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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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Grants
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A New Way to Think About Water: Household Water Insecurity
Carnegie Corporation of New York
8/1/19 → 7/31/21
Project: Research project
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Monitoring human well - being after natural infrastructure installation
7/1/19 → 8/31/21
Project: Research project
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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
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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
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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
Research Output
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Hydration in relation to water insecurity, heat index, and lactation status in two small-scale populations in hot-humid and hot-arid environments
Bethancourt, H. J., Swanson, Z. S., Nzunza, R., Huanca, T., Conde, E., Kenney, W. L., Young, S. L., Ndiema, E., Braun, D., Pontzer, H. & Rosinger, A. Y., Jan 1 2021, In: American Journal of Human Biology. 33, 1, e23447.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
4 Scopus citations -
Selecting between iron-rich and clay-rich soils: a geophagy field experiment with black-and-white colobus monkeys in the Budongo Forest Reserve, Uganda
Pebsworth, P. A., Gruber, T., Miller, J. D., Zuberbühler, K. & Young, S. L., Jan 2021, In: Primates. 62, 1, p. 133-142 10 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Anemia and Micronutrient Status during Pregnancy, and Their Associations with Obstetric and Infant Outcomes among HIV-Infected Ugandan Women Receiving Antiretroviral Therapy
Finkelstein, J. L., Herman, H. S., Plenty, A., Mehta, S., Natureeba, P., Clark, T. D., Kamya, M. R., Kamya, M. R., Ruel, T., Charlebois, E. D., Charlebois, E. D., Cohan, D., Havlir, D., Young, S. L. & Young, S. L., Apr 29 2020, In: Current Developments in Nutrition. 4, 5, nzaa075.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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A primer on emerging field-deployable synthetic biology tools for global water quality monitoring
Thavarajah, W., Verosloff, M. S., Jung, J. K., Alam, K. K., Miller, J. D., Jewett, M. C., Young, S. L. & Lucks, J. B., Jan 1 2020, In: npj Clean Water. 3, 1, 18.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review
Open Access9 Scopus citations -
Author Correction: Water and sanitation for all in a pandemic (Nature Sustainability, (2020), 3, 10, (773-775), 10.1038/s41893-020-0593-7)
Hannah, D. M., Lynch, I., Mao, F., Miller, J. D., Young, S. L. & Krause, S., Dec 2020, In: Nature Sustainability. 3, 12, p. 1068 1 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Comment/debate › peer-review
Open Access