Severe acute malnutrition
Complicated malnutrition, therapeutic feeding, stabilisation and nutritional recovery.
Research priorities
A whole-child view of nutrition and illness
MNRG connects visible clinical outcomes with underlying biology, development, household context and research systems.
Acute illness & recovery
Risk during hospitalisation, discharge and the months after a child returns home.
Mortality & causes of death
Clinical and minimally invasive approaches to improve cause-of-death evidence.
Growth & development
Anthropometry, developmental assessment, complementary feeding and caregiver interventions.
Gut, liver & metabolism
Intestinal, pancreatic, liver and metabolic function in illness and malnutrition.
Infection & inflammation
Microbiome, microbial translocation, immune responses and antimicrobial exposure.
Micronutrients & foods
Micronutrients, therapeutic foods, feeding strategies and programme effectiveness.
Families & health systems
Caregiver, household, socioeconomic, care-seeking and health-system determinants.
Data & research systems
Clinical methods, digital data collection, data quality, multi-omics and responsible analytics.