Community based nutrition evaluation in hard-to-sample populations (newcomers, refugees, nomads, displaced and resettled groups)

Daniel Sellen

Professor

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts and Science
• Department
  • Anthropology

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

Office: N/A
Languages: English
Website
Email: dan.sellen@utoronto.ca
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