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Understanding the role of household hygiene practices and foodborne disease risks in child stunting: a UKRI GCRF Action Against Stunting Hub protocol paper (2024)
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Dominguez-Salas, P., Waddington, H. S., Grace, D., Bosire, C., Moodley, A., Kulkarni, B., …Häsler, B. (in press). Understanding the role of household hygiene practices and foodborne disease risks in child stunting: a UKRI GCRF Action Against Stunting Hub protocol paper. BMJ Paediatrics Open, 8(Suppl 1), e001695. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjpo-2022-001695

Investigating market-based opportunities for the provision of nutritious and safe diets to prevent childhood stunting: a UKRI-GCRF action against stunting hub protocol paper (2024)
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Cooper, G. S., Davies-Kershaw, H., Dominguez-Salas, P., Fahmida, U., Faye, B., Ferguson, E., …Heffernan, C. (2024). Investigating market-based opportunities for the provision of nutritious and safe diets to prevent childhood stunting: a UKRI-GCRF action against stunting hub protocol paper. BMJ Paediatrics Open, 8(Suppl 1), e001671. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjpo-2022-001671

Modulating the early-life gut microbiota using pro-, pre-, and synbiotics to improve gut health, child development, and growth (2023)
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Kadia, B., Otiti, M., Ramsteijn, A., Sow, D., Faye, B., Heffernan, C., …Allen, S. (2023). Modulating the early-life gut microbiota using pro-, pre-, and synbiotics to improve gut health, child development, and growth. Nutrition Reviews, https://doi.org/10.1093/nutrit/nuad050

In children exposed to poor hygiene and sanitation, invasion of the gut by pathogenic microbes can result in a subclinical enteropathy termed "environmental enteric dysfunction" (EED) that contributes to undernutrition, growth faltering, and impaired... Read More about Modulating the early-life gut microbiota using pro-, pre-, and synbiotics to improve gut health, child development, and growth.

Systematic review to evaluate a potential association between helminth infection and physical stunting in children (2022)
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Raj, E., Calvo-Urbano, B., Heffernan, C., Halder, J., & Webster, J. (2022). Systematic review to evaluate a potential association between helminth infection and physical stunting in children. Parasites and Vectors, 15(1), https://doi.org/10.1186/s13071-022-05235-5

Background: Despite considerable public health efforts over the past 20 years, childhood stunting (physical and/or cognitive) levels globally remain unacceptably high-at 22% amongst children under 5 years old in 2020. The aetiology of stunting is com... Read More about Systematic review to evaluate a potential association between helminth infection and physical stunting in children.

A comparison of policies to reduce the methane emission intensity of smallholder dairy production in India (2017)
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York, L., Heffernan, C., & Rymer, C. (2017). A comparison of policies to reduce the methane emission intensity of smallholder dairy production in India. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agee.2017.05.032

Within the dairy sector, the effects of climate change are particularly diverse as cows are affected by, and a significant contributor to climate change. With a burgeoning body of work indicating the importance of livestock’s contribution to climate... Read More about A comparison of policies to reduce the methane emission intensity of smallholder dairy production in India.

Willingness to pay for contagious bovine pleuropneumonia vaccination in Narok South District of Kenya (2014)
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Kairu-Wanyoike, S. W., Kaitibie, S., Heffernan, C., Taylor, N. M., Gitau, G. K., Kiara, H., & McKeever, D. (2014). Willingness to pay for contagious bovine pleuropneumonia vaccination in Narok South District of Kenya. Preventive Veterinary Medicine, 115(3-4), 130-142. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.prevetmed.2014.03.028

Contagious bovine pleuropneumonia (CBPP) is an economically important trans-boundary cattle disease which affects food security and livelihoods. A conjoint analysis–contingent valuation was carried out on 190 households in Narok South District of Ken... Read More about Willingness to pay for contagious bovine pleuropneumonia vaccination in Narok South District of Kenya.

Control of contagious bovine pleuropneumonia: knowledge, attitudes, perceptions and practices in Narok district of Kenya (2014)
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Kairu-Wanyoike, S. W., Kiara, H., Heffernan, C., Kaitibie, S., Gitau, G. K., McKeever, D., & Taylor, N. M. (2014). Control of contagious bovine pleuropneumonia: knowledge, attitudes, perceptions and practices in Narok district of Kenya. Preventive Veterinary Medicine, 115(3-4), 143-56. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.prevetmed.2014.03.029

CBPP is an important transboundary disease in sub-Saharan Africa whose control is urgent. Participatory data collection involving 52 focus group discussions in 37 village clusters and key informant interviews, a cross-sectional study involving 232 ho... Read More about Control of contagious bovine pleuropneumonia: knowledge, attitudes, perceptions and practices in Narok district of Kenya.

A deterministic evaluation of heat stress mitigation and feed cost under climate change within the smallholder dairy sector
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York, L., Heffernan, C., Rymer, C., & Panda, N. (2017). A deterministic evaluation of heat stress mitigation and feed cost under climate change within the smallholder dairy sector. animal, 11(5), https://doi.org/10.1017/S1751731116002706

In the global South, dairying is often promoted as a means of poverty alleviation. Yet, under conditions of climate warming, little is known regarding the ability of small-scale dairy producers to maintain production and/or the robustness of possible... Read More about A deterministic evaluation of heat stress mitigation and feed cost under climate change within the smallholder dairy sector.