Office Location
Nutritional Sciences
1415 Linden Dr
Madison, WI 53706
Education:
- Ph.D., 2014, Program in International Nutrition, Cornell University
- M.P.S., 2007, International Agriculture and Rural Development, Cornell University
- B.A., 1997, Political Science, Pennsylvania State University
Representative publications:
Kassim, N., Ngure, F., Smith, L., Makule, E., Turner, P., Stoltzfus, R., Phillips, E. (2023). Provision of Low‐Aflatoxin Local Complementary Porridge Flour Reduced Urinary Aflatoxin Biomarker in Children aged 6‐18 months in Rural Tanzania. Maternal and Child Nutrition. Available online: http://doi.org/10.1111/mcn.13499
Ngure, F., Kassim, N., Phillips, E., Turner, P. (2023). Infant and Young Child Feeding Practices and Mycotoxin Contamination of Complementary Food Ingredients in Kongwa District, Tanzania. Current Developments in Nutrition. Available online: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cdnut.2023.100030.
Phillips, E., Turner, P., Ngure, F., Kassim, N., Smith, L., Makule, E., Nelson, R., Stoltzfus, R. (2022). Ethical Considerations for the Trial to Establish a Causal Linkage Between Mycotoxin Exposure and Child Stunting. World Mycotoxin Journal. Available online: https://doi.org/10.3920/WMJ2021.2705.
Nicholson, C., Kopainsky, B., Stephens, E., Parsons, D., Jones, A., Garrett, J., Phillips, E. (2020). Conceptual Frameworks Linking Agriculture and Food Security. Nature Food, 1, 541-551. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43016-020-00142-3.
Phillips, E., Ngure, F., Smith, L., Makule, E., Turner, P., Nelson, R., Kimanya, M., Stoltzfus, R., Kassim, N. (2020). Protocol for the Trial To Establish a Causal Linkage Between Mycotoxin Exposure and Child Stunting; a Cluster Randomized Trial. BMC Public Health, 20 (598). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-020- 08694-6.
Heidkamp, R., Guida, R., Phillips, E., Clermont, A. (2017). The Lives Saved Tool (LiST) as a Model for Prevention of Anemia in Women of Reproductive Age. Journal of Nutrition, 147(11):2156S-2162S. https://doi.org/10.3945/jn.117.252429.
Heidkamp, R., Clermont, A., Phillips, E. (2017). Modeling the impact of nutrition interventions on birth outcomes in the Lives Saved Tool (LiST). Journal of Nutrition, 147(11): 2188S-2193S. https://doi.org/10.3945/jn.116.243667.
Phillips, E., Stoltzfus, R., Michaud, L., Gracia, L., Pelletier, D. (2017). Do Mobile Clinics Provide Quality Antenatal Care? A comparison of care delivery, knowledge outcomes and perception of quality of care between fixed and mobile clinics in central Haiti. BMC Pregnancy Childbirth. 17(1):361.https://doi.org/10.1186/s12884-017-1546-7.
Additional publications: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/myncbi/erica.phillips.2/bibliography/public/
Research interests:
Infant and young child feeding practices, assessment of adherence to feeding interventions, ethical research design in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), the effect of COVID-19 on maternal and child health and nutrition care seeking and outcomes, and the effect of aflatoxin exposure on infant growth.
Research Summary:
I have spent the past 23 years working in academic and applied positions that integrate public health nutrition and agriculture to improve and promote infant and maternal health. I was a co-investigator of a cluster-randomized trial to assess the effect of aflatoxin exposure on linear growth in infants in central Tanzania. Embedded within the design of this trial were multiple methods to better understand both the biological impact of aflatoxin exposure on growth as well as the pathways through which a complementary feeding intervention could mediate aflatoxin exposure.
I have also worked in the implementation and evaluation of programs to treat severe acute malnutrition (SAM) in young children and the quality of antenatal care delivery. Additional research interests are in the improvement of dietary diversity through the life course, assessment of feeding practices and adherence to these practices, and quality in anthropometry measures in LMICs.