- White Papers
School Meals and Food Systems: Rethinking the consequences for climate, environment, biodiversity, and food sovereignty
Research Consortium for School Health and Nutrition
2023- Annual Research Statements
Annual Research Statement to the Global Summit of the School Meals Coalition 2025
Research Consortium for School Health and Nutrition
2025
https://doi.org/10.17037/PUBS.04677497Annual Research Statement to the Ministerial Meeting of the School Meals Coalition 2024
Research Consortium for School Health and Nutrition
2024
https://doi.org/10.17037/PUBS.04674037Annual Research Statement to the Global Summit of the School Meals Coalition 2023
Research Consortium for School Health and Nutrition
2023
https://doi.org/10.17037/PUBS.04671285Annual Research Statement to the Task Force Ministerial Meeting of the School Meals Coalition 2022
Research Consortium for School Health and Nutrition
2022- National School Meals Case Studies
School Meals Case Study: Spain (Working Paper) - SPANISH ONLY
Arcarons AF, Ayllón A, Blanquer M, Giamello C, Lado S, Lafuente M, Salvador G and San Vicente J
2026School Meals Case Study: Cameroon (Working Paper)
Ngwaneh Miki G, Ewane Mboh F, Ndukong C. Koyoh NC, Wanka F and Ngoongeh Ngwang N
2026School Meals Case Study: Lesotho (Working Paper)
Nkoko N and Nyofane M
2026School Meals Case Study: Ghana (Working Paper)
Addo P, Kushitor K, Mawuli K M, Gyinde A, Ester Gaba D, Zotor B F
2025School Meals Case Study: Colombia (Working Paper) - SPANISH ONLY
Ardila Pinto F, Valoyes Bejarano E
2025School Meals Case Study: Guatemala (Working Paper) - SPANISH ONLY
Tercero-Gomez F, Kestler-Farfan K
2025School Meals Case Study: Sweden (Working Paper)
Angelin A, Lindroos A K, Olsson C, Elin E, Rooth D-O, Lindroth J, Shäfer Elinder L, Waling M, Neuman N, Eustachio Colombo P
2025School Meals Case Study: The Philippines
Angeles-Agdeppa I, Africa L
2025School Meals Case Study: Armenia
Mkrtchyan A, Mkrtchyan S
2025School Meals Case Study: Brazil (Working Paper)
Slater B, Bicalho D
2025School Meals Case Study: Republic of Korea (Working Paper)
Kim Y, Yoon J, Yoon S
2025School Meals Case Study: Latvia (Working Paper)
Aleksejeva L
2025School Meals Case Study: Angola (Working Paper)
Sinela A, Zau DP, Eurico DL, Miguel AC, Miguel AC
2025School Meals Case Study: Denmark (Working Paper)
Mikkelsen BE, Bergman Madsen B, Loklindt, L, Madsen, C, Chang A
2025School Meals Case Study: Mexico (Working Paper) - SPANISH ONLY
Espinosa F, Ferre I, Gomiciaga S, Ancira-Moreno M, Hernandez-Cordero S, Bahena L, Ordaz L, Hernandez-Palafox C, Valero I
2025School Meals Case Study: Thailand (Working Paper)
Ponprachanuvut, P, Srisangwan N, Keeratichamroen A, Chammari K, Gowachirapant S, Chittchang, U, Srichamnong W
2025School Meals Case Study: Bangladesh (Working Paper)
Akter F, Chowdhury MA, Shamim AA
2025School Meals Case Study: Ecuador (Working Paper)
Ocaña Navas JA, Contreras Díaz YJ, Larenas R, Guerrero Zurita GP, Sinchiguano Almeida CE, Zurita MG, Estrella Proaño AC, Pinto Delgado JP, Villalba Vásquez JJ, Ochoa Avilés A
2025School Meals Case Study: Morocco (Working Paper)
Abderrahim M, Abdelmajid S and Mahmoud S
2025School Meals Case Study: Nigeria (Working Paper)
Adesanmi A, Adekunle F
2024School Meals Case Study: Burundi (Working Paper)
Liboire B, Ndayishime D, Simbomana C, Ndayishiye N, Nyandwi V, Nkezabahizi F, Nimubona A, Ntunzwenimana M, Ndayitwayeko WM, Nkenguruste J, Ndereyimana S
2024School Meals Case Study: Kenya (Working Paper)
Kamau J, Wanjohi M and Raburu P
2024School Meals Case Study: Benin (Working Paper)
Amoussa Hounkpatin W, Fanou Fogny N, Bodjrenou S, Koukou E, Sossou C, Assogba E, Houndolo M, Tossou W, Boyiako B, Ainin A, Saroumi Y
2024School Meals Case Study: Togo (Working Paper)
Kodjo A, Alao BH, Lawson-Drackey M, Tiatou S
2024School Meals Case Study: Senegal (Working Paper)
Tounkara S, Kebe S, Hathie I, Tall L
2024School Meals Case Study: Ukraine (Working Paper)
Stepanyak O, Sivak D
2024School Meals Case Study: Ethiopia (Working Paper)
Solomon Tessema M
2023School Meals Case Study: Finland (Working Paper)
Kuusipalo H, Manninen M
2023School Meals Case Study: Japan (Working Paper)
Health Education and Shokuiku Division, Elementary and Secondary; Consumer Affairs and Shokuiku (Food and Nutrition Education) Div
2023School Meals Case Study: France (Working Paper)
Avallone S, Giner C, Nicklaus S, Darmon N.
Available in both English and French.
2023School Meals Case Study: United States of America (Working Paper)
Toossi S, Cohen J, Clift J, Turner L, Gosliner W, Schwartz M.
2023School Meals Case Study: Canada (Working Paper)
Ruetz AT et al.
2023UK School Food Case Study - FOUR PAGER
Research Consortium for School Health and Nutrition, World Food Programme UK
2022School Meals Case Study: England (Working Paper)
Bremner M, Defeyter G.
2022School Meals Case Study: Northern Ireland (Working Paper)
Furey S, Woodside J.
2022School Meals Case Study: Scotland (Working Paper)
Brennan M, Jones J, McKendrick J.
2022School Meals Case Study: Wales (Working Paper)
Brophy S, Woolley K.
2022- City School Meals Case Studies
City School Meals Case Study: Montpellier (Working Paper)
Nehme R, Fernandez A, Bricas N, Massart M, Lançon L, Faucher A, Constantin M and Avallone S
2026City School Meals Case Study: Milan (Working Paper)
Petruzzelli M, Galluccio G, Magarini A
2025- National School Meals Value-for-Money Studies
Value for Money of School Feeding Programmes in Cambodia
Cambodia Value for Money Team
2025Value for Money of School Feeding Programmes in Niger - FRENCH ONLY
Niger Value for Money Study Team
2025Value for Money of School Feeding Programmes in Mozambique
Mozambique Value for Money Study Team
2025
Also available in PortugueseValue for Money of School Feeding Programmes in Namibia
Namibia Value for Money Study Team
2025Value for Money of School Feeding Programmes in Burundi - FRENCH ONLY
Burundi Value for Money Study Team
2025Value for Money of School Feeding Programmes in Ethiopia
Ethiopia Value for Money Study Team
2024Value for Money of School Feeding Programmes in Malawi
Malawi Value for Money Study Team
2024- Publications
Universal Free School Meal Policies and Participation in the US National School Meal Programs
Ramponi F, Zhou H, Gosliner W
2026
JAMA PediatricsInvesting in nutrition throughout the first 8000 days of life: a multisectoral approach to supporting well-being and creating future human capital
Yakubu SO, Akparibo R, Morgan-Fallah C, Ranjan A, Karim Z, Adesanmi B, Schultz L and Bundy DAP
2026
BMJ Global HealthEffectiveness and cost-effectiveness of school meals programmes on education, health and nutrition, social protection and agriculture in low-income and middle-income countries: a systematic review protocol
Miki G, Kiboi W, Ohuma E and Bundy DAP
2026
BMJ OpenHow school health and nutrition interventions are reshaping the global public health narrative
Drake L, Singh S, Giyose B and Bundy DAP
2026
Frontiers in Public HealthPromoting climate-resilient agriculture and food security through school feeding
Singh S, Jordan I, Hunter D, Milani P, Muthoni P and Borelli T
2026
The Lancet Planetary HealthSchool meal programmes: improving health and equity in the European Union
Eustachio Colombo P, Svarc J, Bundy DAP
2026
The Lancet Public HealthThe Role of School Closures and the Education System in Pandemic Preparedness and Response
Bundy DAP, Baltag V, Bedasso B, Burbano C, Edmunds WJ, Gentilini U, Hanushek E, Oshitani H, Patouillard E, Schultz L, Tammi A-M, Jamison J
2026
World Bank Disease Control Priorities 4, Volume 2, Chapter 8Beyond their nutritional value, school meal programs support agricultural and food transition toward sustainability by creating multi-sectoral values in France
Avallone S, Nicklaus S, Giner C, Cohen JFW, Verguet S
2025
Frontiers in NutritionThe EAT-Lancet Commission on healthy, sustainable, and just food systems
Rockström J, Haraksingh Thilsted S, Willett WC et al.
2025
The LancetThe health, environmental, and cost implications of providing healthy and sustainable school meals for every child by 2030: a global modelling study
Springmann M, Hansoge MP, Schultz L, Pastorino S and Bundy DAP
2025
The Lancet Planetary HealthThe Global Evidence Brief: Evidence powering the growth of school meals worldwide
Research Consortium for School Health and Nutrition
2025Current status of school vision screening—rationale, models, impact and challenges: a review
Little, J-A; Chan, VF; Saw, S-M; Tham, YC; Chew, L; Foo, LL; Collins, M; Ebri, AE; Han, X; SCHULTZ, L; Gleason, D; Jacobs, L; Prakash, WD; MORJARIA, P; Robler, SK; Emmett, SD; MacKenzie, G; Wang, N; Khanna, RC; BUNDY, D; Congdon, N;
2025
British Journal of OphthalmologyPolicy insights for national school meals programmes: Annual Research Statements to the members of the School Meals Coalition - 2022, 2023, and 2024
Research Consortium for School Health and Nutrition
2025
Frontiers in Public HealthThe current state, benefits, and exemplary models of school meal programmes in the European Union – a report following 19th meeting of Child Guarantee coordinators on school meals
Research Consortium for School Health and Nutrition
2025
European CommissionEducation and nutrition: Learn to eat well
UNESCO Global Education Monitoring Report (GEM) team and Research Consortium for School Health and Nutrition
2025
UNESCOCross-National Experiences on Child Health and Development during School Age and Adolescence: The Next 7,000 Days
Schultz L, Hangoma P, Jamison DT, and Bundy DAP on behalf of the Authors’ Writing Group
2025
World Bank Disease Control Priorities 4, Volume 1, Chapter 20Children’s wellbeing in schools
Laura Webb & Emma Cary
2025
POSTnoteSurgical care is critical for advancing adolescent health in low and middle-income countries
Smith ER, Alayande B, Ameh EA, Seyi-Olajide JO, Cotache-Condor C, Espinoza P, Metcalf M, Staton C, Bekele A, Bundy DAP, Rice HE, Bickler S
2024
World Journal of SurgeryPlanet-friendly school meals: opportunities to improve children's health and leverage change in food systems
Silvia Pastorino, Ulrika Backlund, Danny Hunter, Minna Kaljonen, Samrat Singh
2024
The Lancet Planetary HealthSchool Meals: A Unique Strategy for Fighting Inequality, Poverty, and Hunger and Achieving the SDGS
Balaban D, Beardmore S, Burbano C, Ahmed MA, Limongi V, Senesi MG, Ehsani M, Sahu R, Milani P, Kaur S,Mwabe, J, Watkins K, Bellinger A, Halloran A, Konradsen F, Schultz L, Bundy DAP
2024
T20 policy briefRe-Estimating Global School Feeding Program Targets: How has the size of the global population of vulnerable school-age children changed post COVID Pandemic (WORKING PAPER)
Lu X, Bundy DAP, Burbano C, Antoninis M, Verguet S
2024The SABER School Feeding policy tool: a 10-year analysis of its use by countries in developing policies for their national school meals programs
Schultz L, Renaud A, Bundy DAP, Barry FBM, Benveniste L, Burbano de Lara C, Lo MM, Neitzel J, O'Grady N, Drake L
2024
Frontiers in Public HealthSchool Meals Are Evolving: Has the Evidence Kept Up?
Alderman H, Bundy DAP, Gelli A
2024
The World Bank Research ObserverSchool Meals, Social Protection and Human Development: Revisiting Trends, Evidence, and Practices in South Asia and Beyond
Bundy DAP, Gentilini U, Schultz L, Bedasso B, Singh S, Okamura Y, Iyengar HTMM, Blakstad MM
2024
World Bank Group Working PaperExpanding the national school meals programme in Ukraine: policy brief
2024
World Health OrganizationInvesting in school systems: conceptualising returns on investment across the health, education and social protection sectors
Verguet S et al.
2023
BMJUniversal free school meals: the future of school meals programmes?
Cohen J, Verguet S, Giyose B, Bundy DAP
2023
The LancetA positive consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic: how the counterfactual experience of school closures is accelerating a multisectoral response to the treatment of neglected tropical diseases
Bundy DAP et al.
2023
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal SocietyPolicy Brief | Prioritizing debt relief conditional on investing in human capital
Research Consortium for School Health and Nutrition
2023Realising the potential of schools to improve adolescent nutrition
Baltag V, Sidaner E, Bundy DAP, Guthold R, Nwachukwu C, Engesveen K, Sharma D, Engelhardt K, Patton G
2022
BMJBreaking down silos between health and education to improve adolescent wellbeing
Gray NJ, Desmond NA, Ganapathee DS, Beadle S, Bundy DAP, on behalf of the UN H6+ Adolescent Learning and Skills Writing Group
2022
BMJA coordinated response to the needs of the learner: How deworming and school meals together will contribute to the global recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic
Karutu C, Schultz L, Waltz J, Campbell SJ, Kamara K, Yotebieng K, Gouvras A, Rollinson D, Bundy DAP
2022
Frontiers in Tropical DiseasesReady to learn and thrive: school health and nutrition around the world; highlights
UNESCO, World Food Programme, United Nations Children's Fund
2022School feeding programs for improving the physical and psychological health of school children experiencing socioeconomic disadvantage (Protocol)
Kristjansson E, Osman M, Dignam M, Labelle PR, Magwood O, Huerta Galicia A, Cooke-Hughes P, Wells GA, Krasevec J, Enns A, Nepton A, Janzen L, Shea B, Liberato SC, Garner JA, Welch V
2022
Cochrane Database of Systematic ReviewsThe Investment Case for School Health & Nutrition: Memo #4
Bundy DAP, Schultz L, Verguet S, Angrist N, Watkins K
2022School Health and Nutrition Monitoring: What Practitioners and Policy Makers Can Learn from China
Schultz L, Bundy DAP
2022
The Lancet Regional HealthCOVID-19: Missing More Than a Classroom. The impact of school closures on children’s nutrition
Borkowski A, Ortiz-Correa JS, Bundy DAP, Burbano C, Hayashi C, Lloyd-Evans E, Neitzel J and Reuge N
2021
UNICEF Office of Research – InnocentiSustaining Adolescent Health Service Delivery during Prolonged School Closures: Considerations in Light of COVID-19
Global Financing Facility
2021State of School Feeding Worldwide, 2020
UN World Food Programme
2020The Role of Health in Education and Human Capital: why an integrated approach to school health could make a difference to the futures of schoolchildren in low income countries
Cohee L, Halliday K, Gelli A, Mwenyango I, Lavadenz F, Burbano C, Drake L and Bundy DAP
2020
Journal of The American Society of Tropical Medicine and HygieneStepping up effective school health and nutrition: A partnership for healthy learners and brighter futures
UNESCO, FAO, GPE, UNICEF, UNSCN, World Bank Group, WFP and WHO
2020The Broader Economic Value of School Feeding Programs in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Estimating the Multi-Sectoral Returns to Public Health, Human Capital, Social Protection, and the Local Economy
Verguet S, Limasalle P, Chakrabarti A, Husain A, Burbano C, Drake L and Bundy DAP
2020
Frontiers in Public HealthEstablishing Global School Feeding Program Targets: How Many Poor Children Globally Should Be Prioritized, and What Would Be the Cost of Implementation?
Drake L, Lazrak N, Fernandes M, Chu K, Singh S, Ryckembusch D, Nourozi S, Bundy DAP and Burbano C
2020
Frontiers in Public HealthDisease Control Priorities, Third Edition: Volume 8. Child and adolescent health and development
Bundy DAP, De Silva N, Horton S, Jamison DT and Patton GC
2018
World BankRe-Imagining School Feeding: A High-Return Investment in Human Capital and Local Economies
Bundy DAP, de Silva N, Horton S, Jamison DT and Patton GC, eds.
2018
World BankThe Global Partnership for Education: forging a stronger partnership between health and education sectors to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals
Albright A and Bundy DAP
2018
The LancetSchool Feeding: a game changer
Bundy DAP and Burbano C
2018
Policy Options PolitiqueUniversal health coverage and intersectroal action for health: key messages from Disease Control Priorities, 3rd Edition
Jamison, DT, Alwan A, Mock CN, et al.
2018
The LancetInvestment in child and adolescent health and development: key messages from Disease Control Priorities, 3rd Edition
Bundy DAP, de Silva N, Horton S, Patton GC, Schultz L, Jamison DT for the DCP3 Child and Adolescent Health Authors Group
2017
The LancetThe Evolution of School Health and Nutrition in the Education Sector in sub-Saharan Africa (2000-2015)
Bachir S, Fernandes M, Banham L, Bundy DAP, Drake LJ
2017
Frontiers in Public HealthGlobal School Feeding Sourcebook: Lessons from 14 countries
Drake L, Woolnough A, Burbano C and Bundy DAP
2016
Partnership for Child DevelopmentRethinking school feeding: Social safety nets, child development, and the education sector
Bundy DAP, Burbano C, Grosh M, Gelli A, Jukes M, and Drake L.
2009
World Bank- Reports
The Global Evidence Brief 2025: Evidence powering the growth of school meals worldwide
The Research Consortium for School Health and Nutrition
2025