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With research staff from more than 70 countries, and offices across the globe, IFPRI provides research-based policy solutions to sustainably reduce poverty and end hunger and malnutrition in developing countries.

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Lily Bliznashka is a Research Fellow in the Nutrition, Diets, and Health Unit. Her research focuses on assessing the effectiveness of multi-input nutrition-sensitive and nutrition-specific interventions and the mechanisms through which they work to improve maternal and child health and nutrition globally. She has worked in Burkina Faso, Burundi, Tanzania, and Uganda.

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Since 1975, IFPRI’s research has been informing policies and development programs to improve food security, nutrition, and livelihoods around the world.

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IFPRI currently has more than 480 employees working in over 70 countries with a wide range of local, national, and international partners.

Nazrul Islam is a Senior Information Technology (IT) Specialist in the Poverty, Gender, and Inclusion Unit, based in Dhaka, Bangladesh. He supports the Feed the Future Bangladesh Research Activity project. He has more than 14 years of experience in IT services and joined IFPRI-Bangladesh in 2013. He completed his master’s degree in IT from the University of Greenwich, UK, and his MBA from IBA, Dhaka University, Bangladesh.