Natasha Lelijveld

Natasha Lelijveld is a Senior Nutritionist at Emergency Nutrition Network (ENN) and a Research Fellow at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM). Her work focuses on the long-term effects of child wasting, alternative approaches to increasing coverage of community management of wasting and nutritional oedema, adolescent nutrition, management of wasting in infants less than 6 months (MAMI), and issues around concurrent wasting and stunting (WaSt). Natasha completed her PhD at University College London, where her research considered the long-term effects of severe acute malnutrition in Malawi. She continued her research at LSHTM exploring interventions for nutritionally at-risk infants and adolescent stunting. Natasha also spent time at the Hospital for Sick Kids in Toronto where she studied alternative treatment options for children with moderate acute malnutrition. She also taught the "Nutrition in Emergencies" course for Masters students at the University of Southampton. Besides academia, Natasha has spent time working in policy-steering positions within the No Wasted Lives initiative, and as co-chair of the GNC technical alliance thematic working group on ‘wasting’.