journals.plos.org/plosone/articl… We must think hard about the most suitable ways to be implementing programmes for promoting early stimulation and child development in a way that is understanding of the situation for mums and dads in different parts of the world.

Kusamala means “to take care” in Chichewa, the native language of #Malawi. #NurturingCareFramework

The Kusamala Program is a nurse-led interactive counselling program for primary caregivers of children with severe acute malnutrition #nutrition #WASH #ECD SickKids Global Child Health Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital

Details of the Kusamala Program and our ongoing trial can be found in our study protocol in BMC Trials here: bit.ly/2NLXMm2 #trialsjournal #SAM #nutrition #WASH #ECD #RCT

Grand Challenges Canada is funded by the Government of Canada and is dedicated to supporting Bold Ideas with Big Impact® in global health. We are proud that the Kusamala Program is supported by Grand Challenges Canada!

See the correspondence written about our longstanding malnutrition research group with members from SickKids Global Child Health and Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital published in The Lancet Global Health: bit.ly/2uAnZvO

Our team of field workers uses the Malawi Developmental Assessment Tool designed by Dr Melissa Gladstone to assess the effectiveness of the Kusamala Program to improve child development. #MDAT #ECD #EarlyChildDevelopment #NurturingCareFramework

I just noticed this course of ECD - The Best Start in Life: Early Childhood Development for Sustainable Development - looks really good on @edxonline #mooc edx.org/course/the-bes…

Check out the State of Acute Malnutrition No Wasted Lives page to learn about ongoing research in children with severe and moderate acute malnutrition around the world including the Kusamala Program: acutemalnutrition.org/en/ongoing-res…

We have just published a manuscript in Pilot and Feasibility Studies about the feasibility of implementing the Kusamala Program at the Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital : bit.ly/2xJJKu4 BMC General Medicine and Medical Evidence @ BMC #PFSjournal

.SickKids Global Child Health's Dr. Robert Bandsma is one of 60 invited experts, who will gather to discuss ideas on how to galvanize #nutrition #science with World Health Organization (WHO) & Wellcome.

The bond between a mother and child is one of the most precious relationships in the world. Mothers are a source of love, support and strength. We wish all mothers a Happy Mothers Day!

Some of our team members were involved in this research at the Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital published in MMJ about the perceptions and experiences of caregivers whose children have been admitted for treatment of malnutrition: mmj.mw/?p=7844

Wishing all of our partners in #GlobalChildHealth a healthy, happy and peaceful new year! #HappyNewYear2019 #HappyNewYear

MMJ with a bang again: We've been accepted in the Directory of Open Access Journals DOAJ, following a stringent application process. This testifies to our adherence to principles of transparency and best practice in scholarly publishing.African Journals @TaylorsTrinket

Our team has just published a capacity building paper in Global Health Action about the introduction of the Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital nutrition support program in Malawi supported by SickKids Global Child Health : tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Happy #InternationalWomensDay, a day to recognize and celebrate the incredible contributions of #women throughout the world. 🌎🌍🌏 Read our spotlight on PhD students Allison Daniel, PhD & Isabel Potani and their work together on The Kusamala Program. bit.ly/SKIWD2020 #IWD2020

Take a look at our team's recent paper in MMJ of a survey of nutritional rehabilitation units in Southern #Malawi pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32128033/

The Kusamala Program (The Kusamala Program), a counselling intervention for caregivers of children with #malnutrition, is now available on our new YouTube channel (in #Chichewa): youtube.com/playlist?list=… Please share with anyone in #Malawi who may be able to use this as a resource!

The The Kusamala Program is a 4-d hospital-based counseling program for caregivers of children with SAM in #Malawi. See the results from our mixed-methods cluster-RCT here in #CDN American Society for Nutrition Journals : academic.oup.com/cdn/article/5/…