Research:
Maternal and infant/child nutrition and health, international and community nutrition interventions, methods of assessment of nutritional status, and program monitoring and evaluation

Teaching:
Optimal Nutrition for the Life Span, Public Health Dietetics, Nutritional Epidemiology

Interests:
Dr. Anderson is interested in maternal and child nutrition. He is particularly interested in health promotion related to breastfeeding, child feeding and maternal health. Dr. Anderson is also interested in how early child feeding practices influence the development of chronic diseases and body compostion in later years. He has shown that peer educators markedly improve breastfeeding rates and duration in low-income women in the United States.

Education:

Selected Publications/Presentations:

Hatsu IE, McDougald DM and Anderson AK. Effect of Infant Feeding on Maternal Body Composition. International Breastfeeding Journal 2008; 3:18; doi:10.1186/1746-4358-3-18

Anderson AK, Damio G, Chapman DJ and Perez-Escamilla R. Differential Response to an Exclusive Breastfeeding Peer Counseling Intervention: The Role of Ethniciy. Journal of Human Lactation. 2007; 23(1): 16-23

Anderson AK, Perez-Escamilla and Chapman D. (In Reply) Increased Exclusive Breastfeeding Rates Fall Short of Proposed Healthy People 2010 Goals. Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine. 2006; 160:323-324

Anderson AK, Damio G, Young S, Chapman D, and Perez-Escamilla R. A Randomized Trial Assessing the Efficacy of Peer Counseling on Exclusive Breastfeeding in a Predominantly Latina Low-income Community. Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine. 2005; 159:836-84

Anderson AK, Himmelgreen DA, Peng YK, Segura-Perez S, Perez-Escamilla R. Social Capital and Breastfeeding Initiation among Puerto Rican Women: Protecting infants through human milk: Advancing the scientific evidence. In: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology. 2004; 554:Pg283-286.

Anderson AK, Damio G, Himmelgreen DA, Peng YK, Segura-Perez S, Perez-Escamilla R. Social Capital Acculturation, and Breastfeeding Initiation among Puerto Rican Women in the United States. Journal of Human Lactation. 2004; 20(1):39-45.

Amaning CS, Anderson AK, and Asiedu MS. Eating Habits and Nutritional Status of Children at the Street Academy, Accra, Ghana. Proceedings of the 9th Faculty Colloquium marking the Golden Jubilee Celebration of the University of Ghana. May, 2000;Pg 33-38.

Asiedu MS, Abankwa K, and Anderson AK. Nutritional Evaluation fo Fast Foods in Accra, Ghana. Proceedings of the 9th Faculty Colloquium marking the Golden Jubilee Celebration of the University of Ghana. May, 2000;Pg 39-44.