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Ruth Meinzen-Dick

Ruth Meinzen-Dick is a Senior Research Fellow in the Natural Resources and Resilience Unit. She has extensive transdisciplinary research experience in using qualitative and quantitative research methods. Her work focuses on two broad (and sometimes interrelated) areas: how institutions affect how people manage natural resources, and the role of gender in development processes. 

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Nutrition, Diets, and Health

Rati Kapoor

Data Manager

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Rati Kapoor is a Data Manager in the Nutrition, Diets, and Health Unit, based in the South Asia Office in New Delhi. She works as a part of the POSHAN (Partnerships and Opportunities to Strengthen and Harmonize Action for Nutrition in India) team and contributes to research and project activities focused on nutrition outcomes and on determinants of undernutrition.

Prior to joining IFPRI, Rati worked in the public health sector, where she was involved in mental health, surveillance, and hospital-based projects. She is proficient in Stata and NVivo software for quantitative and qualitative data analysis and has in-depth knowledge of meta-analysis, questionnaire design, and certification in good clinical practices. Her research interests include demography, public health policy, epidemiology, biostatistics, mental health, surveillance, and qualitative and quantitative research methods and analysis. She has a master’s degree in Biostatistics and Demography from the International Institute for Population Sciences, Mumbai, as well as a double master’s degree in Health-Statistics and Statistics.

Nutrition, Diets, and Health

Publications

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Status of nutrition in Nepal: Trends in outcomes, determinants and coverage of interventions between 2016 and 2022

2024
Kapoor, Rati; Gupta, Monali; Gune, Soyra; Christopher, Anita; Nguyen, Phuong; Neupane, Sumanta; Thapa, Lila Bikram; Ghale, Yamuna; Ratanapruck, Prista; Rana, Pooja Pandey
…more Cunningham, Cunningham; Saville, Naomi; Avula, Rasmi
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Status of nutrition in Nepal: Trends in outcomes, determinants and coverage of interventions between 2016 and 2022

This Country Profile describes the trends in key nutrition outcomes, their determinants, and coverage of nutrition and health interventions during critical life stages for women and children in Nepal at the national and province level. The findings are based on the 2016 and 2022 data from Nepal’s Demographic and Health Surveys. Bar graphs were used to visualize national trends, maps and color-coded dashboards illustrate province-level trends. The purpose of the profile is to be an easily interpretable reference for nutrition stakeholders in Nepal.

Year published

2024

Authors

Kapoor, Rati; Gupta, Monali; Gune, Soyra; Christopher, Anita; Nguyen, Phuong; Neupane, Sumanta; Thapa, Lila Bikram; Ghale, Yamuna; Ratanapruck, Prista; Rana, Pooja Pandey; Cunningham, Cunningham; Saville, Naomi; Avula, Rasmi

Citation

Kapoor, Rati; Gupta, Monali; Gune, Soyra; Christopher, Anita; Nguyen, Phuong; Thapa, Lila Bikram; et al. 2024. Status of nutrition in Nepal: Trends in outcomes, determinants and coverage of interventions between 2016 and 2022. SANI Data Note 1. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/155057

Country/Region

Nepal

Keywords

Asia; Southern Asia; Children; Data; Nutrition; Surveys; Women

Language

English

Access/Licence

Open AccessCC-BY-4.0

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Source record

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Data Paper

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Understanding patterns of receipt and consumption of IFA supplements during pregnancy: Empirical considerations for measuring coverage

2024Nguyen, Phuong; Manohar, Swetha; Kim, Sunny S.; Pandya, Niharika; Kapoor, Rati; Munos, Melinda
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Understanding patterns of receipt and consumption of IFA supplements during pregnancy: Empirical considerations for measuring coverage

Objectives: Daily iron-folic acid (IFA) supplementation during pregnancy is a core intervention in low- and middle-income countries. Yet, there is a concern of poor validity and biased population coverage estimates using maternal reports of total number of IFA supplements. This study examined patterns of IFA receipt and consumption among pregnant women in India and identified considerations for measuring coverage of IFA supplementation.

Year published

2024

Authors

Nguyen, Phuong; Manohar, Swetha; Kim, Sunny S.; Pandya, Niharika; Kapoor, Rati; Munos, Melinda

Citation

Nguyen, Phuong; Pandya, Niharika; Kapoor, Rati; Manohar, Swetha; Munos, Melinda; Watson, Shelley; and Kim, Sunny S. 2024. Understanding patterns of receipt and consumption of IFA supplements during pregnancy: Empirical considerations for measuring coverage. Current Developments in Nutrition 8(Supplement 2): 102970. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cdnut.2024.102970

Country/Region

India

Keywords

Asia; Folic Acid; Supplements; Pregnancy; Nutrition

Language

English

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Open AccessCC-BY-ND-4.0

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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cdnut.2024.102970 Source record

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Journal Article

Utilization of Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) and its linkages with undernutrition in India

2024
Singh, Shri K; Chauhan, Alka; Alderman, Harold; Avula, Rasmi; Dwivedi, Laxmi K; Kapoor, Rati; Meher, Trupti; Menon, Purnima; Nguyen, Phuong; Pedgaonker, Sarang
…more Puri, Parul; Chakrabarti, Suman
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Utilization of Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) and its linkages with undernutrition in India

The Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) programme has been the central focus of the POSHAN Abhiyaan to combat maternal and child malnutrition under the national nutrition mission in India. This paper examined the linkages between utilization of ICDS and underweight among children aged 6-59 months. The study utilized data from two recent rounds of the National Family Health Survey (NFHS-4 [2015-2016] and NFHS-5 [2019-2021]). Descriptive analyses were used to assess the change in utilization of ICDS and the prevalence of underweight at the national and state levels. Multivariable logistic regressions were performed to examine factors associated with the utilization of ICDS and underweight. Linkages between utilization of ICDS and underweight were examined using the difference-in-differences (DID) approach. Utilization of ICDS increased from 58% in 2015-2016 to 71% in 2019-2021. The prevalence of underweight decreased from 37% to 32% in the same period. Changes in ICDS utilization and underweight prevalence varied considerably across states, socioeconomic and demographic characteristics. Results from decomposition of DID models suggest that improvements in ICDS explained 9%-12% of the observed reduction in underweight children between 2016 and 2021, suggesting that ICDS made a modest but meaningful contribution in addressing undernutrition among children aged 6-59 months in this period.

Year published

2024

Authors

Singh, Shri K; Chauhan, Alka; Alderman, Harold; Avula, Rasmi; Dwivedi, Laxmi K; Kapoor, Rati; Meher, Trupti; Menon, Purnima; Nguyen, Phuong; Pedgaonker, Sarang; Puri, Parul; Chakrabarti, Suman

Citation

Singh, Shri K.; Chauhan, Alka; Alderman, Harold; Avula, Rasmi; Dwivedi, Laxmi K.; Kapoor, Rati; et al. 2024. Utilization of Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) and its linkages with undernutrition in India. Maternal and Child Nutrition 20(3). https://doi.org/10.1111/mcn.13644

Country/Region

India

Keywords

Asia; Southern Asia; Child Development; Child Health; Child Nutrition; Nutrition Interventions; Nutrition Policies; Nutritional Status; Underweight

Language

English

Access/Licence

Open AccessCC-BY-4.0

Links

https://doi.org/10.1111/mcn.13644 Source record

Project

National Policies and Strategies

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Journal Article

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