Nutrition & Public Health
Research, analysis, and field reports on nutrition and public health challenges across Kenya.
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.
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.
Why Kenya's stunting rate has stalled at one in five, what's missing from the standard playbook, and the cross-sectoral policy moves that would actually shift the curve.
Why iron supplements alone don't solve maternal anaemia in Kenya — and what the ANC conversation should actually cover. A clinical and policy view from a Kenyan nutritionist.