By Ramya Ambikapathi, Morgan Boncyk, Nilupa Gunaratna Updated: September 1, 2020 The COVID-19 pandemic has affected food systems globally, increasing…
A behind-the-scenes look at the development of the food transition paper
This short blog post gives an overview of some internal discussions as we finalized our paper and all the fun,…
The Great Disconnect with the food systems/global nutrition
“Food is there to profit, not to nourish you,” says Prof.Raj Patel in the podcast by Mark Bittman with Professors….
Round peg in a square hole – challenges of being a visual thinker
Why am I writing this blog post when I have a deluge of deadlines on November 30, including two papers,…
Creating goodwill out of rejection [in Global Nutrition]
Academia is full of rejection. So much rejection that you can build a business out of it, and many people…
Safari Science: checklist to do less safari, and more science.
[Target audience: young researchers, masters and doctoral students interested/doing global health, postdocs] I first heard of this phrase “Safari Science”…
Transdisciplinary research approaches: Perspective from a young researcher in global nutrition
(Introduction by Ramya Ambikapathi with guest post from Ye Shen from Harvard University) I have been really fortunate to have…
Seminar on COVID-19 impacts on health and food systems
Today my colleague and friend, Dr.Veena Sriram and I gave a talk to the Department of Home Science, Women’s Christian…
Top favorite titles from (mostly) Global Health Nutrition papers
I am making a repository of resources for scientific writing with real world examples, geared towards whoever wants to improve…
Solitude and Scholarship
This week 3 things inspired this post: 1) re-reading solitude and leadership by Dr. William Deresiewicz, 2) listening to Michelle…
Researchers be like “I know a caregiver”; it’s always the mother
Disclaimers: Views my own and I welcome feedback. Just published a paper titled “Men’s nutrition knowledge is important for women’s…