Publication

Bahwere. Mangochi Research on the Nutrition Care of Chronically Sick Adults using Chickpea Sesame based Ready-to-Use Therapeutic Food Save the Children USA, Lilongwe. July 2007

Soya, maize and sorghum ready-to-use therapeutic foods are more effective in correcting anaemia and iron deficiency than the standard ready-to-use therapeutic food: randomised controlled trial.  BMC Public Health, (2019); 19:806

Soya, maize, and sorghum–based ready-to-use therapeutic food with amino acid is as efficacious as the standard milk and peanut paste–based formulation for the treatment of severe acute malnutrition in children: A noninferiority individually randomized controlled efficacy clinical trial in Malawi.  AJCN, 2017; 106: 1100/12

The need for adult therapeutic care in emergency feeding programs. Lessons from Somalia, JAMA (270 (5))

The limits of human adaptation to starvation, Nature Medicine 1(8)

Borton et al. Humanitarian Aid and Effects, The International response to conflict and genocide: lessons from the Rwanda experience – Study 3 of the Joint evaluation of emergency assistance to Rwanda. DANIDA/ODI, London 1996

Using middle upper arm circumference to assess severe adult malnutrition during famine, JAMA (276 (5))

Dietary treatment of severe malnutrition in adults, AJCN, (68 (1))

The risks of wet feeding, ENN (3)

Assessment of nutritional status of adults in emergency-affected populations, RNIS Supplement ACCN (August)

Short-term prognosis in severe adult and adolescent malnutrition during famine, JAMA, (284(5))

Raising standards in emergency relief: how useful are sphere minimum standards for humanitarian assistance? British Medical Journal, September, (323(7315))

Changing the way we address severe malnutrition during famine, The Lancet (358)

Dr Steve Collins reflects on the opportunities and problems associated with the USD$250 million contribution announced by Administrator, Samantha Power of USAID – a positive catalyst for change?

VALID commissioned and achieved peer-review of a professional report to quantify objectively the overall climate impact profile of the amino-acid enhanced, plant-based RUTF recipe. It has found that the overall global warming potential impacts of the plant-based RUTF recipe are 47%-52% less than the milk-peanut based recipe.

Dr Steve Collins gives a hugely informative and enlightened interview to ENN podcast while discussing his candid Reflections on the UN Global Action Plan on Wasting.