Ramadhani Noor

Datos Biográficos

ID6460527
NOMBRERamadhani Noor
NOMBRESRamadhani
APELLIDONoor
FIRMANOOR R
AFILIACIONESHarvard Global Health Institute
ORCID0000-0001-6479-1452
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS20
TOTAL DE CITAS3
TOTAL COMO AUTOR20
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN2015
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2025
ÍNDICE H1

  • Potential Impact of Large‐Scale Food Fortification in Ethiopia

    Open AccessAregash Samuel, Ramadhani Noor et al.ARTICLEMaternal and Child Nutrition2025

    Large-scale food fortification (LSFF) is an effective public health measure because it may reach a large number of populations at risk using current food delivery systems. The objective of the study was to assess coverage and consumption of fortifiable foods at the household level and to assess the potential impact of LSFF on child outcomes (stunting and survival) in Ethiopia. Cross-sectional survey data on sociodemographic characteristics, dieta…

  • Multisectoral Approach to Nutrition in Ethiopia Assessed Through the Lens of the Collective Impact Framework

    Open AccessYetayesh Maru, Stanley Chitekwe et al.ARTICLEMaternal and Child Nutrition2025

    The drivers of malnutrition are complex and multifaceted, requiring multisectoral interventions. The benefits of effective multisectoral approaches to nutrition have been recognised by nutrition policies in Ethiopia, but in practice, multisectoral coordination remains a challenge. This study aimed to identify facilitators and challenges to effective multisectoral coordination by applying the collective impact framework. Key informant interviews (…

  • Comparison of Haemoglobin Concentrations From Venous and From Finger‐Pricked Capillary Blood in a Region With a High Prevalence of Anaemia in Ethiopia

    Open AccessDesalegn Kuche, Masresha Tessema et al.ARTICLEMaternal and Child Nutrition2025

    This cross-sectional study was conducted in the Somali Regional State in Ethiopia. The purpose of the study was to compare haemoglobin (Hb) concentrations from venous and finger-pricked capillary blood using the HemoCue 301 as well as estimating anaemia prevalence. Participants were non-pregnant women of reproductive age (WRA), 18-49 years old (n = 884). Blood was collected by trained laboratory technologists using standard protocols. Venous bloo…

  • Co‐Coverage of Essential Interventions Across the Health System Continuum of Care for Improving Child Nutrition in Ethiopia

    Open AccessAlemnesh Petros, Meron Girma et al.ARTICLEMaternal and Child Nutrition2025

    This study aimed to assess the coverage of essential nutrition interventions delivered through the health system and explored the relationship between co-coverage and child- and maternal-level factors, household-level factors, and access to healthcare facilities. We used data from the Ethiopia Food and Nutrition Strategy Baseline Survey, a population-based cross-sectional study conducted between July 2021 and October 2022. The survey was conducte…

  • Unveiling Disparities and Missed Opportunities in Vitamin A Supplementation Among Children Under Five in Ethiopia

    Open AccessTsedey Moges, Meron Girma et al.ARTICLEMaternal and Child Nutrition2025

    Vitamin A supplementation (VAS) is an effective and low-cost strategy for improving vitamin A status and reducing childhood morbidity and mortality. Ethiopia started nationwide biannual VAS in 2006, but routine VAS coverage consistently remained low, necessitating the use of multiple delivery approaches. This study aimed to determine coverage, existing disparities, and missed opportunities for VAS among children under 5 years of age in Ethiopia. …

  • School health and nutrition environments

    Open AccessRamadhani Noor, Ramadhani A Noor et al.ARTICLEMaternal and Child Nutrition2024

    Schools are increasingly regarded as a key setting for promoting the health, well-being, and development of children and adolescents. In this multicountry cross-sectional survey, we describe the health, nutrition, and food environments of public primary schools in five urban settings in Africa region: Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso; Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; Durban; South Africa, Khartoum, Sudan; and, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. We evaluated the school heal…

  • Estimating the minimal cost of delivering nutrition‐specific and nutrition‐sensitive interventions in Ethiopia

    Open AccessYetayesh Maru, Firehiwot Mesfin et al.ARTICLEMaternal and Child Nutrition2024

    The Ethiopia Food and Nutrition Strategy (FNS 2021-2030) aims to provide evidence-based, nutrition-specific, and sensitive interventions to address malnutrition. A costing exercise was done to estimate the minimum financing needed to implement nutrition interventions for the ten-year FNS, and further analysis was made to estimate the investment required to implement the prioritised recommended Lancet series interventions for 10 years. Activity-ba…

  • Women's input and decision-making in agriculture are associated with diet quality in rural Tanzania

    Open AccessIsabel Madzorera, Lilia Bliznashka et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2023

    Background: Women's empowerment is one critical pathway through which agriculture can impact women's nutrition; however, empirical evidence is still limited. We evaluated the associations of women's participation, input, and decision-making in key agricultural and household activities with women's diet quality. Methods: We analyzed data from a cross-sectional study of 870 women engaged in homestead agriculture. We used food frequency questionnair…

  • Dietary intake and quality for young adolescents in sub‐Saharan Africa

    Open AccessIsabel Madzorera, Sabri Bromage et al.ARTICLEMaternal and Child Nutrition2023

    Adolescents face the risk of the triple burden of malnutrition-the co-existence of micronutrient deficiencies, underweight and overweight and obesity and related noncommunicable diseases. Poor-quality diets are a modifiable risk factor for all forms of malnutrition in adolescents. However, there is limited knowledge about diet quality for African adolescents. We analyzed data from 4609 school-going adolescents aged 10-15 years in Burkina Faso, Et…

  • Adolescent health and well‐being in sub‐Saharan Africa

    Open AccessSanjyot Shinde, Ramadhani Noor et al.ARTICLEMaternal and Child Nutrition2023

    In Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), adolescents make up around one-quarter of the population who are growing up in a rapidly urbanizing environment, with its associated risks and benefits, including impacts on health, psychosocial development, nutrition, and education. However, research on adolescents' health and well-being in SSA is limited. The ARISE (African Research, Implementation Science and Education) Network's Adolescent Health and Nutrition Stu…

  • Food environment around schools and adolescent consumption of unhealthy foods in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

    Open AccessHanna Y Berhane, Amare Worku Tadesse et al.ARTICLEMaternal and Child Nutrition2023

    Adolescent diets may be influenced by the retail food environment around schools. However, international research to examine associations between the proximity of retail food outlets to schools and diet provides equivocal support for an association. This study aims to understand the school food environment and drivers for adolescents' consumption of unhealthy foods in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Mixed-methods research was conducted, 1200 adolescents (…

  • Factors influencing the sustainability of homestead vegetable production intervention in Rufiji, Tanzania

    Open AccessKillian Mlalama, Athanasia Matemu et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2022

    There is growing evidence that home vegetable gardening interventions improve food security and nutrition outcomes at the family level. Sustainability of many of these community interventions remain a challenge. This study assessed factors influencing the sustainability of homestead vegetable production intervention in Rufiji district, Tanzania, one year after the cessation of external support. This was a community based cross-sectional study usi…

  • Are home gardening programs a sustainable way to improve nutrition? Lessons from a cluster-randomized controlled trial in Rufiji, Tanzania

    Open AccessMia M Blakstad, Dominic Mosha et al.ARTICLEFood Policy2022Citada por: 3Referencias: 1

  • Dietary diversity and diet quality with gestational weight gain and adverse birth outcomes, results from a prospective pregnancy cohort study in urban Tanzania

    Open AccessJiaxi Yang, Molin Wang et al.ARTICLEMaternal and Child Nutrition2021

    Healthy maternal diets during pregnancy are an important protective factor for pregnancy-related outcomes, including gestational weight gain (GWG) and birth outcomes. We prospectively examined the associations of maternal dietary diversity and diet quality, using Minimum Dietary Diversity for Women (MDD-W) and Prime Diet Quality Score (PDQS), with GWG and birth outcomes among women enrolled in a trial in Tanzania (n = 1190). MDD-W and PDQS were d…

  • The role of chicken management practices in children’s exposure to environmental contamination

    Open AccessSimone Passarelli, Ramya Ambikapathi et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2021

    Clinical trials number: NCT03152227 ; Retrospectively registered at ClinicalTrials.gov on May 12, 2012

  • Home gardening improves dietary diversity, a cluster‐randomized controlled trial among Tanzanian women

    Open AccessMia M Blakstad, Dominic Mosha et al.ARTICLEMaternal and Child Nutrition2020

    Homestead food production (HFP) programmes improve the availability of vegetables by providing training in growing nutrient-dense crops. In rural Tanzania, most foods consumed are carbohydrate-rich staples with low micronutrient concentrations. This cluster-randomized controlled trial investigated whether women growing home gardens have higher dietary diversity, household food security or probability of consuming nutrient-rich food groups than wo…

  • Men's nutrition knowledge is important for women's and children's nutrition in Ethiopia

    Open AccessRamya Ambikapathi, Simone Passarelli et al.ARTICLEMaternal and Child Nutrition2020

    In an effort to address undernutrition among women and children in rural areas of low-income countries, nutrition-sensitive agriculture (NSA) and behaviour change communication (BCC) projects heavily focus on women as an entry point to effect nutritional outcomes. There is limited evidence on the role of men's contribution in improving household diets. In this Agriculture to Nutrition trial (Clinicaltrials.gov identifier: NCT03152227), we explore…

  • Market food diversity mitigates the effect of environment on women’s dietary diversity in the Agriculture to Nutrition (Atonu) study, Ethiopia

    Open AccessRamya Ambikapathi, Nilupa S Gunaratna et al.ARTICLEPublic Health Nutrition2019

    Objective In Ethiopia, women’s dietary diversity is low, primarily due to poor food availability and access, both at home and market level. The present study aimed to describe market access using a new definition called market food diversity (MFD) and estimate the impact of MFD, crop and livestock diversity on dietary diversity among women enrolled in the Agriculture to Nutrition (ATONU) trial. Design Baseline cross-sectional data collected from …

  • Do countries rely on the World Health Organization for translating research findings into clinical guidelines? A case study

    Open AccessRamadhani Noor, Ramadhani A Noor et al.ARTICLEGlobalization and Health2016

    BACKGROUND: The World Health Organization's (WHO) antiretroviral therapy (ART) guidelines have generally been adopted rapidly and with high fidelity by countries in sub-Saharan Africa. Thus far, however, WHO has not published specific guidance on nutritional care and support for (non-pregnant) adults living with HIV despite a solid evidence base for some interventions. This offers an opportunity for a case study on whether national clinical guide…

  • Gender differences in diet and nutrition among adults initiating antiretroviral therapy in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

    Ajibola Ibraheem Abioye, Sheila Isanaka et al.ARTICLEAIDS Care2015

    Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected males have poor treatment outcomes after initiation of antiretroviral therapy (ART) compared to HIV-infected women. Dietary factors might mediate the association between sex and disease progression. However, the gender difference in diet among HIV-infected individuals in sub-Saharan Africa is largely unknown. The objective of this study was to examine differences in dietary intake among HIV-infected men…