Kevin Sullivan

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

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

Nutrition Survey Toolkit for Improved Micronutrient Surveys

Tiffany Duque, Kevin Sullivan, Donnie Whitehead, Carine Mapango & Katie Tripp · European Journal of Nutrition & Food Safety · 2015

Objectives: The Survey Toolkit, developed by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and hosted by the Micronutrient Initiative, provides epidemiological support and guidance through standardized tools to countries for the assessment and monitoring of population micro...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/EJNFS/2015/20941