Shalean Collins
Shalean Collins, PhD, MPH, RD - Adjunct Assistant Professor Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine
Shalean is an applied nutritionist/dietitian who explores how vulnerable populations, especially women and children, adapt to challenges to their health and wellbeing. Specifically, she is interested in how households and individuals in extremely stressed and low-resource contexts (e.g., conflict settings, complex emergencies) adapt to resource insecurity. Her prior research has focused on maternal and child nutrition, HIV, and food and water insecurity in sub-Saharan Africa and South America.
Shalean has extensive experience conducting qualitative research among individuals with HIV, refugee populations, and in the context of nutrition intervention programs, and has managed large-scale mixed-methods research studies spanning 20+ countries. She was the senior research coordinator supporting development and validation of the Household Water Insecurity Experiences (HWISE) Study (www.hwise.org) and published the first paper exploring the consequences of water insecurity for the maternal-infant dyad in the first 1,000 days.
Shalean Collins, PhD, MPH, RD - Adjunct Assistant Professor Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine
Shalean is an applied nutritionist/dietitian who explores how vulnerable populations, especially women and children, adapt to challenges to their health and wellbeing. Specifically, she is interested in how households and individuals in extremely stressed and low-resource contexts (e.g., conflict settings, complex emergencies) adapt to resource insecurity. Her prior research has focused on maternal and child nutrition, HIV, and food and water insecurity in sub-Saharan Africa and South America.
Shalean has extensive experience conducting qualitative research among individuals with HIV, refugee populations, and in the context of nutrition intervention programs, and has managed large-scale mixed-methods research studies spanning 20+ countries. She was the senior research coordinator supporting development and validation of the Household Water Insecurity Experiences (HWISE) Study (www.hwise.org) and published the first paper exploring the consequences of water insecurity for the maternal-infant dyad in the first 1,000 days.