Reports & Publications

October 2023

A Standardized Method for Collecting Valid and Consistent Data for Minimum Dietary Diversity for Women (MDD-W), an Indicator of Micronutrient Adequacy

Presented at Micronutrient Forum Oct 2023

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OCTOBER 2022

Global Report 2022

Measuring what the world eats: Insights from a new approach

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July 2022

Diet Quality Monitoring in Lao PDR

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Country Profiles

Insights from nationally representative DQQ data collected in 2021. Additional countries coming soon!

Other Publications

Uyar, B.T., Talsma, E.F., Herforth, A.W., Trijsburg, L.E., Vogliano, C., Pastori, G., Bekele, T.H. and Brouwer, I.D., 2023. The DQQ is a valid tool to collect population level food group consumption data: A study among women in Ethiopia, Viet Nam, and Solomon Islands. The Journal of Nutrition. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tjnut.2022.12.014

Global Diet Quality Project. 2022. Measuring what the world eats: Insights from a new approach. Geneva: Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN); Boston, MA: Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Department of Global Health and Population.https://doi.org/10.36072/dqq2022

Global Diet Quality Project. 2022. Brief: Measuring what the world eats: Insights from a new approach. Geneva: Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN); Boston, MA: Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Department of Global Health and Population.

Global Diet Quality Project and UNICEF. 2022. Diet Quality Monitoring in Lao PDR. UNICEF: Vientiane, Lao PDR.https://nipn.lsb.gov.la/document/diet-quality-monitoring-in-lao-pdr-2022/

Ma. S., Herforth, A.W., Vogliano, C., Zou, Z. 2022. Most Commonly-Consumed Food Items by Food Group, and by Province, in China: Implications for Diet Quality Monitoring. Nutrients, 14(9), 1754. https://doi.org/10.3390/nu14091754

Manners, R., Adewopo, J., Niyibituronsa, M., Remans, R., Ghosh, A., Schut, M., Egoeh, S.G., Kilwendge, R., Fraenzel, A. 2022. Leveraging Digital Tools and Crowdsourcing Approaches to Generate High-Frequency Data for Diet Quality Monitoring at Population Scale in Rwanda. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems.https://doi.org/10.3389/fsufs.2021.804821

Wang, H., Herforth, A.W., Xi, B. and Zou, Z., 2022. Validation of the Diet Quality Questionnaire in Chinese Children and Adolescents and Relationship with Pediatric Overweight and Obesity. Nutrients, 14(17), p.3551. https://doi.org/10.3390/nu14173551

Herforth, A.W., Wiesmann, D., Martinez-Steele, E., Andrade, G. and Monteiro, C.A., 2020. Introducing a suite of low-burden diet quality indicators that reflect healthy diet patterns at population level.Current Developments in Nutrition, 4(12), p.nzaa168. https://doi.org/10.1093/cdn/nzaa168

Herforth, A.W. 2016. Seeking Indicators of Healthy Diets. Washington, DC: Gallup.

Herforth, A.W., Ballard, T., and Rzepa, A. 2024. Development of the Diet Quality Questionnaire (DQQ) for measurement of dietary diversity and other diet quality indicators. Current Developments in Nutrition, in press.

Rzepa, A., Crabtree, S., Vigers, B., Papachristoforou, K. 2024. Bridging the gap: Gallup’s role supporting the official statistics ecosystem. Statistical Journal of the IAOS, in press.

Nguyen, P.H., Neupane, S., Pant, A., Avula, R., Herforth, A.W. 2024. Diet quality among mothers and children in India: Roles of social and behavior change communication and nutrition-sensitive social protection programs, under review.