Effectiveness of personalised home-based nutritional counselling on infant feeding practices in urban informal settlements, Nairobi, Kenya

Elizabeth is an associate research scientist at the African Population and Health Research Center. Her study aims to determine the effectiveness of personalised home-based nutritional counselling on infant feeding practices and, consequently, on health and nutritional outcomes of infants in urban slums in Nairobi, Kenya. Pregnant women are recruited during pregnancy and counselled by community health workers on breastfeeding, infant feeding and their own nutrition, then followed up with their children to investigate the effect of the counselling on infant nutrition and health outcomes. Elizabeth’s collaborators include Professor Nyovani Madise at the University of Southampton and Dr Paula Griffiths at Loughborough University.

This grant was awarded under the scheme's previous name of Training Fellowships in Public Health and Tropical Medicine.