/ 18 March 2025

Addressing undernutrition in children may improve vaccine efficacy, UP-US  study finds

Dr Brenda Eskenazi

Name of faculty and department: Center for Environmental Research and Children’s Health, University of California, Berkeley

Name of 1st author: Brenda Eskenazi

Email of 1st author: [email protected]

Name of additional Authors: Brenda Eskenazi, Stephen Rauch, Basant Elsiwi, Riana Bornman (UP), Muvhulawa Obida, Angela Brewer, Brian J. Ward, Jonathan Chevrier

Submitting authority – Faculty of Health Sciences

Name of ‘submitter’ – Prof Tiaan de Jager

Email of ‘submitter’ – [email protected]

Short description of the research

California/ Pretoria – A new study by researchers at the University of Pretoria (UP), McGill University and the  University of California’s Berkeley School of Public Health in the US has found that undernutrition may play an  important role in measles outbreaks in low- and middle-income countries, even among children who have been fully vaccinated.

To read the full paper click here: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0264410X24012465?dgcid=author