Nutrition & Public Health
Research, analysis, and field reports on nutrition and public health challenges across Kenya.
The most-evidenced window in maternal and child health hasn't moved Kenya's stunting curve as much as it should. A view from both the clinical bedside and the partnerships desk on why — and what the next decade needs.
Kenya doesn't have a food security strategy — it has a relief reflex. The three pillars of real climate adaptation, what's in the way, and the trade we keep failing to make.
The standard postpartum nutrition guidance is technically correct and practically insufficient. What real Kenyan postpartum recovery actually requires — and where the curriculum falls short.
A fictional but specific letter from a Kenyan partnerships director to a large nutrition donor — saying the parts the polite quarterly meetings leave out about funding cycles, attribution, and the field's biggest gap.
Kenya has 4–5 million camels and a public-health asset hiding in plain sight. Why camel milk doesn't reach most Kenyans, and the integrated investment that would change that.
A consolidated look at Kenya's ~KSh 28–38 billion nutrition spend — where it goes, what it misses, and the reallocations that would shift outcomes without growing the total.
What separates the school feeding programmes that move learning and nutrition outcomes from the ones that just deliver a photo-op. Six factors, five fixes, and what better policy would do.
An origin story for a small private nutrition practice in Nairobi — the mistakes of the first six months, the reset, and what it taught me about teaching nutrition outside a clinic.
Most weight and diet problems in Nairobi are sleep-and-stress problems with food downstream. The biology, the loop, and a two-week reset that targets the upstream entry points first.
Why your grocery receipt disagrees with the official inflation rate, who actually absorbs the shock, what drives Kenyan food prices, and the policy conversation we should be having.
African indigenous vegetables are back on the Nairobi shelf — and now cost more than sukuma. The science, the comeback story, who profited, and the public-health policy moves still missing.
An honest career guide for nutrition students in Kenya — degrees, KNDI registration, where the jobs actually are, the salary reality, and the seven paths a graduate can take.
What's actually happening to your body the morning after, why the kibanda soup is partly right, and the supposed remedies that don't work. A nutritionist's no-judgement guide.
Kenya is Africa's largest avocado exporter. Smallholder farmers are earning more — and their grandchildren eat less of the fruit. A nutritionist's take on the boom, the asymmetry, and the policy fixes.
Between the under-five window and antenatal care lies a 15-year nutritional silence. Why adolescent-girl nutrition is Kenya's quietest gap — and the highest-leverage intervention nobody is pitching.
