Project Brief

Food‐SAMSA: Food environments in Africa: Addressing malnutri‐ tion using a syndemics approach. 

This project aims to address malnutrition in all its forms, including over‐ and undernutrition, by assessing its determinants and by exploring interventions at the macro (policy), meso (community) and micro (interpersonal) level. 

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Klinger C, Rehfuess EA, Delobelle P, Theurich M, Holliday N, Okanmelu E, Gedrich K, Alaba O, von Philipsborn P: Adaptation of the INFORMAS BIA-Obesity framework for countries facing a double burden of malnutrition: a Delphi study protocol. Open Science Framework (OSF) 2024. (Online, open access)

Holliday N, Klinger C, Lembani M, Kroll F, Pitt S, von Philipsborn P, Rehfuess E, Delobelle P: Drivers and Levers of the Double Burden of Malnutrition in South Africa: Protocol for a Complex Systems Mapping Exercise. Open Science Framework (OSF) 2023. (Online, open access)

Klinger C, Alaba O, Delobelle P, Holliday N, Lambert E, Leibinger A, Okanmelu E, Rehfuess E, von Philipsborn P: Recommendations for and best practices by the formal food industry to address undernutrition and the double burden of malnutrition: a scoping review protocol. Open Science Framework (OSF) 2023. (Online, open access)

Wentzel A, Levitt N, Mchiza ZJ. The measurement and determinants of adolescent metabolic syndrome in Africa: a scoping review protocol. Open Science Framework (OSF) 2023. (Online, open access)

Wentzel A, Opperman LJ, Nguyen K, Mchiza ZJ. Lifestyle-related determinants of metabolic syndrome in adolescents: a systematic review protocol. PROSPERO 2023 CRD42023429292 (Online, open access)

Okanmelu, E. C., Mchiza, Z. J., & Sekgala, M. D. (2023, August 17). Leveraging community health workers for context-specific food and nutrition education: the implementation and process of a multi-media edutainment intervention for South Africans. (Online, open access)

Hill J, Wentzel A, Klinger C, Holliday N, Alaba O, Delobelle P, Okanmelu E, Philipsborn P, Mchiza Z. Leveraging informal food businesses to improve community food environments in South Africa: a protocol. The 5th Global Food Security Conference took place from 9th to 12th April 2024 in Leuven, Belgium (Poster)

3. Mchiza Z, Okanmelu E, De Backer C, Vandebosch H, Ngqangashe Y, Wentzel A, Hill J, Von Philipsborn P, Holliday N, Sekgala D, Alaba O, Delobelle P, Lambert VE. Improving food and nutrition literacy among community health workers: a multi-media edutainment intervention. The 5th Global Food Security Conference took place from 9th to 12th April 2024 in Leuven, Belgium (Poster)

Wentzel A, Eichinger M, Hill J, von Philipsborn P, Holliday N, Delobelle P, Mchiza Z. Geospatial mapping of food advertisements in three low-income communities in Cape Town, South Africa. European Journal of Public Health, 2023. 33: Issue Supplement 2. (Poster)

Klinger C, Alaba O, Delobelle P, Holliday N, Lambert EV, Leibinger A, Okanmelu EC, Rehfuess EA, von Philipsborn P. Adaptation of the BIA-Obesity framework to assess the role of the food industry in addressing the double burden of malnutrition. ISBNPA Conference from 14-17 June 2023 in Uppsala, Sweden (Poster)

Klinger C, Okanmelu EC, Holliday N, Leibinger A, Alaba O, Delobelle P, Rehfuess EA, Lambert EV, von Philipsborn P. Formal food industry policies to address undernutrition: a scoping review. WPHNC from 10-13 June 2024 in London, UK (Presentation)

Klinger C, Okanmelu EC, Holliday N, Leibinger A, Alaba O, Delobelle P, Rehfuess EA, von Philipsborn P. Beiträge der Lebensmittelindustrie zum Adressieren des Double Burden of Malnutrition: ein Systematisches Review. 61. Scientific Congress of the Germany Nutrition Society (DGE) from 4-6 March 2024 in Kassel, Germany (Presentation)

Klinger C, Okanmelu EC, Holliday N, Leibinger A, Alaba O, Delobelle P, Rehfuess EA, Lambert EV, von Philipsborn P. Recommendations for and best practices by the formal food industry to address undernutrition and the double burden of malnutrition: a scoping review. 3rd African Food Environment Research Network (FERN2023) Meeting, 1-3 November 2023 (Presentation)