Suvi Kangas
Senior Nutrition Researcher
Dr. Suvi Kangas, MSc PhD is a Senior Nutrition Researcher at IRC with 10 years of experience working both in the field and at the central level designing and implementing research projects aiming at optimizing malnutrition treatment. She has extensive experience in designing and conducting rigorous research studies and production of evidence in the form of peer-reviewed articles. The research portfolio that Suvi currently supports includes operational pilots implementing the simplified protocol in various contexts, RCTs aiming at optimizing the simplified protocol and more generally the malnutrition treatment as well as exploratory research to inform guidance on optimization of treatment. Suvi is coordinating the production of different evidence pieces and oversees new research design and implementation within the Malnutrition GRIP.
Publications
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Nutritional treatment of children 6–59 months with severely low weight-for-age z-score: a study protocol for a 3-arm randomized controlled trial
Admission criteria that treat children with low mid-upper-arm circumference (MUAC), and low weight-for-height z-score (WHZ) are not aligned with the evidence on which children are at risk of mortality. An analysis of community-based cohort data from Senegal found that a combination of weight-for-age (WAZ) and MUAC criteria identified all children at risk of near-term death associated with severe anthropometric deficits. This study will address whether children with WAZ <−3 but MUAC ≥125 mm benefit from therapeutic feeding with ready-to-use therapeutic foods (RUTF) and whether a simplified protocol is non-inferior to the weight-based standard protocol.
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