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Infant and young child feeding practices

Daniel Sellen

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • > 30 years international research leadership in community-based, nutrition-sensitive project design, management, analysis and
  • Africa, South and Central America
  • Application of human ecology and evolutionary medical anthropology to improve global public health
  • Behavioral ecology
  • Central America (Guatemala, Panama)
  • Community based nutrition evaluation in hard-to-sample populations (newcomers, refugees, nomads, displaced and resettled groups)
  • Europe ( United Kingdom, Norway)
  • Evolutionary Anthropology
  • Global health
  • Human ecology
  • Human evolution
  • Human nutrition
  • Implementation science (randomized intervention trials and process evaluation) to test innovations to deliver support for maternal
  • Infant and young child feeding practices
  • Infant feeding
  • Medical Anthropology
  • North America (Canada, United States of America, Mexico)
  • Nutrition
  • Nutrition information systems for monitoring, evaluation and design of nutrition and food security interventions
  • Operationalizing gender transformation in nutrition programming
  • South Asia (Bangladesh, India)
  • Structural innovation to protect, promote and support infant and young child feeding (IYCF), including breastfeeding, complementary
  • Sub-Saharan Africa (esp. Kenya, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Ghana, South Africa, Lesotho)
  • Tanzania, Kenya, Ghana, Ethiopia, Uganda, The Gambia, Nigeria, Lesotho, Guatemala, Mexico, Bangladesh, India, UK, USA, Canada

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Languages: English
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Email: dan.sellen@utoronto.ca
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