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Peter R. Berti, PhD
Deputy Director / Nutrition Advisor
Dr. Berti joined HealthBridge (formerly PATH Canada) in 1998. As Nutrition Advisor he is responsible for ensuring the technical quality of all HealthBridge's work in food and nutrition research and programming. Much of his work has been in the Americas (Ecuador, Bolivia and Brazil) where he has conducted research and managed programmes in food fortification, nutritional assessment, and risk analysis and management, and now his work emphasizes food system research, especially the
integration of food and nutrition interventions with agriculture interventions. He brings to his work a command of data analysis, which enables novel insight into program evaluation, such as the analyses
showing the impact of an integrated nutrition and agriculture intervention in Malawi, the adequacy evaluation of a large scale World Vision intervention, and the widely cited review of nutrition impacts of
agriculture programs.
Current Projects
BOLIVIA: Peter works closely with partners at World Neighbors in Bolivia to improve the health of the rural poor in northern Potosi. This is one of the poorest areas in the world with a harsh climate and difficult farming conditions. Despite the difficulties we see great promise through innovative work to improve the feeding behaviours of young children. Click here or here to learn more about the work and click here to support the work.
ECUADOR: In partnership with the Ecuadorian NGO, EkoRural, Peter is working towards
developing a healthier food system in Ecuador. There is work on farms to improve
water mangement in arid regions, work with families to make healthier food choices,
and work with Canastas Comunitarias (ecological, financial and health motivated food
buying co-
RWANDA: HarvestPlus is in the process of developing an iron-
MOBILE TECHNOLOGY: Over the last two years HealthBridge has gained expertise in conducting
large scale health surveys using handheld computers (PDAs), for example see our recent publication.
Peter, along with colleague Jim Klass of DevEd Inc, are now developing a on-
Key Publications
Cruz Agudo Y, Jones AD, Berti PR, Larrea Macías S (2010), Prácticas de lactancia
materna, alimentación complementaria y cuidados del infante en Potosí, Bolivia. [Breastfeeding,
complementary feeding and child care practices in Potosí, Bolivia]. Archivos Latina
American de Nutricion. 60(1):7-
Berti PR, Mildon A, Siekmans K, Main B, Macdonald C (2010), An Adequacy Evaluation
of a ten year, four country Nutrition and Health Program. International Journal of
Epidemiology 39:613-
Berti PR, Soueida R, Kuhnlein HV (2008), Dietary assessment of indigenous Canadian
Arctic women with focus on pregnancy and lactation . International Journal of Circumpolar
Health 67(4): 349-
Bezner Kerr R, Berti PR, Chirwa M. (2007), Breastfeeding and complementary feeding
practices in Malawi: timing, reasons, decision makers, and child health consequences . Food
and Nutrition Bulletin28:90-
Berti PR, Krasevec J, FitzGerald S (2004), A review of the effectiveness of agriculture interventions in improving nutrition outcomes. Public Health Nutrition 7:599–609.
Canada office
Berti PR, Jones AD, Cruz Agudo Y, Larrea Macías S, Borja R, Sherwood SG. Dietary assessment in an isolated Andean population: Current inadequacies and scope for improvement using locally available resources. American Journal of Human Biology. 22:741–749.
Bezner Kerr R, Berti PR, Shumba L. Effects of Participatory Agriculture and Nutrition project on Child Growth in Northern Malawi. Public Health Nutrition. doi:10.1017/S1368980010002545.
