Shweta Khandelwal

Shweta Khandelwal is the Head of Nutrition Research and Associate Professor at the Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI). A nutrition epidemiologist working in maternal and child health and nutrition, Shweta serves on several government panels associated with public health and nutrition policy in India.

National Nutrition Mission: Will it harmonise with India’s health and nutrition agenda?
India is home to 31% of all stunted children and half of all wasted children across the globe. Lately it took a major step in the direction of holistically addressing the mammoth multidimensional problem of malnutrition – the National Nutrition Mission to achieve the goal of malnutrition-free India by 2022. In this post, Shweta Khandelwal outlines various aspects of the programme which need brainstorming, and the challenges that it might encounter.
