This short blog post gives an overview of some internal discussions as we finalized our paper and all the fun,…
Author: Ramya Ambikapathi
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…