I am the Principal Investigator of IMMANA (Innovative Methods and Metrics for Agriculture and Nutrition Actions), DFID’s partnership to stimulate the development and application of scientifically sound methods and metrics in agriculture, health and nutrition research. I am the Principal Investigator of a research programme integrating maternal and child nutrition objectives into a participatory low-cost video driven agriculture extension platform. I am also a co-investigator of Leveraging Agriculture for Nutrition in South Asia (LANSA) research consortium.

At the International Food Policy Research Institute (2002-2013), I co-established and led multiple large multidisciplinary and multistakeholder research programmes including  the HIV and Nutrition Security theme under a five country initiative, RENEWAL (Regional Network on AIDS, Livelihood and Food Security) in eastern and southern Africa; TANDI (Tackling the Agriculture Nutrition Linkages in India) and POSHAN (Partnerships and Opportunities to Strengthen and Harmonize Actions for Nutrition in India) in India and; the evaluation design and baseline survey of a multisectoral program, Suaahara, in Nepal.