Conference Programme
Concise Programme
Concise Programme
THURSDAY 7TH SEPTEMBER
- 8:30-8:45am - Registration
- 8.45-9.00am - Welcome and conference orientation
- 9.00-11.00am - Plenary 1
- 11.00-11.30am - Coffee
- 11.30am-12.30pm - Keynote address: Subu Subramanian
- 12.30-1.30pm - Lunch
- 13.30-3.30pm - Session 1
- 3.30-4pm - Coffee
- 4.00-6.00pm - Session 2
- 7.00-9.30pm - Drinks reception and conference dinner at Salaam Namaste
FRIDAY 8TH SEPTEMBER
- 9.00-11.00am - Session 3
- 11.00-11.30am - Coffee
- 11.30am-12.30pm - Keynote address: John Hoddinott
- 12.30-1.30pm - Lunch
- 1.30-3.00pm - Session 4
- 3.00-3.30pm - Coffee
- 3.30-5.30pm - Plenary 2 – Policy
- 5.30-6.00pm - Conference Closing Discussion
- 7.30-9.30pm - Dinner (at participant’s expense)
The full programme booklet can be downloaded here.
Detailed Schedule
Detailed Schedule
PLENARY 1: THURSDAY, 9-11AM
PLENARY 1: THURSDAY, 9-11AM
Chair: Noel Cameron
- Linda Adair, University of North Carolina, Stunting in a changing world: Under-nutrition and the dual burden of stunting and overweight
- Derek Headey, The International Food Policy Research Institute, The age dynamics of growth faltering among pre-school children: Evidence from 57 developing countries
- Eric Schneider, LSE, Child growth in the long run: New evidence from the UK and Japan
SESSION 1: THURSDAY, 1.30-3.30PM
SESSION 1: THURSDAY, 1.30-3.30PM
Session 1a (OLD 323)
Chair: Catherine Porter
- Lucie Moore, Oxford Policy Management Ltd, The impact of unconditional cash transfers and behaviour change communication on infant well-being
- Discussant: Zewdie Aderaw
- Sarah Baird, George Washington University, When the money runs out: Do cash transfers have sustained effects on human capital accumulation?
- Discussant: Bansi Malde
- Kota Ogasawara, Chiba University, Persistence of natural disaster on children’s growth: The Great Kanto Earthquake in Japan, 1923
- Discussant: Stephen Morgan
Session 1b (OLD 321)
Chair: Purnima Menon
- Evan Roberts, University of Minnesota, Growth faltering in the United States, 1912-2014
- Discussant: Elisabetta Aurino
- Harold Alderman, The International Food Policy Research Institute, The timing of growth faltering: Implications for observational analyses of the underlying determinants of nutrition outcomes
- Discussant: Cara Flowers
- Deborah Oxley, University of Oxford, Toddlers, teenagers and terminal heights: The determinants of adult male stature, Flanders 1800-76
- Discussant: Bill Kinsey
SESSION 2: THURSDAY, 4-6PM
SESSION 2: THURSDAY, 4-6PM
Session 2a (OLD 323)
Chair: Kris Inwood
- Anastasia Aladysheva, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, Child health and intra-household bargaining: Evidence from a new panel study in Kyrgyzstan
- Discussant: Deborah Oxley
- Illana Seff, Columbia University Dynamics of Child Malnutrition in Ethiopia
- Discussant: Giacomo Mason
- Tim Hatton, University of Essex, Atmospheric pollution and child health in late-Nineteenth Century Britain
- Discussant: Catherine Porter
Session 2b (OLD 321)
Chair: Stuart Gillespie
- Phuong Hong Nguyen, International Food Policy Research Institute, Understanding the burden of stunting in India: A regression-decomposition analysis of district level data from the 2015-2016 National Family Health Survey
- Discussant: Henry Doctor
- Joseph Cummins, University of California, Riverside, Age-profile estimates of the relationship between economic growth and child health
- Discussant: Berk Özler
- Katherine Richards, Save the Children UK, Unequal portions
- Discussant: Hamish Maxwell-Stuart
SESSION 3: FRIDAY, 9-11AM
SESSION 3: FRIDAY, 9-11AM
Session 3a (OLD 323)
Chair: Deborah Oxley
- Andreas Georgiadis, Brunel University, London, Maternal under-nutrition and childbearing in adolescence and offspring growth and development in low- and middle- income countries: Is adolescence a critical window for interventions against stunting?
- Discussant: Matthias Blum
- Kris Inwood, University of Guelph, The growth of adolescents in the British Dominions, 1840- 1920
- Discussant: Noel Cameron
- Tim Cole, UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, Fifty years of child height and weight in Japan and South Korea: Contrasting secular trend patterns analyzed by SITAR
- Discussant: Ewout Depauw
Session 3b (OLD 321)
Chair: Stephen Morgan
- Bill Kinsey, Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Study, Stunting in sub-Saharan Africa: Why ‘nutrition-sensitive’ interventions have had so little impact
- Discussant: Jody Harris
- Emmanuela Galasso, The World Bank, Tackling stunting and promoting child development through integrated interventions in Madagascar
- Discussant: Alexis le Nestour
- Alessandro Tarozzi, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Food for thought? Results from a large-scale rice fortification project through the midday meal scheme in Odisha, India
- Discussant: Akib Khan
SESSION 4: FRIDAY, 1.30-3.30PM
SESSION 4: FRIDAY, 1.30-3.30PM
Session 4a (OLD 323)
Chair: Hamish Maxwell-Stuart
- Andrew Prentice, London School of Hygeine and Tropical Medicine, Stunting in rural West Africa: Trends, drivers and possible solutions
- Discussant: Stuart Gillespie
- Bansi Malde, University of Kent, The interaction between nutrition and Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) in determining child height
- Discussant: Catherine Porter
Session 4b (OLD 321)
Chair: Jody Harris
- Aryeh Stein, Emory University, Growth failure, overweight, and adult health: Evidence from cohorts in low and middle-income countries
- Discussant: Purnima Menon
- Matthias Blum, Queen’s University, Belfast, Scarring and Selection in the Great Irish Famine
- Discussant: Tharshini Thangavelu
PLENARY 2: POLICY (ROUND TABLE DISCUSSION), FRIDAY, 3.30-5.30PM
PLENARY 2: POLICY (ROUND TABLE DISCUSSION), FRIDAY, 3.30-5.30PM
OLD 321
Chair: Purnima Menon
- Emanuela Galasso, The World Bank
- Rajan Sankar,Tata Trusts
- Harold Alderman, International Food Policy Research Institute
- Katherine Richards, Save the Children UK
- Jody Harris, Institute of Development Studies