Household food insecurity, maternal nutrition, environmental risks and infants’ health outcomes: protocol of the IMPALA birth cohort study in Uganda

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• Angela Obasi,
• Rachel Tolhurst,
• Miriam Taegtmeyer,
• Kevin Mortimer,
• Maia Lesosky,
• Jahangir Khan,
• William Worodria,
• Jamie Rylance,
• Lindsay Zurba,
• Imelda Bates,
• Graham Devereux,
• Rebecca Nantanda,
• Emmanuel Addo-Yobo,
• Brian Allwood,
• Hastings Banda,
• Amsalu Binegdie,
• Asma El Sony,
• Adegoke Falade,
• Bertrand Mbatchou,
• Hellen Meme,
• Beatrice Mutayoba,
• Nyanda Elias Ntinginya,
• Heather Zar,
• Eliya Zulu,
• Louis Wihelmus Niessen,
• Zelalem G Terfa,
• Muhwa Jeremiah Chakaya,
• S Bertel Squire

Affiliations

Angela Obasi

Department of International Public Health, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, UK

Rachel Tolhurst

Clinical Sciences and International Public Health, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, UK

Miriam Taegtmeyer

2 Department of International Public Health, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, UK

Kevin Mortimer

Department of Clinical Sciences, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, UK

Maia Lesosky

Department of Clinical Sciences, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, UK

Jahangir Khan

International Centre for Diarhoeal Disease Resaerch, Dhaka, Bangladesh

William Worodria

Mulago National Referral Hospital, Uganda Ministry of Health, Kampala, Uganda

Jamie Rylance

Department of Clinical Sciences, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, UK

Lindsay Zurba

5 Education for Health Africa, Vereeniging, South Africa

Imelda Bates

Centre for Capacity Research, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, UK

Graham Devereux

Department of Clinical Sciences, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, UK

Rebecca Nantanda

Makerere University Lung Institute, Makerere University College of Health Sciences, Kampala, Uganda, Uganda

Emmanuel Addo-Yobo

9 School of Medical Sciences, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana

Brian Allwood

Department of Medicine, Lung Infection and Immunity Unit, Division of Pulmonology & UCT Lung Institute, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

Hastings Banda

Amsalu Binegdie

3 Department of Medicine, Addis Ababa University School of Medicine/Tikur Anbessa Specialized Hospital, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Asma El Sony

Adegoke Falade

Bertrand Mbatchou

Hellen Meme

Beatrice Mutayoba

Administration Department, National AIDS Control Program, Dodoma, Tanzania

Nyanda Elias Ntinginya

Mbeya Medical Research Centre, National Institute of Medical Research, Mbeya, Tanzania, United Republic of

Heather Zar

2Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital, MRC Unit on Child and Adolescent Health Unit, Cape Town, South Africa

Eliya Zulu

Louis Wihelmus Niessen

Department of International Public Health, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, UK

Zelalem G Terfa

Department of Clinical Sciences, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, UK

Muhwa Jeremiah Chakaya

S Bertel Squire