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Edward A. Frongillo is affiliated with the University of South Carolina in the United States. Their research focuses primarily on medicine and health professions, with a substantial body of work in nutrition and dietetics, public health, environmental and occupational health, as well as pediatrics, perinatology, and child health.

Their scholarly output includes numerous publications in fields related to child nutrition, food security, and health equity. The main topics addressed in their research include child nutrition and water access, food security and health in diverse populations, obesity, physical activity, and diet, poverty, education and child welfare, homelessness and social issues, child nutrition and feeding issues, and global maternal and child health.

Frequent publication venues for Edward A. Frongillo include:

  • Current Developments in Nutrition
  • Journal of Nutrition
  • Maternal and Child Nutrition
  • Advances in Nutrition
  • Global Food Security

Frequently collaborating with other researchers, prominent coauthors include Christine E. Blake, Sheri D. Weiser, Sera L. Young, Lila A. Sheira, and Angela D. Liese.

Some of their recent papers are:

  • Nutrition in adolescent growth and development, 2021, The Lancet
  • Sociocultural Influences on Food Choices and Implications for Sustainable Healthy Diets, 2020, Food and Nutrition Bulletin
  • Perspective: The Importance of Water Security for Ensuring Food Security, Good Nutrition, and Well-being, 2021, Advances in Nutrition
  • Elaborating the science of food choice for rapidly changing food systems in low-and middle-income countries, 2021, Global Food Security
  • Strengthening Nutrition Interventions in Antenatal Care Services Affects Dietary Intake, Micronutrient Intake, Gestational Weight Gain, and Breastfeeding in Uttar Pradesh, India: Results of a Cluster-Randomized Program Evaluation, 2021, Journal of Nutrition

Best Publications

  • Best Practices for Developing and Validating Scales for Health, Social, and Behavioral Research: A Primer.

    Godfred O. Boateng;Torsten B. Neilands;Edward A. Frongillo;Hugo R. Melgar-Quiñonez

  • Food insufficiency and American school-aged children's cognitive, academic, and psychosocial development.

    Katherine Alaimo;Christine M. Olson;Edward A. Frongillo

  • Food insecurity affects school children's academic performance, weight gain, and social skills

    Diana F. Jyoti;Edward A. Frongillo;Sonya J. Jones

  • The effects of malnutrition on child mortality in developing countries.

    D.L. Pelletier;Edward A. Frongillo Jr.;D.G. Schroeder;J.P. Habicht

  • The who Multicentre Growth Reference Study: Planning, Study Design, and Methodology:

    Mercedes de Onis;Cutberto Garza;Cesar G. Victora;Adelheid W. Onyango

  • Is malnutrition declining? An analysis of changes in levels of child malnutrition since 1980.

    M. de Onis;E. A. Frongillo;M. Blössner

  • Measurement and standardization protocols for anthropometry used in the construction of a new international growth reference.

    Mercedes de Onis;Adelheid W Onyango;Jan Van den Broeck;Wm Cameron Chumlea

  • Food insufficiency, family income, and health in US preschool and school-aged children

    Katherine Alaimo;Christine M. Olson;Edward A. Frongillo;Ronette R. Briefel

  • The relationship between body weight and mortality : a quantitative analysis of combined information from existing studies

    Troiano Rp;Frongillo Ea;Sobal J;Levitsky Da

  • Measuring Household Food Insecurity: Why It's So Important and Yet So Difficult to Do

    Patrick Webb;Jennifer Coates;Edward A. Frongillo;Beatrice Lorge Rogers

  • Epidemiologic evidence for a potentiating effect of malnutrition on child mortality.

    D L Pelletier;E A Frongillo;J P Habicht

  • Low Nutrient Intake Is an Essential Component of Frailty in Older Persons

    Benedetta Bartali;Edward A. Frongillo;Stefania Bandinelli;Fulvio Lauretani

  • Commonalities in the Experience of Household Food Insecurity across Cultures: What Are Measures Missing?

    Jennifer Coates;Edward A. Frongillo;Beatrice Lorge Rogers;Patrick Webb

  • Family food insufficiency, but not low family income, is positively associated with dysthymia and suicide symptoms in adolescents

    Katherine Alaimo;Christine M. Olson;Edward A. Frongillo

  • Conceptual framework for understanding the bidirectional links between food insecurity and HIV/AIDS

    Sheri D Weiser;Sera L Young;Sera L Young;Craig R Cohen;Margot B Kushel

  • Food insufficiency exists in the United States: results from the third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES III).

    Katherine Alaimo;Ronette R. Briefel;Edward A. Frongillo;Christine M. Olson

  • Validation of the Radimer/Cornell measures of hunger and food insecurity.

    Anne Kendall;Christine M. Olson;Edward A. Frongillo

  • Validation of Measures of Food Insecurity and Hunger

    Edward A. Frongillo

  • Changes in child survival are strongly associated with changes in malnutrition in developing countries.

    David L. Pelletier;Edward A. Frongillo

  • Construction of the World Health Organization child growth standards: selection of methods for attained growth curves.

    E. Borghi;M. de Onis;C. Garza;J. Van den Broeck

Frequent Co-Authors

Phuong H. Nguyen
Phuong H. Nguyen Eindhoven University of Technology
Shams El Arifeen
Shams El Arifeen International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research
Phyllis C. Tien
Phyllis C. Tien University of California, San Francisco
Lars Åke Persson
Lars Åke Persson London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
David R. Bangsberg
David R. Bangsberg Simon Fraser University
Jeffery Sobal
Jeffery Sobal Cornell University
Adaora A. Adimora
Adaora A. Adimora University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Mardge H. Cohen
Mardge H. Cohen Rush University
Tracey E. Wilson
Tracey E. Wilson SUNY Downstate Medical Center
Janet M. Turan
Janet M. Turan University of Alabama at Birmingham

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