Blog Posts September 1, 2016 Improving nutrition so all children can survive and thrive A conversation with Greg Reinhart, M.S., Ph.D., Vice President of Research and Nutrition, The Mathile Institute.
Field Stories August 5, 2016 Against all odds, an Indian mother becomes a community health champion: the story of Shilpa Sharma Shilpa Sharma was inspired to become a health activist in her community, dedicating her life to serving other women and their young children – no matter the difficulties ahead.
Events December 4, 2015 Address by MI President and CEO Joel Spicer at launch of Ek Sahi Shuruat in India MI President and CEO Joel Spicer launches major MI initiative, Ek Sahi Shuraut, to improving the lives of over 17 million women, adolescent girls and children in Uttar Pradesh, India.
Field Stories November 16, 2015 Saving lives through better diarrhoea treatment: accomplishments in Bihar and Chhattisgarh Since 2009, MI has been working in two of India’s high-burden states, Bihar and Chhattisgarh, to ensure that children suffering from diarrhoea get treated with zinc and oral rehydration salts (ORS).
Field Stories October 15, 2015 “Zinc and ORS saved my child’s life” A training session for frontline health workers is underway in Shivpuri, a quiet village in the Kishanpur block of Supaul district in Bihar, India.
Field Stories September 29, 2015 Shobha’s story: How her daughter was helped by the local ASHA Shobha Devi, a homemaker in the Salkhua village of Saharsa district in Bihar, India, is busy cleaning the house, her one-year-old daughter, Shrishti, is comfortably perched on her hip.
Field Stories September 15, 2015 Innovation in the supply chain of zinc and ORS, in Bihar, India Making sure essential drugs and services reach people who need it and when they need it is a challenge, especially in the eastern state of Bihar, India, where resources are limited.
Blog Posts August 20, 2015 Is there more than one window of opportunity to improve children’s nutrition? In the past decade or so, people who work to improve the nutrition of women and children have focused on the “1000 day window of opportunity”.
Blog Posts June 4, 2015 New focus on reducing anaemia in adolescent girls Recently, the World Health Assembly set out new global nutrition targets. One such ambitious goal is to see a 50% reduction of anaemia in women of reproductive age by 2025.
Blog Posts November 12, 2014 Anaemia epidemic: we are neglecting adolescent girls' nutrition As we approach the deadline for the 2015 Millennium Development Goals I am concerned that we are not doing enough to reach a critical demographic: adolescent girls, particularly with good nutrition.
