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The University of Bonn is one of only 11 German Universities of Excellence and the only German university with six Clusters of Excellence. With a strong record of disciplinary excellence and a number of Transdisciplinary Research Areas, the University of Bonn supports the achievement of excellence – since 1818. The University of Bonn has a 200-year history of combining excellent research in a range of disciplines with research-led teaching. Recent decades have seen us produce more winners of the Nobel Prize and Fields Medal than any other German university. With some 32,000 students, 6,600 doctoral students, 700 professors and 7,000 other members of staff, the University of Bonn is one of the largest and best research-led universities in Germany. Its seven faculties cover a broad range of disciplines from Agricultural Sciences to Traffic Psychology many of which take a leading position in international rankings. This strong disciplinary record is supplemented by the work of six faculty and interdisciplinary “Transdisciplinary Research Areas” (TRA) and a range of exploration and innovation areas addressing many of the central academic, technological and social challenges currently facing society. At University of Bonn, the Center for Development Research (ZEF) aims to find science-based solutions to promote sustainable development and planetary health. The division “Nutrition and Planetary Health” at ZEF leads the Work Package “Mapping and Monitoring Diversity of Diets across Sub-Saharan Africa” in the H4DA project.

In the project, The University of Bonn has the main goal to characterize the diversity of diets across sub-Saharan Africa for different age groups, genders, locations, and socio-economic levels, and determine the changes of the identified dietary patterns across the project’s study locations. To achieve our specific objectives, we execute the following tasks:

• Data cleaning, plausibility checks and multiple imputations of dietary data from half a million people in 24 sub-Saharan African countries;
• Select dietary diversity measures to track changes upon dietary interventions in selected sub-Saharan Africa;
• Assess the usual diet of the project’s study populations (baseline) and calculate the distribution of the diversity indices; and
• Assess the dietary intakes of the project’s study populations (endline) and calculate the intervention effects on diversity indices