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Sally Grantham-McGregor

Sally Grantham-McGregor

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41366
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1411

Overview

Sally Grantham-McGregor is affiliated with University College London in the United Kingdom. Their research work spans primarily in the fields of Medicine and Nursing, with notable focus on subfields such as Nutrition and Dietetics, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Education, Psychiatry and Mental Health, and Safety Research.

Their main research topics include:

  • Child Nutrition and Water Access
  • Infant Development and Preterm Care
  • Early Childhood Education and Development
  • Child Nutrition and Feeding Issues
  • Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
  • Global Maternal and Child Health
  • COVID-19 Impact on Reproduction

Recent papers associated with their work include:

  • "Immediate impact of stay-at-home orders to control COVID-19 transmission on socioeconomic conditions, food insecurity, mental health, and intimate partner violence in Bangladeshi women and their families: an interrupted time series" (2020, The Lancet Global Health)
  • "Group Sessions or Home Visits for Early Childhood Development in India: A Cluster RCT" (2020, PEDIATRICS)
  • "Cognitive, psychosocial, and behaviour gains at age 31 years from the Jamaica early childhood stimulation trial" (2021, Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry)
  • "Benefits and Risks of Iron Interventions in Infants in Rural Bangladesh" (2021, New England Journal of Medicine)
  • "Home visiting at scale and child development" (2021, Journal of Public Economics Plus)

Frequent coauthors in their publications include:

  • Jena Hamadani
  • Marta Rubio-Codina
  • Susan Walker
  • Mohammed Imrul Hasan
  • Shamima Shiraji

They publish regularly in the journal PEDIATRICS, with six publications, and have multiple contributions to OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) from La Trobe University. Other venues include PLoS ONE, SSRN Electronic Journal, and Research Square.

In book publications, they authored a work titled "Effect of the Jamaica Early Childhood Stimulation Intervention on Labor Market Outcomes at Age 31," published by World Bank, Washington, DC eBooks in 2021.

Best Publications

  • Maternal and child undernutrition and overweight in low-income and middle-income countries

    Robert E Black;Cesar G. Victora;Susan P. Walker;Zulfiqar A. Bhutta

  • Developmental potential in the first 5 years for children in developing countries

    Sally Grantham-McGregor;Yin Bun Cheung;Santiago Cueto;Paul Glewwe

  • 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

  • Inequality in early childhood: risk and protective factors for early child development

    Susan P Walker;Theodore D Wachs;Sally Grantham-McGregor;Maureen M Black

  • A Review of Studies on the Effect of Iron Deficiency on Cognitive Development in Children

    Sally Grantham-McGregor;Cornelius Ani

  • Labor Market Returns to an Early Childhood Stimulation Intervention in Jamaica

    Paul Gertler;Paul Gertler;James Heckman;Rodrigo Pinto;Arianna Zanolini

  • Nutritional supplementation, psychosocial stimulation, and mental development of stunted children: the Jamaican Study

    S.M Grantham-McGregor;C.A Powell;S.P Walker;J.H Himes

  • Effects of early childhood psychosocial stimulation and nutritional supplementation on cognition and education in growth-stunted Jamaican children: prospective cohort study

    Susan P Walker;Susan M Chang;Christine A Powell;Sally M Grantham-McGregor

  • A Review of Studies of the Effect of Severe Malnutrition on Mental Development

    Sally Grantham-McGregor

  • Immediate impact of stay-at-home orders to control COVID-19 transmission on socioeconomic conditions, food insecurity, mental health, and intimate partner violence in Bangladeshi women and their families: an interrupted time series.

    Jena Derakhshani Hamadani;Mohammed Imrul Hasan;Andrew J Baldi;Andrew J Baldi;Sheikh Jamal Hossain

  • Early Childhood Stimulation Benefits Adult Competence and Reduces Violent Behavior

    Susan P. Walker;Susan M. Chang;Marcos Vera-Hernández;Sally Grantham-McGregor

  • Nutrition and education: a randomized trial of the effects of breakfast in rural primary school children

    C A Powell;S P Walker;S M Chang;S M Grantham-McGregor

  • Effects of missing breakfast on the cognitive functions of school children of differing nutritional status.

    D T Simeon;S Grantham-McGregor

  • Moderate to heavy infections of Trichuris trichiura affect cognitive function in Jamaican school children.

    C. Nokes;S. M. Grantham-McGregor;A. W. Sawyer;E. S. Cooper

  • Psychological well-being of orphans in Dar El Salaam, Tanzania

    V Makame;C Ani;S Grantham-McGregor

  • Effects of early childhood supplementation with and without stimulation on later development in stunted Jamaican children.

    Sally M Grantham-McGregor;Susan P Walker;Susan M Chang;Christine A Powell

  • 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

  • Early childhood stunting is associated with poor psychological functioning in late adolescence and effects are reduced by psychosocial stimulation.

    Susan P. Walker;Susan M. Chang;Christine A. Powell;Emily Simonoff

  • Parasitic Helminth Infection and Cognitive Function in School Children

    C. Nokes;S. M. Grantham-Mcgregor;A. W. Sawyer;E. S. Cooper

  • Using the infrastructure of a conditional cash transfer program to deliver a scalable integrated early child development program in Colombia : cluster randomized controlled trial

    Orazio P. Attanasio;Jeremy Bentham;Camila Fernández;Emla O.A. Fitzsimons

Frequent Co-Authors

Orazio Attanasio
Orazio Attanasio Yale University
Costas Meghir
Costas Meghir Yale University
Lia C. H. Fernald
Lia C. H. Fernald University of California, Berkeley
James J. Heckman
James J. Heckman University of Chicago
Paul J. Gertler
Paul J. Gertler University of California, Berkeley
Theodore D. Wachs
Theodore D. Wachs Purdue University West Lafayette
Maureen M. Black
Maureen M. Black University of Maryland, Baltimore
Lars Åke Persson
Lars Åke Persson London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Linda Richter
Linda Richter University of the Witwatersrand
Terrence Forrester
Terrence Forrester University of the West Indies

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