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Prof Suzanne Filteau

Research Degrees Director & Prof, EPH

United Kingdom

My research focuses on nutritional problems in low- and middle-income countriess and I have  long-term collaborations with researchers in India, Tanzania, and Zambia. I have proven success at leading and contributing to multinational and multidisciplinary collaborations and my training in nutrition, which interacts with all body systems, allows me to make connections across disciplines and thus support junior researchers in diverse fields.

I supervise both LSHTM and overseas doctoral trainees and contribute to teaching and other aspects of the MSC in Nutrition for Global Public Health.

Affiliations

Department of Population Health
Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health

Centres

Centre for Maternal Adolescent Reproductive & Child Health

Teaching

I am a member of the core staff of the MSc, Nutrition for Global Public Health. 

Research

I am an international research team leader and an expert on the role of nutrition in the interaction between infectious and chronic diseases, an under-studied but important area. This work arises from two aspects of my earlier research: on nutrition-HIV interactions and on body composition which is associated with disease in both over- and under-nutrition. My research addresses several themes in the LSHTM research strategy: chronic conditions in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), how these interact with infectious diseases, and how nutrition throughout the life course can influence these interactions. My focus has been on determinants of disease and underlying metabolism with the ultimate aim of improving management of infectious and chronic diseases in LMICs.

Since the largest numbers of people affected by infectious diseases and now also chronic diseases are in LMICs, I have invested substantially in developing partnerships with people from LMICs and mentor them so they become equipped with the skills to lead on research addressing their own aims. My recent grants include those where I act as mentor for colleagues and students in LMICs and those where, as Co-I, I contribute to work led by a PI from a LMIC. I consider mentorship of early career researchers both at LSHTM and in LMICs to be an important contribution to academic leadership.

The SAMPA project, for which I am PI, combines several of my cohorts to permit investigation of long-term outcomes, primarily pancreas structure and endocrine and exocrine functions, of prior exposure to malnutrition or severe infections. This international collaboration will provide a step change in understanding chronic conditions in LMICs. In addition to the addressing the aims of the funded project, the data and samples from the combined cohorts will provide a platform for additional studies and PhD projects, some of which are now being planned.

Research Area
Child health
Clinical trials
Global Health
Nutrition
Vitamins and micronutrients
Disease and Health Conditions
HIV/AIDS
Malnutrition
Non-communicable diseases
Country
Ethiopia
India
Tanzania
Zambia
Region
South Asia
Sub-Saharan Africa (all income levels)

Selected Publications

Serum insulin-like growth factor 1 in young children with moderate acute malnutrition: secondary analysis of a randomized trial in Burkina Faso
Helt, TW; Cichon, B; Fabiansen, C; Iuel-Brockdorff, A-S; Yaméogo, CW; Ritz, C; Briend, A; Michaelsen, KF; FILTEAU, S; Friis, H; Christensen, VB; Grenov, B;
2025
British Journal of Nutrition
Methods for measuring body composition in Zambian adolescents living with HIV.
FILTEAU, S; Chisenga, M; Namunkonda, C; Mukwasi-Kahari, C; Kasonka, L; SIMMS, V; Gregson, CL; Wells, JC;
2024
PLOS global public health
Associations of body composition at birth and accretion from 0 to 5 years with kidney function and volume at the 10-year follow-up: the Ethiopian Infant Anthropometry and Body Composition birth cohort.
Zinab, B; Ali, R; Megersa, BS; Belachew, T; Kedir, E; Girma, T; Admasu, B; Friis, H; Abera, M; FILTEAU, S; NITSCH, D; Wells, JC; Wibaek, R; Yilma, D;
2024
The American journal of clinical nutrition
The role of vitamin D metabolism in regulating bone turnover in adolescents with perinatally-acquired HIV in Southern Africa: a cross-sectional study in Zimbabwe and Zambia.
MADANHIRE, T; Ward, KA; Macdougall, A; MOHAMMED, N; FILTEAU, S; Kasonka, L; Mabuda, HB; Chisenga, M; Tang, J; Fraser, WD; Bandason, T; DZAVAKWA, NV; SIMMS, V; FERRAND, RA; Gregson, CL;
2024
Journal of bone and mineral research
Associations of fat and fat-free mass at birth and accretion from 0 to 5 years with cognitive function at later childhood: the Ethiopian infant anthropometry and body composition birth cohort.
Ali, R; Zinab, B; Megersa, BS; Yilma, D; Girma, T; Admassu, B; FILTEAU, S; Friis, H; Wells, JC K; MARPHATIA, AA; Olsen, MF; Wibaek, R; Abera, M;
2024
The British journal of nutrition
Associations of linear growth with body composition of perinatally HIV-infected African adolescents.
FILTEAU, S; SIMMS, V; Chisenga, M; Kahari, C; DZAVAKWA, N; Namukonda, C; Ward, KA; Kasonka, L; Gregson, CL; Wells, J;
2024
The British journal of nutrition
Current or recent malaria infection is associated with elevated inflammation-adjusted ferritin concentrations in pre-school children: a secondary analysis of the BRINDA database.
SANDALINAS, F; MacDougall, A; FILTEAU, S; Hopkins, H; Blake, T; Luo, H; Suchdev, PS; Ruth, L; Young, MF; JOY, EJ M;
2024
British Journal of Nutrition
Association Between Vitamin D Insufficiency and Impaired Bone Density Among Adolescents With Perinatally Acquired HIV Infection.
DZAVAKWA, NV; SIMMS, V; Gregson, CL; Chisenga, M; FILTEAU, S; Kasonka, L; KRANZER, K; Banda-Mabuda, H; Mujuru, H; Redzo, N; Mukwasi-Kahari, C; Rowland-Jones, SL; Schaible, UE; FERRAND, RA; VITALITY team ,;
2024
Open forum infectious diseases
Associations of early childhood body mass index trajectories with body composition and cardiometabolic markers at age 10 years: the Ethiopian infant anthropometry and body composition (iABC) birth cohort study.
Megersa, BS; Andersen, GS; Abera, M; Abdissa, A; Zinab, B; Ali, R; Admassu, B; Kedir, E; NITSCH, D; FILTEAU, S; Girma, T; Yilma, D; Wells, JC; Friis, H; Wibaek, R;
2024
American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
Developmental and Nutritional Changes in Children with Severe Acute Malnutrition Provided with <i>n</i>-3 Fatty Acids Improved Ready-to-Use Therapeutic Food and Psychosocial Support: A Pilot Study in Tanzania.
Mwita, FC; PrayGod, G; Sanga, E; Setebe, T; Joseph, G; Kunzi, H; WEBSTER, J; Gladstone, M; Searle, R; Ahmed, M; Hokororo, A; FILTEAU, S; Friis, H; Briend, A; Olsen, MF;
2024
Nutrients
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