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Arnold Timmer

Publications (6)

The Home Fortification Community of Practice: An Approach to Improve Inter-country Communication and Collaboration to Support the Implementation and Scaling-up of Home Fortification Programs

Arnold Timmer, Abel Irena, Kathy Ho, Ruth Situma, Amy Dempsey & Scott Schaffter · European Journal of Nutrition & Food Safety · 2015

Objectives: Home fortification is an innovative way to improve the diet with essential nutrients for targeted vulnerable groups who have higher requirements or do not benefit from other micronutrient interventions. As a relatively new program, there is a tremendous need for techn...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/EJNFS/2015/20995

Complementary Interventions for Preventing and Controlling Iodine Deficiencies in Pregnant Women, Infants, and Young Children

Arnold Timmer, Carmen Ho, Michael Zimmerman, Jonathan Gorstein & Frits Van Der Haar · European Journal of Nutrition & Food Safety · 2015

Objectives: Inadequate dietary iodine is the main cause of preventable brain damage, posing a serious threat to intellectual development and productivity throughout the world. Salt iodization is the primary strategy for preventing and eliminating iodine deficiencies, and 76% of h...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/EJNFS/2015/21151

The Micronutrient Survey Manual: A Manual for Assessing Vitamin and Mineral Nutritional Status and Interventions Using Cross-sectional Surveys

Kevin Sullivan, Juan Pena-Rosa, Arnold Timmer, Luz De-Regil, Tiffany Gust, Parmi Suchdev, Mary Serdula, Ralph Whitehead, Maria Jefferds, Katherine Tripp, Carine Mapango & Jalal Chowdhury · European Journal of Nutrition & Food Safety · 2015

Objectives: An important component of public health nutrition programs is the periodic assessment of vitamin and mineral nutritional status and coverage of micronutrient interventions.  Performing high quality cross-sectional surveys can be enhanced by the availability of guidanc...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/EJNFS/2015/21025

Monitoring of Flour Fortification Programs: Case Studies in Three Countries

Philip Randall, Laird Ruth, Michèle Schmit, Mary Serdula, Arnold Timmer & Helena Pachón · European Journal of Nutrition & Food Safety · 2015

Objectives: Although monitoring should be an integral part of any fortification program, little is publicly known about the design, implementation, and results of flour fortification monitoring systems. The objectives are to assess the monitoring systems in three countries includ...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/EJNFS/2015/21026

Refinements to Assessment of Iodine Nutrition

Kevin Sullivan, Michael Zimmermann, Jonathan Gorstein, Gregory Gerasimov, Arnold Timmer & Juliawati Untoro · European Journal of Nutrition & Food Safety · 2015

Objectives: The main target groups of iodine programs are pregnant women (PW) and non-pregnant women of reproductive age (NPW), yet surveys frequently focus on school age children (SAC). It is unclear whether median urinary iodine concentration (mUIC) in SAC can be used as a surr...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/EJNFS/2015/21027