Dr. Andrew Prentice
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Andrew Andrew Prentice

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MRC International Nutrition Group, London School of Hygiene & Tropical  Medicine and MRC Keneba, The Gambia (Director)

Leads a large research team focused on discovery science directed towards developing next-generation nutritional interventions in the world’s poorest peoples, especially those in Sub-Saharan Africa. 

Has over 300 peer-reviewed publications with an H-index of 85. 

Has been on numerous national and international advisory bodies and his research has been recognized by a number of national and international science awards.

Current interests: personal current obsessions relate to iron, infection and anemia, and the role of a mother’s peri-conceptional nutrition in modifying the epigenome of her offspring.

Publications

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Nutrition in school-age children: a rationale for revisiting priorities

Middle childhood and early adolescence have received disproportionately low levels of scientific attention relative to other life stages, especially as related to nutrition and health. This review highlights the specificities of growth and development in school age, with a focus on middle childhood and early adolescence (5 years–15 years of age, for the purposes of this review), the role of nutrition, the short- and long-term consequences of inadequate nutrition, and the current global status of nutrition in this age group.

3 min read Jose M. Saavedra (USA), Dr. Andrew Prentice
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Annales 79.2 - Children‘s Diets in a Changing World

The world has gone through immense and rapid changes, and this has affected how we nourish and care for our children. While nutrition has improved overall, new challenges continue to arise, like the hike in childhood obesity, overlapping nutrition problems, and climate change that threatens food security. These issues, and possible interventions, such as support for breastfeeding and a collaborative approach in different sectors are discussed more thoroughly in this edition of Annales.

1 min read Dr. Andrew Prentice, Banjul/London
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Annales 78.2 - Gut Microbiota: No Longer the Forgotten Organ

While the gut microbiota was once called “the forgotten organ”, it is no longer forgotten. On the contrary, it is a hot topic for research, as documented by the rapidly increasing number of scientific papers on this subject as well as coverage in the lay press,

1 min read Professor Hania Szajewska, Dr. Andrew Prentice, R. Shamir
Annales 77.3 - Vitamin D: From Gestation to Adolescence in Health and Disease (publications)
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Annales 77.3 - Vitamin D: From Gestation to Adolescence in Health and Disease

Vitamin D is a prohormone absorbed from food sources or supplements and also synthesized in the skin following exposure to ultraviolet light. Few foods naturally contain vitamin D.

1 min read Carlos Lifschitz, Jatinder Bhatia, Weili Lin,

Videos

The Triple Burden of Malnutrition in the Era of Globalization
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NNIW97: The Triple Burden of Malnutrition in the Era of Globalization – Andrew Prentice

Now is the time to look into one of the biggest health problems in our world today—malnutrition. With a remarkable discussion from Dr. Andrew Prentice, let's learn about the definition of the Triple Burden, its fundamental origins, as well as their many interlinking factors, in order to investigate the primary causes of this complex and urgent concern in the era of globalization.

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NNIW95: Growth faltering: Underweight and stunting (videos)
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NNIW95: Growth faltering: Underweight and stunting

The great majority of attention on growth faltering concentrates on the first ‘1000 days’ with a much lesser focus on toddlers and young pre-schoolers.

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Interview with Andrew Prentice: What are the barriers to child growth and development? (videos)
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Interview with Andrew Prentice: What are the barriers to child growth and development?
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Environmental and physiological barriers to child growth and development (videos)
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Environmental and physiological barriers to child growth and development
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The Contribution of Nutritional and Ancillary Factors in Breast Milk to Infant Growth and Development in Low-income Countries (videos)
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The Contribution of Nutritional and Ancillary Factors in Breast Milk to Infant Growth and Development in Low-income Countries

In developing countries like Gambia, the breast feeding rates are close 100%. The few mothers that do not breastfeed cannot do to an injury, for example.

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Human Milk Oligosaccharides and Health of Infants in Africa (videos)
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Human Milk Oligosaccharides and Health of Infants in Africa

Research in recent years has demonstrated that HMOs play a contributory role in protecting infants from disease in developing countries – the evidence is rudimentary, according to

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Importance of Nutrition Before and During the First 1,000 Days (videos)
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Importance of Nutrition Before and During the First 1,000 Days

The ‘First 1,000 Days’ – the period from conception to 2 years of age – has been adopted as a highly effective focal point to concentrate global efforts to combat malnutrition.

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The Importance of Nutrition Throughout the Lifecycle (videos)
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The Importance of Nutrition Throughout the Lifecycle

It has been estimated that it requires 47 differentiating cell cycles to make a human being and that 45 of these occur before the baby emerges from

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Nutritional Biomarkers in Global Public Health
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Nutritional Biomarkers in Global Public Health

Nutritional biomarkers are required for population surveillance, clinical interventions and discovery science. The global public health burden of

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Nutrition Challenges and Issues of Relevance to Adolescents in Low and Middle Income Countries

Pregnancies in girls aged less than 18 years are associated with significant morbidity. Although only 1-in-10 of all births are adolescent births,

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Strategies to Prevent Iron Deficiency in Developing and Developed Countries

Iron deficiency in utero and in the first post-natal years can have long-term effects on children’s development especially in relation to brain growth

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Nutrition and Chronic Disease
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Nutrition and Chronic Disease

Human physiology has been molded over the millennia by famine. From these origins, human biochemistry and metabolism are therefore ill-equipped to

Prof. Anna Nowak-Węgrzyn, Dr. Andrew Prentice

Expert opinions

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Micronutrient supplementation in children and adolescents in low and middle income countries

Micronutrients are a group of nutrients that include macrominerals (such as calcium), trace minerals (such as iron and zinc), and vitamins. The ‘micro’ in the name does not refer to their size but to the small amounts required by the body.

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