Marko Kerac

Datos Biográficos

ID5475787
NOMBREMarko Kerac
NOMBRESMarko
APELLIDOKerac
FIRMAKERAC M
AFILIACIONESLondon School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
ORCID0000-0002-3745-7317
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS37
TOTAL DE CITAS0
TOTAL COMO AUTOR37
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN2000
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2026
ÍNDICE H0

  • Forty years later

    Open AccessMubarek Abera, Gemechu Ameya et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2026

    BACKGROUND: As the threat of child malnutrition increases, the focus remains mostly on short-term consequences. Long-term sequelae are increasingly recognised but lack strong evidence, and many studies face methodological limitations. METHOD: A retrospective cohort of survivors of the 1984-1985 Great-Ethiopian Famine was compared with two novel control groups: born post-famine; and age category- and sex-matched controls. Exposure to famine at dif…

  • Children with disabilities in nutrition programmes

    Open AccessKatie Fulford, Emily DeLacey et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2026

    Children with disabilities are often excluded in nutrition policy, programming and practice. A recently established “Feeding and Disability Resource Bank” collates currently available guidelines and training materials for children with disabilities. Our research aims to evaluate these resources to improve quality of care for children with disabilities in nutrition programming and services. Objectives include analysis of resources, evaluating gaps…

  • Malnutrition in infants aged under 6 months

    Open AccessMarko Kerac, Philip T James et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2025

    INTRODUCTION: Tackling malnutrition in infants aged under 6 months (u6m) is a major global priority yet evidence around this vulnerable group is weak. We aimed to support the rollout of new 2023 WHO guidelines by examining the burden of infant malnutrition and potential programme caseloads with new enrolment criteria. METHODS: Secondary analysis of Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) datasets. We calculated the number of underweight (low weight-f…

  • Infants less than 6 months of age at risk of poor growth and development

    Open AccessMarko Kerac, Per Ashorn et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2025

    box The 2023 WHO guideline on wasting and nutritional oedema includes four recommendations and four good practice statements on the management of infants less than 6 months of age at risk of poor growth and development, prioritising this vulnerable yet often neglected group

  • Infants and children 6–59 months of age with severe wasting and/or nutritional oedema

    Open AccessDEBBIE THOMPSON, Praveen Kumar et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2025

    box The 2023 WHO guideline on wasting and nutritional oedema includes four new recommendations, three updated recommendations and three new good practice statements for the management of severe wasting and nutritional oedema in infants and children 6–59 months of age

  • The Impact of WHO-2023 Malnutrition Criteria on Caseload of Infants Aged Under Six Months

    Open AccessAyenew Negesse, Tsinuel Girma et al.ARTICLEChildren2025

    In Ethiopia, the WHO-2023 criteria markedly increase malnutrition caseloads compared with WHO-2013 criteria. There might be a case for increasing MUAC thresholds in MUAC-focused programs where WLZ or WAZ measurements are difficult. Future longitudinal data are needed to know which criteria best identify infants at highest risk of mortality/morbidity/poor development

  • From Insult to Injury

    Open AccessDEBBIE THOMPSON, Debbie S Thompson et al.ARTICLEMaternal and Child Nutrition2025

    The relationships between severe malnutrition (SM), rehabilitation weight gain, and cardiometabolic risk in adult survivors have not been fully elucidated. We utilised a previously collected data set to explore these associations in a cohort of adults who were hospitalised for SM as children from 1963 to 1995. We studied 278 adult SM survivors: 60% male; median age (IQR) 26.5(11.3) years; mean BMI 23.6(5.2) kg/m 2 ). Children's minimum weight-for…

  • Formula Labelling in the United Kingdom

    Open AccessMaiko Kamata, Catherine Pereira‐Kotze et al.ARTICLEMaternal and Child Nutrition2025

    The International Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes ('the Code') was established to protect babies and young children from inappropriate marketing of formula milk, bottles and teats and avoid undue commercial influence on caregiver infant feeding practices, including undermining breastfeeding and safe and appropriate formula feeding. UK law encompasses some but not all of the Code. To address persisting concerns about the marketing of i…

  • Maternal mental health and nutritional status of infants aged under 6 months

    Open AccessMubarek Abera, Melkamu Berhane et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2024

    Maternal/caregivers’ mental health (MMH) and child nutrition are both poor in low- and middle-income countries. Links between the two are plausible but poorly researched. Our aim was to inform future malnutrition management programmes by better understanding associations between MMH and nutritional status of infants aged under six month (u6m). We conducted a health facility-based cross-sectional survey of 1060 infants in rural Ethiopia, between O…

  • Children with disabilities lack access to nutrition, health and Wash services

    Open AccessIsabel Rice, Chris Opondo et al.ARTICLEMaternal and Child Nutrition2024

    Malnutrition and disability are major global public health problems. Poor diets, inadequate access to nutrition/health services (NaHS), and poor water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) all increase the risk of malnutrition and infection. This leads to poor health outcomes, including disability. To better understand the relationship between these factors, we explored access to NaHS and household WASH and dietary adequacy among households with and wit…

  • Mortality risk in infants receiving therapeutic care for malnutrition

    Open AccessImteaz Mahmud, Benjamin Guesdon et al.ARTICLEMaternal and Child Nutrition2024

    Small and nutritionally at-risk infants aged under 6 months (<6 months) are at high risk of death, but important evidence gaps exist on how to best identify them. We aimed to determine associations between anthropometric deficits and mortality among infants <6 months admitted to inpatient therapeutic care. A secondary analysis of 2002-2008 data included 5034 infants aged <6 months from 12 countries. We estimated the prevalence, concurrence, and s…

  • Linear Growth During Treatment With a Simplified, Combined Protocol

    Open AccessGrace Heymsfield, Kevin B Stephenson et al.ARTICLEMaternal and Child Nutrition2024

    A simplified, combined protocol treats children with moderate acute malnutrition (MAM), defined by mid-upper arm circumference (MUAC) of < 125 and ≥ 115 mm and no oedema, with 1 daily sachet of ready-to-use therapeutic food (RUTF) and those with severe acute malnutrition (SAM), defined by MUAC < 115 mm and/or oedema, with two daily sachets of RUTF. This protocol was previously shown to result in non-inferior recovery compared to standard treatmen…

  • Strengthening implementation of integrated care for small and nutritionally at‐risk infants under six months and their mothers

    Open AccessMarie Mcgrath, Shimelis Girma et al.ARTICLEMaternal and Child Nutrition2024

    An integrated care pathway to manage small and nutritionally at-risk infants under 6 months (u6m) and their mothers (MAMI Care Pathway) is consistent with 2023 WHO malnutrition guidelines and is being tested in a randomised controlled trial (RCT) in Ethiopia. To optimise trial implementation, we investigated contextual fit with key local stakeholders. We used scenario-based interviews with 17 health workers and four district managers to explore p…

  • Faster rehabilitation weight gain during childhood is associated with risk of non-communicable disease in adult survivors of severe acute malnutrition

    Open AccessDEBBIE THOMPSON, Kimberley McKenzie et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2023

    Nutritional rehabilitation during severe acute malnutrition (SAM) aims to quickly restore body size and minimize poor short-term outcomes. We hypothesized that faster weight gain during treatment is associated with greater cardiometabolic risk in adult life. Anthropometry, body composition (DEXA), blood pressure, blood glucose, insulin and lipids were measured in a cohort of adults who were hospitalized as children for SAM between 1963 and 1993. …

  • Tools for assessing child and adolescent stunting

    Open AccessPannapat Amy Chanyarungrojn, Natasha Lelijveld et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2023

    Stunting affects 149 million children worldwide and is a form of chronic malnutrition defined by low height-for-age. Surveys and intervention programmes depend on effective assessment and identification of affected individuals. Gold standard assessment is based on height-for-age Z-score (HAZ): HAZ

  • Identifying underweight in infants and children using growth charts, lookup tables and a novel “Mami” slide chart

    Open AccessMeenakshi Monga, Catherine Sikorski et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2023

    Malnutrition is a leading cause of preventable deaths in infants and children. To benefit from treatment and prevention programmes, malnourished children must first be identified. Low weight-for-age is an anthropometric indicator of malnutrition which is gaining much recent attention because it is particularly effective at identifying children at highest risk of death. However, assessing weight-for-age can be challenging. We aimed to evaluate a n…

  • Exposure to the 1959–1961 Chinese famine and risk of non-communicable diseases in later life

    Open AccessMengling Cheng, Nicolas Sommet et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2023

    Child undernutrition and later-life non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are major global health issues. Literature suggests that undernutrition/famine exposure in childhood has immediate and long-term adverse health consequences. However, many studies have theoretical and methodological limitations. To add to the literature and overcome some of these limitations, we adopted a life course perspective and used more robust methods. We investigated the …

  • Training Packages and Patient Management Tools for Healthcare Staff Working with Small, Nutritionally At-Risk Infants Aged under 6 Months

    Open AccessRamona Engler, Marie Mcgrath et al.ARTICLEChildren2023

    Skilled staff are essential for successfully managing child malnutrition, especially when dealing with small, nutritionally at-risk infants aged under 6 months. Training and patient management tools provide healthcare workers with core knowledge, skills, and support. To inform more effective future approaches and support the rollout of new WHO wasting prevention/treatment guidelines, we aimed to map and understand globally available training and …

  • How age and sex affect treatment outcomes for children with severe malnutrition

    Open AccessSusan Thurstans, Chris Opondo et al.ARTICLEMaternal and Child Nutrition2023

    Age and sex influence the risk of childhood wasting. We aimed to determine if wasting treatment outcomes differ by age and sex in children under 5 years, enroled in therapeutic and supplementary feeding programmes. Utilising data from stage 1 of the ComPAS trial, we used logistic regression to assess the association between age, sex and wasting treatment outcomes (recovery, death, default, non-response, and transfer), modelling the likelihood of …

  • Childhood BMI and other measures of body composition as a predictor of cardiometabolic non-communicable diseases in adulthood

    Open AccessAmela Bander, Alexia J Murphy-Alford et al.ARTICLEPublic Health Nutrition2023

    Objective: There is growing evidence that childhood malnutrition is associated with non-communicable diseases (NCD) in adulthood and that body composition mediates some of this association. This review aims to determine if childhood body composition can be used to predict later-life cardiometabolic NCD and which measures of body composition predicts future NCD. Design: Electronic databases were searched for articles where: children aged under 5 y…

  • Post-malnutrition growth and its associations with child survival and non-communicable disease risk

    Open AccessNatasha Lelijveld, Sioned Cox et al.ARTICLEPublic Health Nutrition2023

    Objective: To explore patterns of post-malnutrition growth (PMGr) during and after treatment for severe malnutrition and describe associations with survival and non-communicable disease (NCD) risk 7 years post-treatment. Design: Six indicators of PMGr were derived based on a variety of timepoints, weight, weight-for-age z-score and height-for-age z-score (HAZ). Three categorisation methods included no categorisation, quintiles and latent class an…

  • Neurodevelopmental, cognitive, behavioural and mental health impairments following childhood malnutrition

    Open AccessAmir Kirolos, Magdalena Goyheneix et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2022

  • Learning from the Implementation of the Child Nutrition Program

    Open AccessEmily DeLacey, Cally J Tann et al.ARTICLEChildren2022

    Nutrition and feeding interventions are important for children’s growth and development. Holt International’s Child Nutrition Program (CNP) is a child nutrition and feeding intervention. This study aims to describe and explore the implementation of CNP in Mongolia and the Philippines using mixed methods including qualitative and quantitative data analysis. The analysis framework was guided by the WHO’s Monitoring the Building Blocks of Health Sys…

  • Feeding practices of children within institution‐based care

    Open AccessEmily DeLacey, Elizabeth Allen et al.ARTICLEMaternal and Child Nutrition2022

    There is limited information on the feeding practices of 9.42 million children living within institution-based care (IBC) worldwide. Poor feeding practices can predispose or exacerbate malnutrition, illness and disability. Here we describe the feeding practices of children living within IBC based on a retrospective analysis of records from 3335 children, 0-18 years old, participating in Holt International's Child Nutrition Program (CNP), from 36 …

  • Implementing a Care Pathway for small and nutritionally at‐risk infants under six months of age

    Open AccessTabitha D van Immerzeel, Maty Diagne et al.ARTICLEMaternal and Child Nutrition2022

    Nutritional vulnerability under the age of 6 months is prevalent in low- and middle-income countries with 20.1% infants underweight, 21.3% wasted and 17.6% stunted in a recent review. A novel Care Pathway for improved management of small and nutritionally at-risk infants under 6 months and their mothers (MAMI) has recently been developed to provide outpatient care at large coverage. We aimed to investigate stakeholders' views on the feasibility o…