CREED-KANASHIRO Hilary

Instituto de Investigación Nutricional, Lima, Peru

• Hilary Creed-Kanashiro is a nutritionist and senior researcher of the Instituto de Investigación Nutricional, Lima, Peru, with an M.Phil in Human Metabolism from UCL, London.
• Hilary´s specific areas of research, predominately in Peru, are in public health nutrition and include dietary intake assessments; formative research and education/communication nutrition interventions in infant and young child nutrition and women´s and family nutrition.
• Her interests and experience also focus on dietary diversity and traditional food systems and links between agriculture, biodiversity and diet, as well as public health nutrition and community strategies to address the double burden of malnutrition from a young age in the context of the current nutrition transition in LMICs.
• Hilary has more than 80 publications in scientific journals.

Recent publications: 

1. Rebecca Pradeilles, Sabrina Eymard-Duvernay, Rossina Pareja, Michelle Holdsworth, Edwige Landais, Hilary M Creed-Kanashiro, Emily K. Rousham. Changes and correlates of household food insecurity during COVID-19: a repeated cross-sectional survey of low-income households in peri-urban Peru. Food Security. 16, 973–987.
2. Huayta VMR, Pradeilles R, Creed-Kanashiro HM, et al. 2024. Identifying priority double-duty actions to tackle the double burden of malnutrition in infants and young children in Peru: Assessment and prioritisation of government actions by national experts. PLoS ONE 19(5): e0303668.
3. Rebecca Pradeilles, Edwige Landais, Rossina Pareja, Sabrina Eymard-Duvernay, Oonagh Markey, Michelle Holdsworth, Emily K. Rousham, Hilary M. Creed-Kanashiro. Exploring the magnitude and drivers of the double burden of malnutrition at maternal and dyad levels in peri-urban Peru: A cross-sectional study of low-income mothers, infants and young children. Matern Child Nutr. 2023;19:e13549.
4. Zimmerer KS, Jones AD, de Haan S, Creed-Kanashiro H, et al. (2022). Integrating Social-Ecological and Political-Ecological Models of Agrobiodiversity With Nutrient Management of Keystone Food Spaces to Support SDG 2. Sustain. Food Syst. 6:734943.
5. Andrew D. Jones, Hilary Creed-Kanashiro, Karl S. Zimmerer, et al. Farm-level agricultural biodiversity in the Peruvian Andes is associated with greater odds of women achieving a minimally diverse and micronutrient adequate diet. J Nutr. 2018 Oct 1;148(10):1625-1637.