Technical Expert Advisory group on nutrition Monitoring (TEAM) was jointly convened by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) in 2015.
The TEAM will advise on how to improve the quality of nutrition monitoring efforts at all levels. The group will achieve this through the facilitation of shared learning and the development of harmonized standards, tools and approaches in several relevant sectors such as health, social protection, agriculture.
The TEAM is also expected to identify emerging research questions and needs related to the implementation of monitoring initiatives and to communicate these to appropriate partners.
Roles and responsibilities
The Technical Expert Advisory Group on Nutrition Monitoring will be asked to:
- assess existing indicators to monitor nutritional status, the implementation of nutrition programmes and policies, the description of policy environment in countries.
- develop frameworks to describe inputs, outputs, and outcomes linking underlying risk factors, policy and programme responses to nutrition outcomes
- analyse constraints in the collection of data for different types of indicators
- assess methods for data quality control
- assess new technological approaches for data collection, processing and analysis
- assess methods used to produce national, regional and global estimates using data from routine and survey sources
- recommend priority indicators for monitoring global nutrition challenges and policy frameworks aimed at addressing them
- recommend methodologies for data collection, analysis and presentation
- recommend methodologies about integration of data collection by various sources
- recommend methodologies for estimating progress at national, regional and global levels
- recommend procedures for the interpretation of the indicators to trigger actions
- recommend research priorities for existing and new indicators
Contact
Current members
Kalaeb Baye
Associate Professor, Director of the Center for Food Science and Nutrition, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Jennifer Coates
Associate Professor, Food Policy and Applied Nutrition, Tufts Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy Boston, MA, United States of America
Edward Frongillo
Professor and Co-Director of Global Health Initiatives, Arnold School of Public Health, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, United States of America
Research Scientist, Center for Human Nutrition, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, United States of America
Gilberto Kac
Professor, Nutritional Epidemiology, Nutrition Institute, Rio de Janeiro Federal University, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Jef Leroy
Senior Research Fellow, Nutrition, Diets, and Health Unit, International Food Policy Research Institute, Washington, DC, United States of America
Priscila Machado
Research Fellow, Institute for Physical Activity and Nutrition, Deakin University, Australia
Erin Milner
Senior Nutrition Advisor, Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning, United States Agency for International Development, Arlington, VA, United States of America
Sorrel Namaste
Deputy Project Director, Enhancing Nutrition Monitoring, Evaluation, Research, and Learning, RTI International, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, United States of America
Pujitha Wickramasinghe
Professor, Peadiatrics department, University of Colombo and honorary Consultant, Lady Ridgeway Hospital for Children, Colombo, Sri Lanka
Sara Wuehler
Senior Technical Advisor, Nutrition International (& UNICEF/WHO TEAM), Ottawa, Canada
Zhenyu Yang
Research Professor, National Institute for Nutrition and Health, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China