The overall Principal Investigator (PI) for this project, Lara Dugas, is from Loyola University of Chicago with CO-PIs in Jamaica (UWI SODECO), Ghana, South Africa, and Seychelles. This project explores the role of gut bacteria (microbiome) in the increasing risk of obesity and co-morbidities such as diabetes and hypertension in populations of African origin.
This project is shared among the same collaborators above to explore the role of sleep disturbance and meal timing on obesity and diabetes incidence.
This project is shared among The UWI (UWI SODECO), origin of the overall PI (Terrence Forrester), and Harvard U, University of Southampton and the International Center for Diarrhoeal Research, Bangladesh. The project is designed to evaluate the impact of brain-targeted nutritional supplements on cognition and emotional regulation in children suffering severe acute malnutrition in Dhaka, Bangladesh who are rehabilitated using a specially designed feed.
This project also has its origin at The UWI (UWI SODECO PI, Terrence Forrester) and is designed to evaluate the effect of exercise on cognition and emotional regulation of adult survivors of severe acute malnutrition in childhood in Jamaica. Collaborating institutions are, Advent Health, USA; The Liggins Institute, University of Auckland; Department of Pediatrics, Boston Children’s Hospital, HU; and University of Southampton.
