Christopher Duggan

About

Christopher Duggan, M.D., M.P.H., is a Samuel Meltzer, MD Professor of Pediatrics in the Field of Gastroenterology at the Department of Pediatrics, as well as a Professor of Nutrition and Global Health and Population at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He has been performing clinical trials in pediatric nutrition, gastroenterology, and global health for the past 25 years. His research includes evaluating the efficacy of micronutrient supplementation in infants and young children born to women with or at risk of HIV infection, with nearly 5,000 infants recruited in urban Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Recent studies involve the development of new biomarkers of environmental enteric dysfunction and the assessment of nutritional status on neurodevelopment. Dr. Duggan's research support has been provided by the National Institutes of Health, the Gates Foundation, and the World Health Organization. He is a pediatric gastroenterologist and nutrition physician at Boston Children's Hospital, where he directs the Center for Nutrition and serves as Medical Director of the Center for Advanced Intestinal Rehabilitation, one of the largest centers in the US for children with intestinal failure and chronic diarrhea syndromes. Dr. Duggan also co-directs the Harvard College course 'Nutrition and Global Health' and mentors students at Harvard Medical School and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. His international engagements include being an adjunct professor at St John’s…

Research topics

• Medicine
• Biology
• Internal medicine
• Sociology
• Demography
• Environmental health
• Pediatrics
• Physiology
• Ecology
• Economics

Selected publications

• Small vulnerable newborns—big potential for impact

  The Lancet · 2023 · 206 citations

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• Child wasting and concurrent stunting in low- and middle-income countries

  Nature · 2023 · 103 citations

  . Prevailing methods to measure wasting rely on cross-sectional surveys that cannot measure onset, recovery and persistence-key features that inform preventive interventions and estimates of disease burden. Here we analyse 21 longitudinal cohorts and show that wasting is a highly dynamic process of onset and recovery, with incidence peaking between birth and 3 months. Many more children experience an episode of wasting at some point during their first 24 months than prevalent cases at a single p…

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• Maternal dietary diversity and dietary quality scores in relation to adverse birth outcomes in Tanzanian women

  American Journal of Clinical Nutrition · 2020 · 84 citations

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• Predictors of low birth weight and preterm birth in rural Uganda: Findings from a birth cohort study

  PLoS ONE · 2020 · 81 citations

  Senior authorCorresponding

  BACKGROUND: Approximately 20.5 million infants were born weighing <2500 g (defined as low birthweight or LBW) in 2015, primarily in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Infants born LBW, including those born preterm (<37 weeks gestation), are at increased risk for numerous consequences, including neonatal mortality and morbidity as well as suboptimal health and nutritional status later in life. The objective of this study was to identify predictors of LBW and preterm birth among infants in…

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• Markers of Environmental Enteric Dysfunction Are Associated with Poor Growth and Iron Status in Rural Ugandan Infants

  Journal of Nutrition · 2020 · 35 citations

  Senior authorCorresponding
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Recent grants

• NIH Grant R03HD052143

  NIH · $167k · 2011

• Boston Area Nutrition Obesity Research Center (NORC)

  NIH · $13.2M · 1997–2027

• Training Grant in Academic Nutrition

  NIH · $8.4M · 1994–2030

Frequent coauthors

• Wafaie Fawzi

  Harvard University

  346 shared

• Karim Manji

  Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences

  205 shared

• Lori J. Bechard

  Boston Children's Hospital

  199 shared

• Tom Jaksic

  166 shared

• Rodrick Kisenge

  Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences

  148 shared

• Said Aboud

  National Institute for Medical Research

  142 shared

• Christopher R. Sudfeld

  Harvard University

  138 shared

• Enju Liu

  103 shared

Awards & honors

• Physician Nutrition Specialist Award from the American Socie…
• Fomon Nutrition Award from the American Academy of Pediatric…

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