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Overview

Lia C. H. Fernald is affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley in the United States. Their research spans multiple aspects of medicine and nursing, with a strong focus on child nutrition, developmental health, and public health practices related to maternal and child welfare.

Their key fields of study include:

  • Medicine
  • Nursing

Within these broad fields, the subfields of study they contribute to are:

  • Nutrition and Dietetics
  • Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health
  • General Health Professions
  • Psychiatry and Mental Health
  • Safety Research

Fernald's work particularly addresses topics such as:

  • Child Nutrition and Water Access
  • Child Nutrition and Feeding Issues
  • Global Maternal and Child Health
  • Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
  • Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations
  • Infant Development and Preterm Care
  • Birth, Development, and Health

Their publication record includes recent papers that focus on child development interventions, nutritional supplementation, and health service delivery. Notable recent works include:

  • Group-based parenting interventions to promote child development in rural Kenya: a multi-arm, cluster-randomised community effectiveness trial (2020, The Lancet Global Health)
  • Characteristics that modify the effect of small-quantity lipid-based nutrient supplementation on child growth: an individual participant data meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials (2021, American Journal of Clinical Nutrition)
  • Using mHealth to improve health care delivery in India: A qualitative examination of the perspectives of community health workers and beneficiaries (2020, PLoS ONE)
  • Father involvement and early child development in a low-resource setting (2022, Social Science & Medicine)
  • Small-quantity lipid-based nutrient supplements for children age 6-24 months: a systematic review and individual participant data meta-analysis of effects on developmental outcomes and effect modifiers (2021, American Journal of Clinical Nutrition)

Frequently collaborating with other researchers, Fernald often works alongside:

  • Stephen P. Luby
  • Mahbubur Rahman
  • Christine P. Stewart
  • Helen O. Pitchik
  • Benjamin F. Arnold

They publish regularly in a variety of journals, with frequent appearances in:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Current Developments in Nutrition
  • BMC Public Health
  • American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

Fernald has also contributed to book publications, including works published by World Bank, Washington, DC eBooks, with a title called Big Sisters (2020), and Elsevier BV, where they published Enhancing Young Children's Language Acquisition through Parent-Child Book-Sharing: A Randomized Trial in Rural Kenya (2020).

Best Publications

  • Early childhood development coming of age: science through the life course

    Maureen M Black;Maureen M Black;Susan P Walker;Lia C H Fernald;Christopher T Andersen

  • Nurturing care: promoting early childhood development

    Pia R Britto;Stephen J Lye;Kerrie Proulx;Aisha K Yousafzai

  • Strategies for reducing inequalities and improving developmental outcomes for young children in low-income and middle-income countries

    Patrice L. Engle;Lia C. H. Fernald;Harold Alderman;Jere Behrman

  • Role of cash in conditional cash transfer programmes for child health, growth, and development: an analysis of Mexico's Oportunidades

    Lia C H Fernald;Paul J Gertler;Lynnette M Neufeld

  • Effects of water quality, sanitation, handwashing, and nutritional interventions on diarrhoea and child growth in rural Bangladesh: a cluster randomised controlled trial.

    Stephen P Luby;Mahbubur Rahman;Benjamin F Arnold;Leanne Unicomb

  • Effects of water quality, sanitation, handwashing, and nutritional interventions on diarrhoea and child growth in rural Kenya: a cluster-randomised controlled trial

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  • Benefits of wildlife consumption to child nutrition in a biodiversity hotspot

    Christopher D. Golden;Lia C. F. Fernald;Justin S. Brashares;B. J. Rasolofoniaina

  • 10-year effect of Oportunidades, Mexico's conditional cash transfer programme, on child growth, cognition, language, and behaviour: a longitudinal follow-up study

    Lia C H Fernald;Paul J Gertler;Lynnette M Neufeld

  • Effects of integrated child development and nutrition interventions on child development and nutritional status.

    Sally M. Grantham-McGregor;Lia C. H. Fernald;Rose M. C. Kagawa;Susan Walker

  • Overweight with concurrent stunting in very young children from rural Mexico: prevalence and associated factors

    L C Fernald;L M Neufeld

  • Cluster-randomised controlled trials of individual and combined water, sanitation, hygiene and nutritional interventions in rural Bangladesh and Kenya: the WASH Benefits study design and rationale.

    Benjamin F. Arnold;Clair Null;Clair Null;Stephen Patrick Luby;Leanne Unicomb

  • Cash transfers and domestic violence.

    Melissa Hidrobo;Lia Fernald

  • Examining Early Child Development in Low-Income Countries

    Lia C. H. Fernald;Patricia Kariger;Patrice Engle;Abbie Raikes

  • Socioeconomic gradients and child development in a very low income population: evidence from Madagascar.

    Lia C.H. Fernald;Ann Weber;Emanuela Galasso;Lisy Ratsifandrihamanana

  • Poverty-alleviation program participation and salivary cortisol in very low-income children

    Lia C.H. Fernald;Megan R. Gunnar

  • Socioeconomic gradients in child development in very young children: Evidence from India, Indonesia, Peru, and Senegal

    Lia C. H. Fernald;Patricia Kariger;Melissa Hidrobo;Paul J. Gertler

  • Social and economic correlates of depressive symptoms and perceived stress in South African adults

    R Hamad;L C H Fernald;D S Karlan;J Zinman

  • Investment in child and adolescent health and development: key messages from Disease Control Priorities, 3rd Edition

    Donald A P Bundy;Nilanthi de Silva;Susan Horton;George C Patton

  • A toolkit for measuring early childhood development in low and middle income countries

    Lia C. H. Fernald;Elizabeth Leah Prado;Patricia Karol Kariger;Abbie Raikes

  • Examining early child development in low-income countries : a toolkit for the assessment of children in the first five years of life

    Lia C. H. Fernald;Patricia Kariger;Patrice Engle;Abbie Raikes

  • Effects of Health and Nutrition on Cognitive and Behavioural Development in Children in the First Three Years of Life. Part 1: Low Birthweight, Breastfeeding, and Protein-Energy Malnutrition

    Sally M. Grantham-McGregor;Lia C. Fernald;Kavita Sethuraman

  • Socio-economic status and body mass index in low-income Mexican adults

    Lia C.H. Fernald

Frequent Co-Authors

Emily J. Ozer
Emily J. Ozer University of California, Berkeley
Sylvia Guendelman
Sylvia Guendelman University of California, Berkeley
Nancy E. Adler
Nancy E. Adler University of California, San Francisco
Maureen M. Black
Maureen M. Black University of Maryland, Baltimore
Peter J. Winch
Peter J. Winch Johns Hopkins University
Sera L. Young
Sera L. Young Northwestern University
Patrice L. Engle
Patrice L. Engle California Polytechnic State University
Günther Fink
Günther Fink Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute
David H. Rehkopf
David H. Rehkopf Stanford University
Brenda Eskenazi
Brenda Eskenazi University of California, Berkeley

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