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
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HIV
Medicine & Life Sciences
Pica
Medicine & Life Sciences
Food Supply
Medicine & Life Sciences
Tanzania
Medicine & Life Sciences
Breast Feeding
Medicine & Life Sciences
Kenya
Medicine & Life Sciences
Pregnant Women
Medicine & Life Sciences
Mothers
Medicine & Life Sciences
Network
Recent external collaboration on country level. Dive into details by clicking on the dots.
Grants 2016 2023
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
Health consequences of water insecurity for HIV-infected mothers & their infants
National Institute of Mental Health
7/1/16 → 1/31/19
Project: Research project
Mothers
HIV
Water
Health
Research
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
2
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
Farming for change: developing a participatory curriculum on agroecology, nutrition, climate change and social equity in Malawi and Tanzania
Bezner Kerr, R., Young, S. L., Young, C., Santoso, M. V., Magalasi, M., Entz, M., Lupafya, E., Dakishoni, L., Morrone, V., Wolfe, D. & Snapp, S. S., Jan 1 2019, In : Agriculture and Human Values.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
agroecology
Malawi
curriculum
Tanzania
education
Geophagy among nonhuman primates: A systematic review of current knowledge and suggestions for future directions
Pebsworth, P. A., Huffman, M. A., Lambert, J. E. & Young, S. L., Jan 1 2019, In : American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 168, p. 164-194 31 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article
Primates
conservation
Minerals
Strepsirhini
Geography
HIV infection and increased food insecurity are associated with adverse body composition changes among pregnant and lactating Kenyan women
Widen, E. M., Tsai, I., Collins, S. M., Wekesa, P., China, J., Krumdieck, N., Miller, J. D., Weiser, S. D., Onono, M. & Young, S. L., Mar 1 2019, In : European Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 73, 3, p. 474-482 9 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Food Supply
Body Composition
HIV Infections
Arm
Fats