Current Fields of Research
© Ina Danquah/Heidelberg University
Climate Change and Diets
NPH investigates the bidirectional relationships of climate change and dietary behaviour.
- COPLANT – COhort on PLANT-based diets Study in Germany and Austria
- ENHANCE: Integrated Testing for HIV and NCDs Amongst Migrants in Europe
- IPTi Follow-up – Multi-center, prospective cohort study in Ghana on early-life exposure to malaria and nutrition-related non-communicable diseases in adult life
- IRIS Africa – Intelligent and Responsible Innovation with GenAI for Societal impact
- RODAM – Research on Obesity and Diabetes among African Migrants
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Adaptation for Sustainable Nutrition
NPH designs, implements, and evaluates adaptation strategies for climate change impacts in the Global South.
- ALIMUS – Climate-sensitive nutrients, undernutrition and malaria
- ClimapAfrica – Climate change adaptation and coping strategies of smallholder fisherfolks along the Ghana Volta Lake
- HealthyDiets4Africa – Combating malnutrition in Africa through diversification of the food system
- PASTURES – Protected Areas for Sustainable Nutrition Research in Somaliland
© Isabel Mank/Heidelberg University
Nutrition and Climate Change Mitigation
NPH develops and tests climate change mitigation approaches in the nutrition sector that confer co-benefits for health.
- Changemaker – Promoting co-designed sustainable health interventions with young changemakers for reduced risk of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in urban Burkina Faso, Kenya and Tanzania
- SOCCER - Exploring Sustainable Plant-Based Nutrition in Youth Soccer: Experiences and Perceptions of Players, Parents, and Professionals in Youth Soccer Academies
- OPTIMA – Omics Approach for Personalized Prevention of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus for African and European Populations
- KliOL – Climate Change mitigation in Hospitals by Optimizing Supply Chains
- Sustainable dietary weight loss in Ouagadougou: A family-based, randomised, controlled trial for the prevention of type 2 diabetes