PROFILES (1992 - ongoing)

Project Website: http://www.aedprofiles.org/

PROFILES is a participatory advocacy process that uses interactive computer-based models to project the functional consequences of poor nutrition on important development outcomes such as mortality, morbidity, fertility, school performance, and labor productivity. PROFILES also estimates the costs and benefits of nutrition programs in a given country. Created to communicate with policymakers, PROFILES offers a way to engage national leaders in policy dialogue about public health nutrition. PROFILES encourages program planners to examine potential payoffs of alternative program approaches. By learning to manipulate models and by becoming familiar with the supporting scientific literature, users gain an appreciation of the different functional consequences of malnutrition and the role of various interventions. Since 1992, when PROFILES was first introduced in Bangladesh, the process has been used in 34 countries to support specific policy changes.

Health Areas
Infant and young child feeding, Nutrition and HIV/AIDS, Micronutrients and fortification, Adolescent and women's nutrition, Infant feeding and HIV/AIDS, Nutrition-related chronic disease.

Behavior Change Strategies or Processes
Nutrition assessment & surveillance, Policy analysis & advocacy.

Project Director
Helen Stiefel Heymann

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