ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0871-0969
ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Callum_Lowe
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=OzAg5TYAAAAJ&hl=en
Callum is a public health researcher publishing in Q1 international journals around the topics of epidemiology of infectious diseases, maternal and child nutrition, and advanced mathematical modelling of neglected tropical diseases. Callum's research aims to better understand the etiology of child malnutrition and model the effects of improved water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) interventions to prevent and eliminate enteric pathogens in low- and middle-income countries.
Recent research:
https://doi.org/10.1111/mcn.13618
Perspective: Connecting the dots between domestic livestock ownership and child linear growth in low- and middle-income countries
Callum Lowe, Haribondhu Sarma, Darren Gray, Matthew Kelly. Published 08 January 2024 in Wiley Maternal & Child Nutrition.
Abstract: Child stunting due to linear growth faltering remains a pervasive issue in low- and middle-income countries. Two schools of thought have existed pertaining to the role of domestic livestock ownership (DLO) in child linear growth. On one hand, it is argued that DLO leads to greater income and financial security, resulting in better child-raising conditions, including greater animal-source food (ASF) consumption, having protective effects towards child stunting. On the other hand, researchers argue that DLO contributes to faecal contamination and transmission of zoonotic enteric infections from animals to children, thus having destructive effects on child growth. Reviews of this association have revealed ambiguous findings. In this perspective, we argue that measuring the association between exposures to domesticated animals and child stunting is difficult and the ambiguous associations revealed are a result of confounding and differences in the management of DLO. We also argue that the increasingly prominent area of research of environmental enteric dysfunction, a sub-clinical condition of the small intestine thought to be due to frequent faecal pathogen exposure and associated with stunting, will be a useful tool to measure the potential destructive effects of DLO on child growth. We present our argument and identify challenges and considerations and directions for future research.
ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Callum_Lowe
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=OzAg5TYAAAAJ&hl=en
Callum is a public health researcher publishing in Q1 international journals around the topics of epidemiology of infectious diseases, maternal and child nutrition, and advanced mathematical modelling of neglected tropical diseases. Callum's research aims to better understand the etiology of child malnutrition and model the effects of improved water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) interventions to prevent and eliminate enteric pathogens in low- and middle-income countries.
Recent research:
https://doi.org/10.1111/mcn.13618
Perspective: Connecting the dots between domestic livestock ownership and child linear growth in low- and middle-income countries
Callum Lowe, Haribondhu Sarma, Darren Gray, Matthew Kelly. Published 08 January 2024 in Wiley Maternal & Child Nutrition.
Abstract: Child stunting due to linear growth faltering remains a pervasive issue in low- and middle-income countries. Two schools of thought have existed pertaining to the role of domestic livestock ownership (DLO) in child linear growth. On one hand, it is argued that DLO leads to greater income and financial security, resulting in better child-raising conditions, including greater animal-source food (ASF) consumption, having protective effects towards child stunting. On the other hand, researchers argue that DLO contributes to faecal contamination and transmission of zoonotic enteric infections from animals to children, thus having destructive effects on child growth. Reviews of this association have revealed ambiguous findings. In this perspective, we argue that measuring the association between exposures to domesticated animals and child stunting is difficult and the ambiguous associations revealed are a result of confounding and differences in the management of DLO. We also argue that the increasingly prominent area of research of environmental enteric dysfunction, a sub-clinical condition of the small intestine thought to be due to frequent faecal pathogen exposure and associated with stunting, will be a useful tool to measure the potential destructive effects of DLO on child growth. We present our argument and identify challenges and considerations and directions for future research.