Purnima Menon

Datos Biográficos

ID3933647
NOMBREPurnima Menon
NOMBRESPurnima
APELLIDOMenon
FIRMAMENON P
AFILIACIONESInternational Food Policy Research Institute
VERIFICADONo
TOTAL DE OBRAS52
TOTAL DE CITAS97
TOTAL COMO AUTOR52
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN1996
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2026
ÍNDICE H3

  • Global assessment of childhood growth monitoring

    Open AccessAnnariina Koivu, Ulla Ashorn et al.ARTICLEJournal of Global Health2026

    Background: Monitoring children's growth is crucial in paediatric care for early identification of health issues, with the World Health Organization (WHO) advocating for its practice throughout childhood. However, the focus and implementation of growth monitoring vary globally, reflecting different health priorities and practices. Methods: We conducted a global, cross-sectional, questionnaire-based survey, targeted at representatives of the minis…

  • From promises to action

    Open AccessChristina Zorbas, Donald Resnick et al.ARTICLEFood Policy2025Referencias: 3

  • Assessing progress on the coverage of interventions in the first 1000 days in India

    Open AccessRasmi Avula, Phuong H Nguyen et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2024

    BACKGROUND: High coverage of nutrition-specific interventions is critical to meet global nutrition targets, and it is imperative to understand how to attain it. We examined trends and inequalities in the coverage of interventions in India and the role of the National Nutrition Mission (NNM) in achieving improvements. METHODS: We conducted trends and equity analysis of 30 interventions using two rounds of National Family Health Survey data (2015-2…

  • Disruptions and adaptations of an urban nutrition intervention delivering essential services for women and children during a major health system crisis in Dhaka, Bangladesh

    Open AccessJessica Escobar‐DeMarco, Phuong H Nguyen et al.ARTICLEMaternal and Child Nutrition2024

    Systematic crises may disrupt well-designed nutrition interventions. Continuing services requires understanding the intervention paths that have been disrupted and adapting as crises permit. Alive & Thrive developed an intervention to integrate nutrition services into urban antenatal care services in Dhaka, which started at the onset of COVID-19 and encountered extraordinary disruption of services. We investigated the disruptions and adaptations …

  • Women improving nutrition through self-help groups in India

    Open AccessNeha Kumar, Kalyani Raghunathan et al.ARTICLEFood Policy2024Referencias: 6

    Women's self-help groups (SHGs) are an important platform for reaching poor women in India. Despite SHGs' women-focused programming, evidence of the impact of SHG-based interventions on nutrition outcomes is limited, and most evaluations of nutrition interventions have not examined intermediate outcomes along the impact pathways or outcomes for women themselves. This paper evaluates the effectiveness of an integrated agriculture-nutrition interve…

  • Breastfeeding

    Open AccessRafael Pérez-Escamilla, Cecilia Tomori et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2023

    In this Series paper, we examine how mother and baby attributes at the individual level interact with breastfeeding determinants at other levels, how these interactions drive breastfeeding outcomes, and what policies and interventions are necessary to achieve optimal breastfeeding. About one in three neonates in low-income and middle-income countries receive prelacteal feeds, and only one in two neonates are put to the breast within the first hou…

  • Scale and Sustainability

    Open AccessKalyani Raghunathan, Neha Kumar et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Development Studies2023

    Microfinance groups are a prominent source of small-scale rural credit in many developing countries. In India, evidence of the impact of the now ubiquitous women-only savings and credit self-help groups (SHGs) on household consumption and asset accumulation is inconclusive and based on small-scale interventions. Further, little is known about the sustainability of impacts at scale. We use panel data on close to 2500 households from five states in…

  • Assessing the hidden burden and costs of Covid-19 pandemic in South Asia

    Open AccessAatekah Owais, Arjumand Rizvi et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2023

    The COVID-19 pandemic has disproportionately affected vulnerable populations. With its intensity expected to be cyclical over the foreseeable future, and much of the impact estimates still modeled, it is imperative that we accurately assess the impact to date, to help with the process of targeted rebuilding of services. We collected data from administrative health information systems in six South Asian countries (Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, I…

  • More is not enough

    Open AccessSumanta Neupane, Samuel Scott et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2023

    Antenatal care (ANC) is an opportunity to receive interventions that can prevent low birth weight (LBW). We sought to 1) estimate LBW prevalence and burden in South Asia, 2) describe the number of ANC visits (quantity) and interventions received (quality), and 3) explore associations between ANC quantity, quality and LBW. We used Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) data from Afghanistan (2015), Bangladesh (2018), India (2016), Nepal (2016), Pakis…

  • Comparing delivery channels to promote nutrition-sensitive agriculture

    Open AccessAkhter Ahmed, Fiona Coleman et al.ARTICLEFood Policy2023Citada por: 3Referencias: 7

    We use a randomized controlled trial in rural Bangladesh to compare two models of delivering nutrition content jointly to husbands and wives: deploying female nutrition workers versus mostly male agriculture extension workers. Both approaches increased nutrition knowledge of men and women, household and individual diet quality, and women's empowerment. Intervention effects on agriculture and nutrition knowledge, agricultural production diversity,…

  • Learning together

    Open AccessKalyani Raghunathan, Neha Kumar et al.ARTICLEWorld Development2023Citada por: 2Referencias: 1

    India accounts for a large proportion of the global prevalence of maternal and child undernutrition, and recent trends have renewed the call for large-scale concerted efforts to improve outcomes. With their reach to millions of rural Indian women, self-help groups (SHGs) offer a possible solution. We provide evidence from a cluster-randomized controlled trial in the state of Bihar of the impact of a health and nutrition intervention that provided…

  • Can digitally enabling community health and nutrition workers improve services delivery to pregnant women and mothers of infants? Quasi-experimental evidence from a national-scale nutrition programme …

    Open AccessPatil, Sumeet R Patil et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2022

    BACKGROUND: India's 1.4 million community health and nutrition workers (CHNWs) serve 158 million beneficiaries under the Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) programme. We assessed the impact of a data capture, decision support, and job-aid mobile app for the CHNWs on two primary outcomes-(1) timeliness of home visits and (2) appropriate counselling specific to the needs of pregnant women and mothers of children <12 months. METHODS: We us…

  • Using scenario‐based assessments to examine the feasibility of integrating preventive nutrition services through the primary health care system in Bangladesh

    Open AccessPhuong H Nguyen, Priyanjana Pramanik et al.ARTICLEMaternal and Child Nutrition2022

    The National Nutrition Services of Bangladesh aims to deliver nutrition services through the primary health care system. Little is known about the feasibility of reshaping service delivery to close gaps in nutrition intervention coverage and utilization. We used a scenario-based feasibility testing approach to assess potential implementation improvements to strengthen service delivery. We conducted in-depth interviews with 31 service providers an…

  • Revisiting maternal and child undernutrition in low-income and middle-income countries

    Open AccessCesar G Victora, Polly Christian et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2021

  • Missed opportunities for delivering nutrition interventions in first 1000 days of life in India

    Open AccessPhuong H Nguyen, Rasmi Avula et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2021

    OBJECTIVES: Existing health and community nutrition systems have the potential to deliver many nutrition interventions. However, the coverage of nutrition interventions across the delivery platforms of these systems has not been uniform. We (1) examined the opportunity gaps between delivery platforms and corresponding nutrition interventions through the continuum of care in India between 2006 and 2016 and and (2) assessed inequalities in these op…

  • Avoiding the Road to Nowhere

    Open AccessAmnesty LeFevre, Sara Chamberlain et al.ARTICLEGlobal Policy2021

    Digital health solutions offer tremendous potential to enhance the reach and quality of health services and population‐level outcomes in low‐ and middle‐income countries (LMICs). While the number of programs reaching scale increases yearly, the long‐term sustainability for most remains uncertain. In this article, as researchers and implementors, we draw on experiences of designing, implementing and evaluating digital health solutions at scale in …

  • Effect of nutrition counselling with a digital job aid on child dietary diversity

    Open AccessSk Masum Billah, Tarana E Ferdous et al.ARTICLEMaternal and Child Nutrition2021

    Adequate dietary diversity among infants is often suboptimal in developing countries. We assessed the impact of nutrition counselling using a digital job aid on dietary diversity of children aged 6-23 months using data from a cluster randomised controlled trial in Bangladesh. The trial had five arms, each with 25 clusters. The four intervention arms provided counselling using a digital job aid and different prenatal and post-natal combinations of…

  • Trends and geographic variability in gender inequalities in child mortality and stunting in India, 2006–2016

    Open AccessHarold Alderman, Phuong H Nguyen et al.ARTICLEMaternal and Child Nutrition2021

    Gender disparities in child undernutrition and mortality in India have been a topic of interest for a long time, but little is known on trends or geographic variability in recent periods. We examined the degree to which historic patterns in gender disparities in child undernutrition and mortality in India have persisted given recent progress in health and nutrition. Using two nationally representative datasets from India between 2006 and 2016, we…

  • Using cognitive interviewing to bridge the intent‐interpretation gap for nutrition coverage survey questions in India

    Open AccessSattvika Ashok, Sunny S Kim et al.ARTICLEMaternal and Child Nutrition2021

    Designing survey questions that clearly and precisely communicate the question's intent and elicit responses based on the intended interpretation is critical but often undervalued. We used cognitive interviewing to qualitatively assess respondents' interpretation of and responses to questions pertaining to maternal and child nutrition intervention coverage. We conducted interviews to cognitively test 25 survey questions with mothers (N = 21) with…

  • The role of the state government, civil society and programmes across sectors in stunting reduction in Chhattisgarh, India, 2006–2016

    Open AccessNeha Kohli, Phuong H Nguyen et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2020

    INTRODUCTION: Childhood stunting has declined in India between 2006 and 2016, but not uniformly across all states. Little is known about what helped some states accelerate progress while others did not. Insights on subnational drivers of progress are useful not just for India but for other decentralised policy contexts. Thus, we aimed to identify the factors that contributed to declines in childhood stunting (from 52.9% to 37.6%) between 2006 and…

  • Assessing statistical similarity in dietary intakes of women of reproductive age in Bangladesh

    Open AccessGargi Wable Grandner, Katherine L Dickin et al.ARTICLEMaternal and Child Nutrition2020

    Women of reproductive age (WRA) need adequate nutrient intakes to sustain a healthy pregnancy, support fetal growth, and breastfeed after childbirth. However, data on women's dietary intake in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) are limited, and assessment of differences between dietary intakes of pregnant or lactating women compared with that of nonpregnant, nonlactating (NPNL) women is untested. Using single, multiple-pass 24-h dietary rec…

  • Intimate partner violence is associated with poorer maternal mental health and breastfeeding practices in Bangladesh

    Open AccessLan Mai Tran, Phuong H Nguyen et al.ARTICLEHealth Policy and Planning2020Referencias: 41

    Exposure to intimate partner violence (IPV) can have profound adverse consequences on maternal and child health. This study aimed to: (1) identify factors associated with IPV during pregnancy and postpartum in Bangladesh; and (2) assess the associations between IPV and maternal mental health and breastfeeding practices. We used data from a cross-sectional survey of 2000 mothers with children <6 months in four districts in Bangladesh. We applied m…

  • Lessons from using cluster-randomized evaluations to build evidence on large-scale nutrition behavior change interventions

    Open AccessPratiksha Menon, Purnima Menon et al.ARTICLEWorld Development2019Citada por: 1

  • Randomized controlled trials of multi-sectoral programs

    Open AccessAgnes Quisumbing, Akhter Ahmed et al.ARTICLEWorld Development2019Citada por: 1Referencias: 1

    Development is a multi-faceted process; achieving development goals thus requires a multi-sectoral approach. For over two decades, our research group of economists and nutritionists has designed and implemented randomized trials to assess the effectiveness of multisectoral programs in improving nutrition, food security, and other measures of well-being, largely at the request of developing country governments, development partners, and non-govern…

  • Progress in reducing child mortality and stunting in India

    Open AccessHarold Alderman, Phuong H Nguyen et al.ARTICLEHealth Policy and Planning2019Citada por: 1Referencias: 28

    The Lives Saved Tool (LiST) has been used to estimate the impact of scaling up intervention coverage on undernutrition and mortality. Evidence for the model is largely based on efficacy trials, raising concerns of applicability to large-scale contexts. We modelled the impact of scaling up health programs in India between 2006 and 2016 and compared estimates to observed changes. Demographics, intervention coverage and nutritional status were obtai…