Maternal and child undernutrition: progress hinges on supporting women and more implementation research

Affiliations

¹ Health, Nutrition and Population Global Practice, World Bank Group, Washington, DC 20433, USA. Electronic address: mshekar@worldbank.org.
² School of Public Health, University of Rwanda, Kigali, Rwanda; School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Tulane University, New Orleans, LO, USA.
³ Health, Nutrition and Population Global Practice, World Bank Group, Washington, DC 20433, USA.
⁴ Government of Pakistan, Islamabad, Pakistan.

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Meera Shekar et al. Lancet. 2021.

. 2021 Apr 10;397(10282):1329-1331.

doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(21)00577-8. Epub 2021 Mar 7.

¹ Health, Nutrition and Population Global Practice, World Bank Group, Washington, DC 20433, USA. Electronic address: mshekar@worldbank.org.
² School of Public Health, University of Rwanda, Kigali, Rwanda; School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Tulane University, New Orleans, LO, USA.
³ Health, Nutrition and Population Global Practice, World Bank Group, Washington, DC 20433, USA.
⁴ Government of Pakistan, Islamabad, Pakistan.

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