Professor Suzanne Filteau BSc MSc PhD

Professor of International Nutrition

  

Suzanne Filteau trained first in chemistry and then, at the postgraduate level, in nutrition in Canada. She came to the UK in 1990 and worked for a number of years at the Institute of Child Health, University College London, before joining the LSHTM in January 2005.

 

Affiliation

Teaching

  

Suzanne teaches on the MSc in Public Health Nutrition. She also has a longstanding interest in PhD training and is currently one of the two Research Degrees Directors for EPH.

 

Research

  

Her research focuses on interactions between nutrition and infectious diseases in women and children in low income countries. She has conducted studies on vitamin A - infection interactions and on multiple micronutrient interventions. Her work  in South Africa and  in Zambia has investigated infant feeding and maternal health in the context of endemic HIV. She has recently completed two large randomised controlled trials: a trial of multiple micronutrient fortification of complementary foods for Zambian children, the CIGNIS trial, and a trial of vitamin D supplementation for low birth weight infants in India, the DIVIDS trial. She is now leading a trial in Zambia and Tanzania of nutritional supplements to decrease the early mortality of HIV-infected adults starting antiretroviral therapy (NUSTART) and has been recently funded to follow up growth of children in the DIVIDS cohort.

Research areas

  • Child health
  • Clinical trials
  • Maternal health
  • Micronutrients

Disciplines

  • Nutrition

Disease and Health Conditions

  • HIV/AIDS
  • Malnutrition

Regions

  • South Asia
  • Sub-Saharan Africa (all income levels)

Countries

  • Ethiopia
  • India
  • Tanzania
  • Zambia

Other interests

  • Child Development
  • HIV
  • Maternal And Child Health
  • Nutritional Immunology,nutrientgene Interactions
  • children
  • nutritional epidemiology
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