Sunil K Khanna
Biographic Data
| ID | 138081 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sunil K Khanna |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sunil K |
| FAMILY NAME | Khanna |
| SIGNATURE | KHANNA S K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Oregon State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4504-2370 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 54 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 54 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Between Structure and Practice
Ecology of Food and Nutrition (EFN) occupies a distinctive place in the nutrition sciences. It is among the few peer-reviewed journals that explicitly situate dietary outcomes within the ecological
From Deficiency to Resilience
Ecology of Food and Nutrition (EFN) fosters rigorous scholarly discussion with the interconnected dimensions of food and nutrition. The journal publishes research on how food and food systems shape...
Barriers to child nutrition in Bengaluru slums
Stigma and structural factors shaping mental healthcare services for children and adolescents in India
This study centres the voices of providers currently working with the child and adolescent population to analyse social and structural factors that facilitate or impede access and service utilisation among children and adolescents. We conducted semistructured interviews with 15 psychological health care providers across 4 metropolitan cities in India. Thematic analysis was guided by an immersion-crystallization study design. Following this modifi…
Food, Inequality, and Identity
Food Insecurity, Traditional Dietary Beliefs and Practices, and Health
Food, Nutrition, and Identity Across Diverse Populations
Exploring Perceptions and Resources for Addressing Gender-Based Violence in Rural Botswana
Gender-based violence (GBV) disproportionately affects women and girls globally. In Botswana, GBV prevalence is higher than global averages. Community perspectives on GBV and resources for survivors in rural Botswana were examined to develop a deeper understanding of cultural and contextual factors influencing GBV and the utilization of existing resources through thematic analysis. Semi-structured interviews and focus group discussions ( n = 29) …
Food Insecurity, Child Health, and Vulnerable Populations
Child Malnutrition and Household Food Security
Ecology of Food and Nutrition (EFN) fosters rigorous scholarly discourse regarding the interconnected and comprehensive aspects of food and nutrition. The journal’s articles explore the dynamic rol
Chronic Malnutrition and Cognitive Development in Childhood and Adolescence
Nutrition and Well-Being
Trends in attitudinal acceptance of wife-beating, domestic violence, and help-seeking among married women in Nepal
This study aimed to assess the nature and magnitude of perceptions of wife-beating among women and men in Nepal and experiences of domestic violence (DV) and help-seeking among DV victims. The Nepal Demographic Health Surveys (NDHS) (2001, 2006, 2011, 2016) included questions on whether women and men justify wife-beating and whether DV victims sought help (NDHS 2011 and 2016). Covariates in regression models were guided by the socioecological mod…
Navigating Food and Nutrition Challenges
Ecology of Food and Nutrition (EFN) fosters rigorous scholarly discourse regarding the interconnected and comprehensive aspects of food and nutrition. The journal’s articles explore the dynamic rol
Impact of Covid-19 on Food Security and Health
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A Locally-Produced Plant-Based Supplement Swathi Savi (Savi) Enrichment Improves Body Growth, Bone Development, and Immune Functions in Protein Malnourished Mice
Child malnutrition is a critical global challenge. India alone is home to nearly 46 million stunted children, a third of the world's total. Supplementing locally-produced foods has been acknowledged as a sustainable strategy for combating child malnutrition. We used an established protein malnutrition (PM) model in young mice to evaluate the safety and efficacy of the SAVI-enriched diet as a food supplement to combat child malnutrition in India. …
Cultural Influences on Food and Dietary Diversity
Changing patterns of food, nutrition, and health
Food Security, Food Choices, and Dietary Practices
Cultural Influences on Food
Global Perspectives on Food Insecurity, Nutritional Knowledge, and Community Health and Well-Being
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Global Perspectives on Food Sovereignty, Household Resilience, and Dietary Diversity
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Household Food Insecurity, Dietary Acculturation, and Obesity
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Food Security, Local Access to Healthy Foods, and Malnutrition
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Food Availability, Food Security, and Maternal Mental Health
Traditions and reproductive technology in an urbanizing north Indian village
A Review of Tenure and Promotion Guidelines in Higher Education
Anthropology as a discipline over the past four decades has attracted increasingly more students studying at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. At the same time, the career expectations of many students have shifted from a primary focus on full‐time academic positions to a multitude of types of positions in the public and private sectors. Many of these positions are in the area of practicing, applied, and public interest anthropology. An…
Family-building strategies in urban India
This article examines desired family size and sex composition, the extent of son preference, the underlying motivations for the preference, and the knowledge and use of the new reproductive technologies to achieve these preferences in two culturally distinct but economically similar immigrant communities in New Delhi, India. The two groups – one group from Punjab, north India, and the other from Kerala, south India – are considered in the literat…
Anthropological Approaches for Understanding the Complexities of the Global Food Crisis
The current global food crisis can be, in part, described as an outcome of not only historical patterns of income inequalities and long-standing food trade policies biased in favor of wealthier nations but also in terms of significant reductions in food aid and other safety-net programs for people living in poor nations. Despite the serious nature of the problem of food insecurity, only a limited amount of reliable descriptive research, especiall…
Tribal Health and Medicines
Tribal Health and Medicines. A. K. Kalla and P. C. Joshi, eds. New Delhi, India: Concept Publishing, 2004. xxi + 447 pp
Shahri Jat and Pahari Jatni
This paper discusses women’s changing roles in Shahargaon - a rapidly urbanizing Jat village in New Delhi, India. The paper traces the change in women’s identity and roles in the context of shift in subsistence strategy from agriculture to an urban economy and examines how Jat women maintain rural-urban network ties and traditional Jat identity in an urban context. As the Shahargaon Jat community experiences social change brought about by urban e…
Traditions and reproductive technology in an urbanizing north Indian village
New Reproductive Technology in India
New reproductive technologies that include techniques associated with pre-natal sex determination, pre-conceptional sperm separation, in vitro fertilization and other similar techniques used for sex selective conception have made advances du ring the last few decades. The paper discusses the ethnical issu es a nd social implication of these technologies with particular reference to Indian situations. Although pre-natal sex determination and sex s…
Shahri Jat and Dehati Jatni
This paper seeks to understand the gender-specific consequences of the Shahargaon Jat community's increasing urban contact with New Delhi. It examines the consequences of a quick assimilation of Jat men into income-generating activities in the urban market and a corresponding loss of Jat women's economic roles, leading to their further seclusion and marginalization within the household and community. By providing a historically contextualized acc…
Shahri Jat and Pahari Jatni
This paper discusses women’s changing roles in Shahargaon - a rapidly urbanizing Jat village in New Delhi, India. The paper traces the change in women’s identity and roles in the context of shift in subsistence strategy from agriculture to an urban economy and examines how Jat women maintain rural-urban network ties and traditional Jat identity in an urban context. As the Shahargaon Jat community experiences social change brought about by urban e…
Shahri Jat and Dehati Jatni
This paper seeks to understand the gender-specific consequences of the Shahargaon Jat community's increasing urban contact with New Delhi. It examines the consequences of a quick assimilation of Jat men into income-generating activities in the urban market and a corresponding loss of Jat women's economic roles, leading to their further seclusion and marginalization within the household and community. By providing a historically contextualized acc…
Tribal Health and Medicines
Tribal Health and Medicines. A. K. Kalla and P. C. Joshi, eds. New Delhi, India: Concept Publishing, 2004. xxi + 447 pp
Food and Culture
Food and Culture: A Reader is a weighty collection of thirty-six essays written by social researchers from diverse fields of inquiry. These essays examine the theoretical foundations of food studie
Family-building strategies in urban India
This article examines desired family size and sex composition, the extent of son preference, the underlying motivations for the preference, and the knowledge and use of the new reproductive technologies to achieve these preferences in two culturally distinct but economically similar immigrant communities in New Delhi, India. The two groups – one group from Punjab, north India, and the other from Kerala, south India – are considered in the literat…
Anthropological Approaches for Understanding the Complexities of the Global Food Crisis
The current global food crisis can be, in part, described as an outcome of not only historical patterns of income inequalities and long-standing food trade policies biased in favor of wealthier nations but also in terms of significant reductions in food aid and other safety-net programs for people living in poor nations. Despite the serious nature of the problem of food insecurity, only a limited amount of reliable descriptive research, especiall…
A Review of Tenure and Promotion Guidelines in Higher Education
Anthropology as a discipline over the past four decades has attracted increasingly more students studying at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. At the same time, the career expectations of many students have shifted from a primary focus on full‐time academic positions to a multitude of types of positions in the public and private sectors. Many of these positions are in the area of practicing, applied, and public interest anthropology. An…
Global Perspectives on Nutritional Knowledge, Eating Behavior, Household Food Security, and Hunger
In the last two decades, especially, social and biological scientists have examined a variety of topics related to food and nutrition. They have not only broadened the scope of topics, but also use...
Understanding the Impact of Globalization on Food Preferences, Dietary Patterns, and Health
The main purpose of Ecology of Food and Nutrition (EFN) is to promote scholarly debate and engagement on the holistic and cross-cultural dimensions of the study of food and nutrition. It emphasizes
Global Perspectives on Climate Change, Gender, Ethnicity, Food taboos, and Local Knowledge
Household food security, and social support as protective factors
Food, eating behavior, and self-efficacy
Dietary diversity and the health of children and adolescents
Food knowledge, loss aversion, and complementary feeding
Growth, Bone Health, and Cognition
This study evaluated an alternative ocean-based fish protein, Advanced Protein Powder (APP) as a feasible, environmentally sustainable protein source to reduce childhood malnutrition. We completed a rodent feeding study to evaluate growth and development in young growing mice on a purified diet containing APP as compared to mice-fed diets using other common protein sources - casein, whey, and soy. Results suggested APP to be an effective and safe…
Food Insecurity, ICT, and Food Culture Mismatch
Global perspectives on ethnicity, health, and food security
Food Choice Trajectories, Transitions, and Indigenous Knowledge
Food Preference, Infant and Child Feeding, and Household Food Security
Dietary Transition, Food Security, and Health Promotion
Food Availability, Food Security, and Maternal Mental Health
Global Perspectives on Assessing and Improving the Health and Nutritional Status of Mothers and Children
Ecology of Food and Nutrition (EFN) promotes scholarly discussion and engagement on the holistic and cross-cultural dimensions of the study of food and nutrition. Articles published in this journal
Medicine (26 works) · Environmental health (23 works) · Geography (22 works) · Sociology (18 works) · Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations (17 works) · Biology (16 works) · Psychology (15 works) · Food security (14 works) · Political science (13 works) · Agriculture (11 works)