New Project on Modeling Early Risk Indicators to Anticipate Malnutrition
The new three-year project on Modeling Early Risk Indicators to Anticipate Malnutrition (MERIAM) funded by Department for International Development of the United Kingdom (DFID) the kicks-off this week with a two-day workshop at Johns Hopkins University.
The central aim of the project is to identify, test and scale up cost-effective means to improve the prediction and monitoring of undernutrition in difficult contexts, in such a way that it enables an effective response to manage and mitigate nutritional risk. The cross-disciplinary research team that forms the MERIAM consortium is comprised of experts from several pertinent fields and drawn from organizations and institutions that are world leaders in nutrition-related practice and research including Aciton Against Hunger, the University of Maryland, the Graduate Institute Geneva and Johns Hopkins University.