K. & Young, S. L., Feb 18 2019, In : BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth. 19, 1, 73.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Open Access
Self Efficacy
Breast Feeding
Psychometrics
Postpartum Period
Uganda
A review of transactional sex for natural resources: Under-researched, overstated, or unique to fishing economies?
Fiorella, K. J., Desai, P., Miller, J. D., Okeyo, N. O. & Young, S. L., Jan 1 2019, In : Global Public Health.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Fishes
Food Supply
Natural Resources
Vulnerable Populations
Sexually Transmitted Diseases
1
Citation
(Scopus)
A systematic review of the human health and social well-being outcomes of green infrastructure for stormwater and flood management
Venkataramanan, V., Packman, A., Peters, D. R., Lopez, D., McCuskey, D. J., McDonald, R. I., Miller, W. M. & Young, S. L., Sep 15 2019, In : Journal of Environmental Management. 246, p. 868-880 13 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article
stormwater
infrastructure
Health
Combined sewers
Economics
Characteristics of pica behavior among mothers around lake victoria, Kenya: A cross-sectional study
Chung, E. O., Mattah, B., Hickey, M. D., Salmen, C. R., Milner, E. M., Bukusi, E. A., Brashares, J. S., Young, S. L., Fernald, L. C. H. & Fiorella, K. J., Jul 2 2019, In : International journal of environmental research and public health. 16, 14, 2510.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Open Access
Pica
Kenya
Lakes
Cross-Sectional Studies
Mothers
4
Citations
(Scopus)
Development and validation protocol for an instrument to measure household water insecurity across cultures and ecologies: The Household Water InSecurity Experiences (HWISE) Scale
Young, S. L., Collins, S. M., Boateng, G. O., Neilands, T. B., Jamaluddine, Z., Miller, J. D., Brewis, A. A., Frongillo, E. A., Jepson, W. E., Melgar-Quiñonez, H., Schuster, R. C., Stoler, J. B. & Wutich, A., Jan 1 2019, In : BMJ open. 9, 1, e023558.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Ecology
Water
Food Supply
Reproducibility of Results
Ethics