Faculty Publications

The Harvard Center for International Development is home to faculty affiliates from each school at Harvard University, working across sectors in developing nations around the world.

Faculty research is published in a wide range of academic and policy venues and can be found through the feed and filters below. Select faculty research papers are highlighted in our Faculty Research Insights series on our blog, CID Voices.

CID working papers published by Harvard faculty, graduate students, and research fellows prior to 2024 can be found here.

CID Faculty Research Insights

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Iron supplementation among children living with HIV

Wafaie W. Fawzi

Vol. 11, Issue 11, Pages e718-e719

Anaemia is prevalent in approximately 500 000 children living with HIV worldwide1 and is associated with increased risk of mortality and unsuppressed viral load.2–4 There are no…

Transforming Africa's food systems: building resilience to deliver healthy diets

Wafaie W. Fawzi

Food systems in Africa are under pressure from climate change, conflicts, health pandemics such as COVID-19 and rising food prices. The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted weaknesses in…

Effect of high-dose multivitamin supplements on alanine aminotransferase elevations among adults living with HIV on antiretroviral therapy in Tanzania

Wafaie W. Fawzi

Vol. 10, Pages 129

Background: HIV infection can cause malabsorption and rapid utilization of nutrients. A randomized trial of multivitamin supplementation among people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA)…

Experiences, acceptability and barriers to calcium supplementation during pregnancy in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Wafaie W. Fawzi

Vol. 21, Issue 1, Pages e13732

Calcium supplementation in pregnancy is recommended in contexts with low dietary calcium intake to reduce the risk of pre-eclampsia and its complications. The World Health…

Gestational weight gain at the national, regional, and income group levels based on 234 national household surveys from 70 low-income and middle-income countries

Wafaie W. Fawzi

Vol. 4, Issue 9

Gestational weight gain (GWG) estimates enable the identification of populations of women at risk for adverse outcomes. We described GWG distribution in low- and middle-income…

Expanding the food environment framework to include family dynamics: A systematic synthesis of qualitative evidence using HIV as a case study

Wafaie W. Fawzi

Vol. 42, Pages 100788

Food environment changes in low- and middle-income countries are increasing diet-related noncommunicable diseases (NCDs). This paper synthesizes the qualitative evidence about how…

Estimated timing of the first menstrual period and dietary and nutritional correlates of menarche among urban school-going adolescents in four sub-Saharan African sites

Wafaie W. Fawzi

Vol. 20, Issue 3

Characterizing the timing of menarche and the factors that are associated with it is important for understanding a population's reproductive health needs and long-term health…

School health and nutrition services for children and adolescents in Tanzania: A review of policies and programmes

Wafaie W. Fawzi

School health and nutrition programmes are effective strategies to address the health problems among school-going children and adolescents. We examined the policy environments,…

School health and nutrition environments: A multicountry survey in five countries of sub-Saharan Africa region-Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, South Africa, Sudan, and Tanzania

Wafaie W. Fawzi

Schools are increasingly regarded as a key setting for promoting the health, well-being, and development of children and adolescents. In this multicountry cross-sectional survey,…

Emotional and cognitive influences on alcohol consumption in middle-aged and elderly Tanzanians: a population-based study

Wafaie W. Fawzi

Vol. 14, Issue 1

Alcohol consumption in Tanzania exceeds the global average. While sociodemographic difference in alcohol consumption in Tanzania have been studied, the relationship between psycho…

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