Nandita Kapadia-Kundu
Biographic Data
| ID | 2140971 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nandita Kapadia-Kundu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nandita |
| FAMILY NAME | Kapadia-Kundu |
| SIGNATURE | KAPADIA-KUNDU N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs |
| ORCID | 0009-0004-5359-9923 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Faith actors and social norms shifting for adolescent health
Across low-and-middle income countries, adolescents navigate social environments where norms shape their opportunities and life trajectories. Faith actors are deeply embedded within these systems and often influence expectations related to communication, sexuality, reproductive health, and marriage. While faith engagement is widely recognized as important for sustainable change, empirical evidence on how faith actors contribute to social norm cha…
Introducing and testing the maternal vulnerability segmentation tool (MVST) for essential health services use
Ethiopia has made substantial progress in improving maternal health outcomes; however, significant disparities remain among populations whose individual, interpersonal, community and cultural factors place them at greater risk, as compared with those with better access to resources and healthcare facilities. Addressing these disparities requires initiating advanced and targeted segmentation tools to effectively identify and reach vulnerable group…
Psychosocial factors associated with malaria care-seeking in rural Ethiopia
Among this rural Ethiopian population, prompt care-seeking was low but positively influenced by both ideational and contextual psychosocial factors occurring at the caregiver level. Multi-sectoral interventions at the individual, community, and health facility levels are needed to improve prompt care-seeking. These include social behavior change interventions to improve ideation, complemented by health facility interventions to ensure provision o…
Physical and sociocultural facilitators and barriers to access and utilization of a nutrition program in rural Malawi
Childhood stunting holds consequences for child development. A nutrition program delivering small-quantity lipid based nutrient supplements (SQ-LNS) to children 6-23 months and child feeding messages was implemented in Malawi to reduce stunting. This study sought to understand the facilitators and barriers to program participation using in-depth interviews, pile sorts, direct observations, and focus group discussions with caretakers, village lead…
Seeds of prevention
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Seeds of prevention
Physical and sociocultural facilitators and barriers to access and utilization of a nutrition program in rural Malawi
Childhood stunting holds consequences for child development. A nutrition program delivering small-quantity lipid based nutrient supplements (SQ-LNS) to children 6-23 months and child feeding messages was implemented in Malawi to reduce stunting. This study sought to understand the facilitators and barriers to program participation using in-depth interviews, pile sorts, direct observations, and focus group discussions with caretakers, village lead…
Psychosocial factors associated with malaria care-seeking in rural Ethiopia
Among this rural Ethiopian population, prompt care-seeking was low but positively influenced by both ideational and contextual psychosocial factors occurring at the caregiver level. Multi-sectoral interventions at the individual, community, and health facility levels are needed to improve prompt care-seeking. These include social behavior change interventions to improve ideation, complemented by health facility interventions to ensure provision o…
Faith actors and social norms shifting for adolescent health
Across low-and-middle income countries, adolescents navigate social environments where norms shape their opportunities and life trajectories. Faith actors are deeply embedded within these systems and often influence expectations related to communication, sexuality, reproductive health, and marriage. While faith engagement is widely recognized as important for sustainable change, empirical evidence on how faith actors contribute to social norm cha…
Introducing and testing the maternal vulnerability segmentation tool (MVST) for essential health services use
Ethiopia has made substantial progress in improving maternal health outcomes; however, significant disparities remain among populations whose individual, interpersonal, community and cultural factors place them at greater risk, as compared with those with better access to resources and healthcare facilities. Addressing these disparities requires initiating advanced and targeted segmentation tools to effectively identify and reach vulnerable group…
Child Nutrition and Water Access (3 works) · Environmental health (3 works) · Medicine (3 works) · Nursing (3 works) · Public health (3 works) · Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations (2 works) · Global Maternal and Child Health (2 works) · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health (1 work)