IFPRI seminar: Alive & Thrive maternal-child nutrition program looks to build on successes in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, and Viet Nam
How to scale up a successful nutrition communications and education program.
World Malaria Day 2017: Low-cost solutions for India's push for prevention
An IFPRI program finds that distributing insecticide-treated mosquito nets to pregnant women is an inexpensive way to prevent malaria.
World Health Day 2017: The links between mental health and child undernutrition and illness
IFPRI research shows that maternal mental health problems, including depression, can harm child nutrition and health—and that helping mothers in this regard helps children.
IFPRI's work with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Together, IFPRI and the Gates Foundation have leveraged nutritional research to improve public health around the world.
Newsflash: Chickens don’t use toilets
Research suggests living in close proximity to chickens may make children more prone to health problems. But water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) recommendations focus almost exclusively on human feces.
Getting food businesses to promote global nutrition
A sea change in corporate attitudes is necessary to get food companies to invest.
IFPRI's Bangladesh Integrated Household Survey (BIHS) second round dataset now available
A guide to IFPRI's comprehensive, revealing household survey.
An end in sight to early marriage in Bangladesh?
New IFPRI data show this traditional practice has declined, which should have positive social and health benefits.
Taxing red meat may cut emissions and disease
Targeted taxes on carbon-intensive foods such as beef can help combat climate change while improving public health.
Cash transfers and health: It matters when you measure, and it matters how many health care workers are around to provide services
A close look at health-based conditional cash transfers in Tanzania reveals important nuances in how such increasingly popular programs work.