Emergency Nutrition
Network (ENN):
How we partner on research
Who We Are
ENN is recognised globally as an independent thought leader, convener, and trusted influencer in nutrition.
Our vision is that every individual confronted bymalnutrition has access to the knowledge, tools,services, and resources they require to meet theirneeds. Through our collaborations we support
practitioners to access, generate and amplify

know-how to rapidly improve policy and practice.
Established in 1996, we are a UK-registered charity
with an experienced team of over 25 technicaland operational staff and a range of specialist
associates who work globally.

Our Research Partnerships
Our research partners include a range of universities and other institutions with research interests,including national authorities, NGOs, and UN agencies.
We are committed to broadening and deepening
our research collaborations and we particularly
wish to support the increased localisation ofresearch by establishing more partnerships
in countries affected by a high burden ofundernutrition. Our research engagement
principles and practices are grounded in fair andcollaborative partnerships to co-create evidence,
ensure representative authorship, recogniseeach partner’s full contributions, and maintainan emphasis on open access research outputs.
Our partnerships range from wide networks ofresearchers participating in our special interest
groups (for instance, a study protocol with theWasting & Stunting Technical Interest Group
bringing new evidence on undernutrition andmortality) to more focused collaborations forspecific research questions (for instance, ourcurrent partnership with the London School ofHygiene & Tropical Medicine, Jimma University
in Ethiopia and GOAL to test an integrated carepathway model within existing health services forsmall and nutritionally at-risk infants under six
months and their mothers).
1Our Support Across the Research Cycle
01/ Research design• Participate in and convene expert technical groups at globaland country level• Co-develop protocols and contribute data, knowledge andnetworks to help design fit-for-purpose research• Pursue national representation on global research and policy fora
• Co-supervise Master programmes dissertations and support
their publication

02/ Implementation• Advise research partners within our technical specialties• Committed to conducting, prompting and publishing
implementation research• Provide creative opportunities for researchers to co-create
and implement research of global relevance and impact

03/ Research uptake• Engage directly and consistently with national and international
policy-makers to broker evidence to policy decision-making• Support research partners to capture and widely disseminate
research findings• Produce media content to improve research uptake• Co-author peer-reviewed publications, commentaries, technicaland policy briefs• Synthesise research and relay study findings to a global networkof practitioners and policymakers

04/ Reflection and learning• Embed periodic learning and reflection within our researchareas to document and share lessons learned from research
partnerships and process2Our Technical Specialisms
Our research currently spans the following topics, amongst many others:• The management of small and nutritionallyat-risk infants under six months andtheir mothers (MAMI)• Women’s nutrition• School-age children and adolescent nutrition• Infant Feeding in Emergencies (IFE)• The relationship between
wasting and stunting (WaSt)• Food systems and climate change

See our publications library, with the following recent examples
Stunting in the first year of life: Pathway analysis of a birth cohort. PLoS Global Public Health, 2024.
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgph.0002908
Invisible pursuit: global policy guidance on care of vulnerable infants under 6 months and their mothers,a scoping review. ENN, 2024. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.25289917.v1
Multiple Micronutrient Supplements in Humanitarian Emergencies: A State of Play Report. ENN, 2024.
https://www.ennonline.net/multiple-micronutrient-supplements-in-humanitarian-emergencies
Exploring new, evolving and neglected topics at the intersection of food systems, climate change andnutrition: a literature review. ENN, 2024. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.25112246
Research priorities for nutrition of school-aged children and adolescents in low- and middle-income
countries. PLoS ONE, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0280510
Anthropometric criteria for best-identifying children at high risk of mortality: a pooled analysis of twelve
cohorts. Public Health Nutrition, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1017/S136898002300023X
Towards standardised and valid anthropometric indicators for adolescents. Lancet Child and Adolescent
Health, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2352-4642(22)00196-1
Women’s nutrition: A summary of evidence, policy and practice including adolescent and maternal life
stages. ENN, 2022. https://www.ennonline.net/womensnutritionasummarytechnicalbriefingpaper
Strategies and interventions for healthy adolescent growth, nutrition, and development. Lancet, 2021.
https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(21)01593-2
The relationship between wasting and stunting in young children: A systematic review. Maternal andChild Nutrition, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1111/mcn.13246
Story of change: ENN’s role in Knowledge Management related to the Scaling Up Nutrition Movement.
ENN, 2020. https://www.ennonline.net/storyofchangesunkm
The relationship between wasting and stunting: a retrospective cohort analysis of longitudinal
data in Gambian children from 1976 to 2016. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 2019.
https://doi.org/10.1093/ajcn/nqy326
ENN hosts the Infant and Young Child Feeding in Emergencies Research Repository:
https://www.ennonline.net/ife/iycferepository3

Research Dissemination
To help the international community to strengthen nutrition policy and programming, we offer thefollowing free publications and resource platforms to share evidence, experiences and learning.
These not only offer research staff and students a range of resources for immediate use but also represent
the ways that ENN showcases ongoing research to a wide audience.

In 2023:
Get involved
Field Exchange Publication
Our flagship technical publication
containing detailed field articles,
research and evaluations on nutrition inemergency and high burden contexts.
Published in print and available online.

• Submit research articles and MSc.
thesis summaries• Submit summaries of existing research

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reached• Real life case studies• Use our case studies to teach• Submit news and events to share• Insight into programming
innovations and challenges toinform research needs• Mentoring and editorial support tohelp authors reflect and write• Encourage your partners to shareexperiences of nutrition programming• Subscribe to our newsletters

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Media Hub & Webinars
Our online media platform hosts blogs,
podcasts and videos which complement
our written publications by providing
a space for reflections, interviews
and updates.

• Contact us to collaborate on podcasts,
videos, blogs and webinars thatshowcase your research
Webinars

Writtenpublications• Media Hub brings to life theperspectives of our publication authors
and network partners• We deliver webinars to support
learning and research dissemination• Encourage your staff and students
to browse our library and listen to awide variety of stakeholders sharing
their experiences

Videos andpodcasts

Get involved
en-netWe provide vital ‘real-time’ technicaladvice to programme implementersand researchers through our online
platform, en-net, linking people to an
extensive network of peers and experts.

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responsescountries• Available in English and French• Gain inputs into emerging researchtheories and substantiate ideas byhearing about practical experiences
and urgent challenges on the ground• Link an en-net discussion topic to theresearch you have published• Share the platform with regionaland national institutions you
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new users

4• Encourage your staff to contribute
their expert peer support in response
to urgent questions

Networks and Convening
Our independence and neutrality position us well to convene and coordinate several international expert
groups involving the most experienced practitioners and academics.
Examples include:• The management of small and nutritionally at-risk infants under six months and their mothers (MAMI)
Global Network, (584 members)• The Infant Feeding in Emergencies (IFE) Core Group, (87 members, both individuals and organisations)• The Wasting and Stunting Technical Interest Group, (43 members)• The Global Adolescent Nutrition Network (106 members)
We regularly offer our technical expertise to strengthen the activities of organisations working to reduce
malnutrition globally. For example, we contribute as a technical expert in World Health Organization guidancedevelopment, and we share our work in the Global Nutrition Report. ENN is a core team member of the Global
Nutrition Cluster, overseeing and actively participating in several expert Global Thematic Working Groups.

Find out more
For more information about ENN’s collaboration with research partners, please contact us onoffice@ennonline.net
For more information on any aspects of our work and to access our publications and networks connect
with us at www.ennonline.net, LinkedIn @Emergency Nutrition Network (ENN),
Facebook @Emergency Nutrition Network, or Twitter @ENNOnline.
ENN is a UK registered charity (reg. no. 1115156) and a company limited by guarantee and governed by a board of trustees.

5Our Impact
We prioritise evidence-based research that drives
practical solutions for people working in nutritional
emergencies. Some examples of how our work has
impacted policy and programming include:The
development
and subsequentglobal adoption of thefirst internationally agreed
operational guidance on how
to support infant and young childfeeding in humanitarian crisis
situations, endorsed by theWorld Health Assemblyin 2010 and again in2018.

Our research prioritisation
exercises using the Child
Health & Nutrition Research
Initiative (CHNRI) approach
include wasting prevention, acutemalnutrition research, managementof wasting in infants undersix months and nutrition ofschool-aged children andadolescents.

“Knowledge basedlearnings from [the FieldExchange] magazine is very
helpful to develop nuanced
programming to address issues
related to child nutrition.”
Associate General Manager,
Child Rights and You,New Delhi, India

The collection anddissemination of researchand programming experiencesof community-based managementof acute malnutrition (CMAM)
helped to catalyse acceptanceof this innovative, life-saving
approach.
Our research has led
to increasing recognition
among internationalorganisations that children who
suffer from concurrent wastingand stunting are particularly
vulnerable and require
attention.

Our co-creative
partnership with theLondon School of Hygiene& Tropical Medicine, Jimma
University (Ethiopia) and GOAL,
testing strategies to ensure
access to community-based carefor small/nutritionally at-risk
infants under six months
and their mothers.

“A relatively small but highly
effective agency which ‘punches
way above its weight’, ENN is
widely viewed as a fair and impartial
mediator allowing difficult issues
to be constructively explored.”
Academic researcher

6Our TeamSee ENN’s website for wider teamprofiles. Our technical team working
on research portfolios includes:

Marie McGrath, ENN Technical Director.
ORCID: 0000-0002-0660-1873
Marie has worked in international nutrition
for 28 years. With a background in paediatricdietetics and humanitarian programming,
she has been with ENN for 22 years and isa part-time PhD student at LSHTM. Her
specialities are at-risk infants, implementation
research and technical brokerage.

Natalie Sessions, Senior Nutritionist
Natalie was responsible for the global
coordination of ENN’s Knowledge Management
work for the Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN)Movement. She has particular interest in
wasting and stunting, the humanitarian anddevelopment nexus of nutrition programmingand in situating nutrition within the broader
humanitarian and development landscape.

Tanya Khara, ENN Technical Director.
ORCID: 0000-0002-6251-0052
Tanya joined ENN in 2017 bringing with her
more than 20 years’ experience working on
nutrition programming, policy, and research.
She is ENN’s technical lead on the relationshipbetween wasting and stunting.

Anne Gitari, Senior Nutritionist
Anne joined ENN in April 2024 and works acrossdifferent projects within ENN’s portfolio, hermain focus being support to the GNC. She brings
over 12 years’ experience working in CMAM
programming with different organisations acrossseveral country programmes. Anne has an MPH(Human Nutrition) from Moi University, Kenya.

Dr Philip James, Senior Technical Associate.
ORCID: 0000-0001-5448-8193
Since 2003, Philip has split his time between
humanitarian and academic work in thematernal and child nutrition field. He holds
a PhD and MSc. in Public Health Nutrition
from LSHTM where his research focussed
on the prevention of undernutrition. Philip’s
specialities include maternal and childnutrition and micronutrient deficiencies.

Amir Samnani, Nutritionist.
ORCID: 0000-0003-3997-952X
Amir is an experienced nutritionist who has
been with ENN since September 2022. He
has expertise in maternal, child and adolescenthealth and nutrition. He joined ENN witha wealth of experience in public healthdepartments, the UN and international NGOs.

Nicki Connell, Senior Technical Associate
Nicki is the Co-Editor of ENN’s publication FieldExchange and brings over 16 years’ experienceto this role. In 2019, Nicki was recognised for her
efforts in the nutrition sector by being awarded
an MBE for services to emergency nutrition
crises abroad. Key technical areas of interest to
Nicki include MAMI, IYCF-E and CMAM.

Dima Ousta, IFE Core Group Coordinator
Dima has over 15 years' experience working
in emergency and non-emergency contexts
in low-, middle- and high-income countries.
Dima’s interests are in supporting infant
and young child feeding in emergencies andjoined ENN in September 2023 as the IFECore Group Coordinator. She has an MSc in
Nutrition from McGill University.

Dr Natasha Lelijveld, Senior Nutritionist.
ORCID: 0000-0002-8452-0198
Natasha completed her PhD at University
College London where her research considered
the long-term effects of severe acutemalnutrition in Malawi. She also then taught
the “Nutrition in Emergencies” course for
Master’s students at the University ofSouthampton. At ENN, Natasha focuses onadolescent nutrition, and child wasting.

Rachael Menezes, Nutritionist.
ORCID: 0000-0002-8596-4153
Rachael joined ENN in 2020. She previously
coordinated Public Health England fundedStart4Life intervention for pregnant
women across London. More recently, she
has supported nutrition programmes forearthquake survivors led by local NGOs in theAtlas Mountains, Morocco. Her current focus
at ENN is on IFE and MAMI.

Thomas Stubbs, Field Exchange Sub-Editorand Content Coordinator.
Tom works across ENN’s Field Exchange
portfolio. Prior to joining ENN, he worked asa nutrition consultant for a multidisciplinary
healthcare clinic in the UK and spent timeworking on FCDO-funded development
projects in Nigeria and South Africa. He holds
an MSc(MedSci) in Human Nutrition, as wellas an MSc in Epidemiology.

We also draw on our pool of highly
experienced research consultants tocomplement the specialisms, skills andknowledge of our team.