Food Security and Child Malnutrition

Areej Hassan, MD, MPH, is an attending in the Division of Adolescent/Young Adult Medicine at Boston Children’s Hospital and Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School. She completed her residency training in Pediatrics at Brown University before her fellowship at BCH. In addition to primary care, Dr.Hassan focuses her clinical interests on reproductive endocrinology and global health. She also maintains an active role in medical education and has particular interest in building and developing innovative teaching tools through open educational resources. She currently teaches, consults, and is involved in pediatric and adolescent curricula development at multiple sites abroad in Central America and Southeast Asia.

The Food Security Continuum: A Novel Tool for Understanding Food Insecurity as a Range of Experiences. Household Food (In)Security and Nutritional Status of Urban Poor Children Aged 6 to 23 Months in Kenya. Household Food Access and Child Malnutrition: Results from the Eight-Country MAL-ED Study. Food Insecurity and Linear Growth of Adolescents in Jimma Zone, Southwest Ethiopia. Factors Associated with Stunting Among Children According to the Level of Food Insecurity in the Household: A Cross-Sectional Study in a Rural Community of Southeastern Kenya. Beyond Nutrition: Hunger and Its Impact on the Health of Young Canadians. Food Insecurity and Children’s Mental Health: A Prospective Birth Cohort Study. Household Food Insecurity and Childhood Overweight in Jamaica and Québec: A Gender-Based Analysis. Community Perspectives on Food Insecurity and Obesity: Focus Groups with Caregivers of Métis and Off-Reserve First Nations Children. Household Hardships, Public Programs, and Their Associations with the Health and Development of Very Young Children: Insights from Children’s HealthWatch.