About the Project and Team
Motivation and Aims
This project aims to collect dietary quality data in the general adult population across countries worldwide, and to provide the tools for valid and feasible diet quality monitoring within countries. The project enables the collection of consistent, comparable dietary data across countries for the first time.
All data are collected in the Gallup World Poll. The DQQ was administered in national probability-based samples of civilian, non-institutionalized individuals of any gender, aged 15 and older. Data collection occurred either using face-to-face or telephone surveys. Country-specific details of data collection can be found here. The Gallup World Poll is the only survey in the world that covers more than 98% of the world's adult population through annual, nationally representative surveys with comparable metrics across countries.
Team
The Global Diet Quality Project is a collaboration between Gallup, Harvard Department of Global Health and Population, and the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN).
Core team members
Anna Herforth, Senior Research Associate, Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Andrew Rzepa., Partner, Gallup, Inc.
Ty Beal, Research Advisor, Knowledge Leadership, GAIN
GAIN team: Andoni Santamaria Kampfner
Gallup team: Zacc Ritter, Kiki Papachristoforou, Zach Bikus, Taylor Auger, Pablo Diego-Rosell
Collaborators
DQQ Adaptation Team: Cecilia Gonzalez, Kristina Sokourenko, Andrea Spray Bulungu, Betül Uyar, Chris Vogliano
Independent: Terri Ballard (original core team), Doris Wiesmann (lead indicator analyst)
Wageningen University & Research: Inge Brouwer, Elise Talsma, Laura Trijsburg, Tesfaye Hailu Bekele, Duong Van, Edith Feskens
University of São Paulo: Carlos Monteiro, Euridice Martinez-Steele, Isabela Sattamini, Giovanna Andrade
Columbia University: Pamela Koch, Deborah Olarte, and Community Nutrition students
Demographic and Health Surveys: Sorrel Namaste, Rukundo Benedict
Technical Advisory Group (2016-2018): Lynnette Neufeld, Francesco Branca, Jennifer Coates, Megan Deitchler, Marlene Heeb, Fumiaki Imamura, Gina Kennedy, Anna Lartey, Catherine Leclercq, Carlos Monteiro, Abigail Perry, Ivo Rakovac, Shelly Sundberg, Anne Swindale, Patrick Webb
Many other collaborators, including the global network of over 850 key informants who made this work possible.
Donors
