
Emily Mates
@emilymates
Maternal Nutrition Specialist with UNICEF HQ. Views all mine, etc.
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13-01-2014 18:24:36
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👏Check out this new way to identify stunted children & adolescents 👏 📏 The ‘MEIRU wallchart’ is: ✅Easy to use ✅Acceptable ✅Accurate ✅Sensitive & specific Important work by LSHTM Nutrition Group members @Lelijveld_et_al Marko Kerac w/Emergency Nutrition Network journals.plos.org/globalpubliche…



What causes gender inequality in women’s nutrition? 👉🏾Poor Services 👉🏾Low Decision Making Power 👉🏾Poor Quality Diets Hearing from Saskia Osendarp on the importance of focusing on Micronutrient Supplements Women Deliver event Sight and Life Eleanor Crook Foundation


“ UNICEF right now are putting a lot of time and effort into the implementation and uptake of this new MMS product … we are supporting governments to scale up … we need to ensure that all women in LMICs have access to this product” Emily Mates speaking at Women Deliver


kirk humanitarian Eleanor Crook Foundation The Children's Investment Fund Foundation HealthyMothersHealthyBabies Elvis Gakuba Women Deliver Saskia Osendarp Klaus Kraemer Mairo Mandara MBBS, FWACS, FFPH UK , FoE Emily Mates "Enough is enough. The evidence is there for MMS. We've published two special reports. We can and need to act now. We cannot wait another 20 years to transition from IFA to MMS for pregnant women." - Dr. Sufia Askari Managing Director, Sight and Life.







This report was a long time in the making and delighted it's out! Read more to find out what's happening in humanitarian emergenices with MMS: buff.ly/49ZGRWD Thanks to co-authors Emily Mates UNICEF Kate Sadler Dr Amir Ali Samnani & reviewers HealthyMothersHealthyBabies Eleanor Crook Foundation



Way to go Sophie Healy-Thow - looking amazing and sounding even better!! thoroughly deserved prize - so proud of you!! 🎉🥳💕

