Child Health, Nutrition & Growth Metric Task Force
Protecting child health and preventing malnutrition through systematic growth monitoring and therapeutic nutrition programs.
Unit Mission
The Child Health, Nutrition & Growth Metric Task Force protects child health and prevents malnutrition in humanitarian and resource-limited settings — conducting systematic growth monitoring, identifying acute and chronic malnutrition, and implementing therapeutic nutrition programs that prevent the stunting, wasting, and micronutrient deficiencies that impair child development and survival. The task force applies pediatric nutrition, community health, and humanitarian response to deliver the integrated child health and nutrition services needed to protect the most vulnerable children.
Key Functions
Malnutrition Screening
Conducting systematic malnutrition screening — measuring mid-upper arm circumference, weight-for-height, and other anthropometric indicators to identify children with acute malnutrition requiring therapeutic feeding.
Therapeutic Feeding
Managing therapeutic feeding programs — delivering ready-to-use therapeutic food, inpatient therapeutic feeding, and supplementary feeding to treat severe and moderate acute malnutrition and prevent malnutrition-related mortality.
Nutrition Surveillance
Operating nutrition surveillance systems — monitoring malnutrition prevalence, tracking program coverage, and providing the nutrition intelligence needed to allocate resources and evaluate program effectiveness.
Operational Capabilities
Health Security, Bio-Risk & Humanitarian Medicine Directorate
Join This Unit
Pacific 7.0 International recruits medical professionals, epidemiologists, public health specialists, and humanitarian health workers committed to protecting lives in the world's most challenging environments.